Michael W. Marine, a former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, was appointed CEO of the Sabin Vaccine Institute in April 2010. Marine joined Sabin's leadership team in December 2009 after serving 8 months on the Joint Action Committee of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an advocacy and resource mobilization initiative of Sabin. He was a member of the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service for 32 years.