Terry Hackett has served as the Head of the Persons Deprived of Liberty Unit for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva since 2022. Terry joined the ICRC in 2018 as a Prison System Adviser following a 22-year career with the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and retired as the as the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Operations (Pacific).  Over the past 15 years, he has worked with various detaining authorities around the world to support efforts to ensure the treatment of detainees and conditions of detention are improved in line with international standards. Terry holds a Master of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University (RRU), Master of Advanced Studies in International Law in Armed Conflict from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Trinity Western University.