Teresa Hackett is the Manager of eIFL-IP "Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: Copyright and Libraries", a programme of eIFL.net, an international consortium that supports and advocates for the wide availability of electronic resources by library users in developing and transition countries.  The eIFL-IP programme seeks to protect and promote the interests of eIFL libraries and their users in copyright issues at national level and in international policy fora.

Teresa was the Director of the European library association (EBLIDA) from 2000-2003; before that provided technical support to the European Commission library research programme, and was part of the team to establish electronic information centres at the British Council in Germany.  Teresa has a special interest in legal issues in information work, especially in the electronic environment.  She is currently a member of the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-CLM).  Teresa is a chartered librarian and in 2004 completed a post-graduate diploma in legal studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology.  Teresa is a native English speaker and speaks Irish, German and Dutch.