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* '''Martti Laiti''', a sales manager in the metal industry,was born near the Norwegian border in North Finland. He is the husband of Malla Laiti. Vantaa, Finland.
* '''Donna Rigney Macris''', {{RN}}, {{CNM}}, is a decades-long [[human rights]] activist in issues of [[genital integrity]]. She has served on the Board of Directors of NOCIRC, was a co-founder of the International Symposia on Circumcision, and co-authored the ''[[Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision (1989)| Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision]]''. Her writings on the issue of circumcision, the rights of infants and children, and the functions of male genitalia have been published. She has spoken nationally and internationally, promoting conscientious objector status for nurses and midwives in opposition to newborn circumcision. She has been guest faculty in midwifery programs, including {{UNI|Stanford University|SU}}’s ''Women’s Health Care Training Project''. Her Master’s Degree Research at {{UNI|Saint Louis University|SLU}} centered upon [[informed consent ]] for circumcision. Fresno, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''[[Paul Mason]]''' has worked for more than three decades as a family law solicitor and barrister. He was Commissioner for Children for the Australian State of Tasmania 2007-2010. The Commissioner is an appointment notionally independent of the elected Government, responsible for advising it about all matters concerning children and raising public awareness about them. He is deeply committed to the [[human rights]] of children and a strong believer in their capacity to make intelligent contributions to all decisions affecting themselves. In 2009, he became, with Dr. Comfort Momoh, MBE, inaugural co-Patron of the international charity [[Genital Autonomy]]. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
* '''Michael Thomson''' is Professor of Law at {{UNI|Keele University|KU}}. He has published extensively in the areas of Health Care Law and Law and Gender. He is the author of Reproducing Narrative: Gender, Reproduction and Law (Dartmouth, 1998) and Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body (Routledge, 2007). He has published widely on issues relating to the genital cutting of children and, most recently, male genital cutting as a response to [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. He is a trustee for [[Genital Autonomy]]. Staffordshire, UK.
* '''[[Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon]]''' grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household in Brookline, MA. When he was 13 years old, Eliyahu’s family moved to [[Israel]], where he lived until he was 19. In lieu of joining the Israel Defense Forces, Eliyahu decided to enroll in medical school in the United Kingdom. Three years into his {{MD}} degree, he broke his Jewish mother’s heart and decided to abandon Medicine and follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker. He has since earned two degrees from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ''Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision'' is his first feature-length film. Eliyahu is currently putting the finishing touches on his second feature-length film, a documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, called ''A People Without a Land''. Los Angeles, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''Xavier P. Valla''', Licence Histoire de l’Art à la Sorbonne, has been the President of the Association contre la Mutilation des Enfants since 1991, he is a tourist guide in Southeast Asia, and a specialist in Khmer art and history. Paris, France.
* '''Mika Venhola''', {{MD}}, {{PhD}}, is a paediatric surgeon with a keen interest in children ́s rights, especially on intersex and transgender issues. He works in {{UNI|Oulu University|UOFI}} Hospital. Oulu, Finland.
* '''[[Franco Viviani]]''', {{PhD}}, FISPPA, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.
* '''Arja Voipio''', {{MS}}, ({{BA}}), is a [[human rights]] advocate. She has been involved in promoting the [[human rights]] and proper medical care for transgender and intersex people. She is currently the vice chair of Trasek, a Finnish [[human rights]] NGO specialising in transgender and intersex issues. She is also the chair of the transgender working group of Seta, the Finnish LGBTI federation. She has made her professional career in finance, financial supervision, and IT. Helsinki, Finland.
::''Xavier Valla''
* Anthropological Reflections on Genital Interventions
::''[[Franco Viviani]]''
* Female Genital Mutilation
::''Mulki Mölsä1''