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* '''Tuomas Kurttila''' is the Ombudsman for Children in Finland. Kurttila holds a Master’s Degree in Administrative Sciences and Theology. Tuomas, born in 1978, has earlier worked at the Ministry of Education as the General Secretary of the Finland’s Advisory Council for Youth Affairs and before starting in his current position as the Executive Director of Finnish Parents’ League. He is a long-time member of the Advisory Council for Children’s Affairs, which supports the Ombudspersons for Children in his or her work. As Ombudsperson for Children, Tuomas has proposed a legislation that forbids the circumcision of boys for non-medical reasons. The Ombudsperson has proposed the initiative to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Currently, the circumcision of underage boys is regulated by a ministerial guideline but not by legislation. According to Kurttila, ministerial guidelines are not sufficient regulatory means since parents are not obliged to ask the children their opinion about circumcision in the current guidelines: the guidelines do not require the explicit consent of the child regarding the measure even though the child is unable to understand the significance of circumcision. According to Kurttila, every child’s right to physical integrity in the country has to be safeguarded. The Ombudsperson for Children in Finland reports annually to the government on the welfare of children and youth and the implementation of their rights. The annual report covers the activities of the Ombudsperson, the implementation of children’s rights, the development of child welfare, and shortcomings in legislation. * '''Antony Lempert''', a GP partner in a rural Welsh border practice, has coordinated and chaired the UK Secular Medical Forum (SMF) since 2008. The SMF campaigns to protect patients from the imposition of other people’s personal beliefs in many areas of medicine, including forced genital cutting. Antony was the GP member of the Powys Local Safeguarding Children’s Board until it reconfigured in 2014. Since 2009, he has attended and spoken regularly at the BMA’s Annual Representatives Meeting and was elected chair of the Shropshire division of the BMA in January 2016. In 2012, Antony was invited to Geneva where he met with the chair and deputy chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) to discuss ritual male circumcision. He has spoken in Brussels at the European Parliament Platform for Secularism in Politics about women’s sexual health rights, has acted as an expert witness in a High Court right to die case and has participated in regular debates, including on radio and television. Powys, Wales. * '''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 (University of London) 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 Parlia-mentary 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 Hon-orary Doctorate Degree from Middlesex University.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 Middlesex University.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. * '''Maryam Namazie''' is a political activist, Spokesperson for Fitnah-Movement for Women’s Liberation, Equal Rights Now, One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. She hosts a weekly television programme in Persian and English, Bread and Roses, broadcast in Iran and the Middle East. She is on the International Advisory Board of the Raif Badawi Founda-tion for Freedom; Humanist Laureate at the International Academy of Humanism; Committee member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran; Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and the Rationalist International; Emeritus Member of the Secular Humanist League of Brazil; a Patron of London Black Atheists and Pink Triangle Trust and a member of the International Advisory Board of Feminist Dissent. She has received many honours and awards. She has spoken and written numerous articles on women’s rights issues, free expression, Islamism and secularism. She has devoted much of her time working for refugees and human rights organizations. London, UK.