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==Faculty==
* '''Sami Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh''', Christian of Palestinian origin, and Swiss citizen, is a Doctor in Law (Fribourg), graduated in political sciences (Geneva), trained to direct research (HDR, Bordeaux 3), and a Professor of Universities (CNU-France). He was responsible for Arab and Islamic Law at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (1980-2009). He is a visiting professor in different French, Italian, and Swiss universities. He is the Director of the Centre of Arab and Islamic Law, author of more than thirty books and many articles on Arab and Islamic Law, including a French translation of the Koran in chronological order, and is now finishing Italian and English translations of the Koran. He is the author of the largest book in Arabic on the male and female circumcision religious, medical, social, and legal debate among Jews, Christians and Muslims, translated into English and French. See his website: www.sami-aldeeb.com for an article in English about him in Wikipedia and his CV in English.
* '''Peter Ball''', MA, MB, BChair, a retired family practitioner, is Vice Chair of NORM-UK and an Intactivist. He has produced a video, Restoration in Focus, to aid men interested in non-surgical restoration and has represented NORM-UK on television and numerous radio stations, including the BBC. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
* ''John Dalton'', BSc, MSc, CRadP is a Safety and Environment consultant working in the nuclear sector. He is a member of one of the UK Health Research Agency’s Research Ethics Committees and a founder Trustee of NORM-UK. Recently he has become a Trustee of Genital Autonomy, and he has had an active role in planning the symposium. Cumbria, UK.
* '''[[Brian Earp]]''' is a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, where he conducts research in psychology, philosophy, and ethics. Brian’s undergraduate degree is from Yale University, where he was elected President of the Yale Philosophy Society and served as Editor-in-Chief of both the ''Yale Philosophy Review'' and the ''International Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology''. His empirical research garnered the Robert G. Crowder Prize from the Department of Psychology, and received coverage by the BBC, ''New Scientist'', and dozens of leading international newspapers, from the ''Times of India'' to the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. Brian’s graduate training is from the University of Oxford, where he was a Henry Fellow at New College, and runner-up for the Demuth Prize in Science Writing. Currently, Brian is guest editing a special issue of the ''Journal of Medical Ethics'' on the topic of religiously motivated circumcision, and with the Chair of Practical Ethics at Oxford, Professor Julian Savulescu, is writing a book on the ethics of neuro-enhancement. Oxford, UK.
* '''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''. 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 Stanford University’s ''Women’s Health Care Training Project''. Her Master’s Degree Research at St. Louis University centered upon informed consent for circumcision. Fresno, California, 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.
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