Howard Sapers

Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa, Former Correctional Investigator of Canada, Canada

Howard Sapers professional experience includes work in public policy, with a focus on justice, corrections, oversight, and accountability. He currently consults domestically and internationally on human rights and criminal justice, correctional policy and practice, the prevention of deaths in custody, and the intersection between mental health and criminal justice.  
Between 2004 and 2016 Howard Sapers was the Correctional Investigator of Canada.  Mr. Sapers has served as the Executive Director of the John Howard Society of Alberta, an elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Director of Canada’s National Crime Prevention Centre Investment Fund and Vice Chairperson (Prairie Region) of Parole Board Canada. Between 2012 and 2016, Mr. Sapers was a North American representative to the International Ombudsman Institute.  In 2017, Mr. Sapers was appointed by the Ontario government to conduct a two-year independent review of Ontario Corrections. On April 15, 2021, the federal Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness appointed Mr. Sapers Chair of the Structured Intervention Units Implementation Advisory Panel.  
Mr. Sapers is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Criminology and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa Department of Criminology. Mr. Sapers is currently a member of the Canadian FASD Research Network Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and a member of the Legal Aid Ontario Prison Law Advisory Committee. In 2016, he received an Honourary Doctor of Laws from the University of Ottawa.

Simon Bonk

Chief Research Officer, Telio, Canada

Terry Hackett

Senior Associate/Co-founder and Principal, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR)/ Praesora Consulting

Terry Hackett assumed the post of Head of the Persons Deprived of Liberty Unit for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva in February 2022. Terry joined the ICRC in 2018 as a Prison System Adviser following a 22-year career with the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) where he began his career as a Correctional Officer and retired as the as the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Operations (Pacific). During his tenure with CSC, Terry held various positions including Director of Operations (Pacific) and Warden of several federal institutions.

Terry holds a Masters of Arts in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University (RRU) with a focus on rule of law and post-conflict correctional reform, as well as a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Trinity Western University. He is currently completing his Masters of Advanced Studies in International Law in Armed Conflict from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

Caron McCaffrey

President, EuroPris, Ireland