ACFE Faculty

Bret Hood, CFE
Director, 21st Century Learning & Consulting
Retired FBI Supervisory Agent for the FBI Academy’s Leadership & Communications

Retired Special Agent (SA) Bret Hood is a 25-year veteran of the FBI. In his time with the FBI, Bret worked significant and high-profile white-collar, money laundering, public corruption, counter-terrorism, and organized crime cases. For his last 15 years, Hood was a master instructor for the FBI. In 2012, he accepted a position to serve as an adjunct professor of leadership and ethics at the University of Virginia while working at the FBI National Academy. Since retirement in 2016, Bret has served as the director of 21st Century Learning & Consulting LLC providing consulting and instructional services to organizations around the world.