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* '''James Chegwidden''' is a barrister at Old Square Chambers, London. Old Square is a Band-1 ranked chambers in the fields of employment/equality law and is highly rated in the fields of clinical negligence and personal injury. James frequently acts for governmental agencies, including the Secretary of State for Health, the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and also for private individuals. In 2010, James worked as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg and prior to call to the Bar was Associate to Mr Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia. He was appointed Attorney General’s Counsel to the Crown in 2013. On issues of genital cutting, James was one of the most cited-participants in the State of Tasmania’s consultation on non-therapeutic circumcision of boys (2009); he acted as legal advisor to a delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the subject of genital cutting (2013); and most recently in 2015, James was junior counsel for the mother in the recent High Court (England and Wales) case of ''Re L & B'' on infant circumcision.London, UK.
* '''John Dalton''' is the lead researcher and archivist for [[Genital Autonomy ]] and [[15 Square]]. He lives in Cumbria where he was born and was educated at Dundee and St Andrews Universities. He is a semi-retired nuclear safety consultant and a lay member of an NHS research ethics committee. He has a long-standing interest in the subject of genital cutting and has amassed an archive of over 6,000 documents related to the issue. Cumbria, UK.
* '''[[Richard Duncker]]''' was born in Jamaica, educated in the UK attaining a degree in Fine Art and has spent most of his working life in editing documentaries and current affairs programmes for TV in the UK. In recent years, he has worked as a snowboard instructor and Yoga teacher, specialising in classes for older people. In 2004, Richard came across the NORM-UK web site and realised that his negative feelings regarding genital cutting were in fact a normal reaction to a very definite insult. As a victim turned activist, he has used his knowledge of the media to try and raise the profile of an assault on children that should not be tolerated by a society that purports to respect children’s rights. London, UK.
* '''Fae Garland''' is a lecturer of law at the {{UNI|University of Manchester|UOM}}. She has been published in ''Edinburgh Law Review'', ''New Zealand Law Review'' and ''The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law''. She and Mitchell Travis were awarded funding from the Socio-Legal Studies Association’s Small Grant Scheme. The grant enabled interviews to take place with a number of Intersex Organisations from around the world. Participants were asked to reflect on their experiences of law and the future directions that it could take. {{UNI|University of Manchester|UOM}}, UK.
* '''Margaret Green''' is a founder Trustee and the Honorary Treasurer of [[Genital Autonomy]]. Following a music degree, she had a long career as a librarian and manager which culminated in the post of Assistant Director: Libraries, Information & Archives in Stoke-on-Trent and a {{PhD}} in Management Studies. On taking early retirement some years ago, she re-trained in speech-reading, audiology and developmental psychology and began work as a College Lecturer in Lip-reading Skills and Deaf Awareness. For the last six years she has worked exclusively in the charity sector in a variety of roles. She has been organising conferences, workshops and the Symposia since 2008 in tandem with the International Committee. Margaret is hoping that further research might be under-taken on the human rights issues highlighted by GA, on the psychological damage suffered by survivors and how we might influence and train psychologists to put in place some counselling or treatment to help. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
* '''Holly Greenberry''', Co-Founder and Director of intersex UK, is a defender of human rights and an educator. She works to develop the growth of intersex UK as a charity, focusing on intersex education and consultancy. She also supports UK cross-party development, continues work to unify international policy, educates for bodily autonomy, peer support and equality for inter-sexed-bodied children and others.
* '''[[Brendon Marotta]]''' is an award-winning filmmaker from Austin, TX, and a graduate of the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts Film School. The last feature he edited premiered at the Austin Film Festival where it won the Audience Award. For the latest on his current project [[American Circumcision]], visit CircumcisionMovie.com. Austin, Texas, USA.
* '''[[Paul Mason]]''' is the current and foundation Chair of [[Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy]] (AIGA). He is a family law barrister with over three decades’ experience and a member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights. From 2007-2010 he was the Commissioner for Children for the Australian State of Tasmania. In 2008, with Dr '''Comfort Momoh''' of FGM support service FORWARD, he became inaugural joint Patron of UK-based global charity [[Genital Autonomy]]. Since then he has presented local and international papers on the law and universal human right of [[genital autonomy ]] of girls, boys and intersex children. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
* '''Comfort Momoh''' earned her Masters degree from King’s College London ({{UNI|University of London|Lond}}) in Women’s Health and Health Promotion, is a Fellow of Royal College of Midwives (FRCM) and an FGM Consultant/Public Health Specialist with extensive experience of holistic women-centred care. She is a researcher of women’s health and a strong campaigner/supporter against domestic violence and for the eradication of FGM. Comfort established the African Well Woman’s Clinic at Guy’s and St Thomas Foundation Trust in 1997.Comfort acted as an expert witness for the All Party Parliamentary Hearing on Female Genital Mutilation for England and Wales in 2000 and for Scotland in 2005 and represented the World Health Organisation in the World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in October 2009 in South Africa (XIX FIGO). In 2008, she received an award from Queen Elizabeth II of England as a Member of BritishEmpire (MBE) for services for women’s Health and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from {{UNI|Middlesex University|MDX}}. Comfort provides training and conferences at local, national and international levels. She was invited by the Australian Health Minister to present on FGM at their FGM Summit in Canberra in April 2013. She is a visiting lecturer at Kings College London and the London Tropical School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and {{UNI|Middlesex University|MDX}}. In November 2013, Comfort was awarded a scholarship by The Florence Nightingale Foundation Trust in UK to undertake a research study in America. She was included in the 2013 Health Service Journal BME Pioneers list that celebrates the influential leaders working within health care in UK, recognising and celebrating 100 outstanding Nigerians in the UK in the last 100 years, was recognised by HSJ on 9th July 2014 as one of fifty Inspirational Women in Health-care, was included in The 1000 most influential Londoners 2014 and 2015 by the ''London Evening Standard'' and in February 2016 was awarded 2nd prize by the ''British Journal of Midwifery''. She is the editor of ''Female Genital Mutilation'' (2005). London, UK.
* '''Rebecca Roberts''' is the Deputy Director, Marketing and Recruitment, at {{UNI|Keele University|KU}}. She is passionate about developing effective marketing and communications strategies, integrating engaging content and bringing teams together. She enjoys exploring new platforms, ways of doing things and making sure ideas transform into imaginative, impactful and exciting work. Rebecca is experienced in high performance sport, working across media, marketing and PR, and more recently moved into Higher Education. She believes in bringing the best out of the toughest challenges and people. {{UNI|Keele University|KU}}, UK.
* '''[[Lloyd Schofield]]''' was a proponent for the San Francisco Male Genital Mutilation Initiative, which received nearly double the amount of signatures required for the 2012 ballot in the City and County of San Francisco. The initiative was removed from the ballot on a technicality as the result of a concerted lobbying effort conducted by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the American Civil Liberties Union. He is the current President of the Bay Area Intactivists, a grassroots 501(c)(3) charitable organization, which works to protect and defend the [[genital autonomy ]] of all individuals, male, female and intersex, from forced genital mutilation through education, expanding visibility, creating forums and working with other human rights organizations. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''[[David Smith]]''' is the Chief Officer of [[Genital Autonomy]]. He qualified in business studies and worked for a number of international companies before joining the charity sector in 2002. David was one of the founders of [[Genital Autonomy ]] in 2008. As well as working for [[Genital Autonomy]], he is also the General Manager of [[15 Square]], a charity helping men who have been damaged by [[circumcision]]. Previously he worked for Re-Solv, a charity dealing with problems caused by solvent abuse. He is a lay representative at the {{UNI|Keele University|KU}} School of Medicine. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
* '''Rebecca Steinfeld''', a political scientist researching the politics of reproduction and genital alteration, is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of the Body at Goldsmiths, {{UNI|University of London|Lond}}. She is writing her first book, entitled ''Wars of the Wombs: Struggles over Reproduction in Israel'', for publication with {{UNI|Stanford University|SU}} Press. Rebecca has written and broadcast widely on male circumcision, including in ''The Guardian'', ''Haaretz'' and on BBC Radio 3. Most recently, she has been working with bioethicist [[Brian D. Earp| Brian Earp]] at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, where they have been critiquing the contrasting global policies towards female and male genital alteration. Rebecca is also co-founder, with her partner Charles Keidan, of the Campaign for Equal Civil Partnerships in the UK, as well as co-litigants in a Judicial Review challenge to the Government’s ban on different-sex couples’ access to civil partnerships. These experiences have given her insights into the power and problems of using litigation to generate political change. London, UK.
* '''Michael Thomson''' is a Professor of Law at the {{UNI|University of Leeds|ULeeds}}. He is a health lawyer with particular interests in children’s rights, the regulation of reproduction and the medical profession and theories and practices of embodiment. He is the author of a number of books on the body and gender as well as numerous articles that explore the shaping of children’s bodies and when and how we should limit parental choices and actions. He is Chair of [[Genital Autonomy]]. Leeds, UK.
* '''Tiina Vilponen''' is a sexuality therapist and secular theologian. She works as a Communications Manager in [[Sexpo Foundation]] which specialises in training, counselling, therapy and politics in the field of sexuality and relationships. She is also the vice president of the Finnish Humanist Association. Helsinki, Finland.
::''David Smith''
The proceedings of the [[Fourteenth International Symposium ]] on Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights, held at the {{UNI|University of Keele|KU}} in Staffordshire, England, UK (2016), have not been published.
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