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* '''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 Foundation 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.
* '''Tommi Paalanen''' is a Finnish Philosopher and Ethicist, whose major interests are philosophical sexual ethics, professional ethics, philosophy of law, human and sexual rights and sexual politics. He works as the Executive Director in the Sexpo Foundation, which specialises in training sexologists, providing counselling and therapy and engaging in sexual politics in order to advance sexual wellbeing. Tommi’s other notable positions are Chair of the Sexual Rights Committee of The World Association for Sexual Health, Chair of the Ethical Committee of the Nordic As-sociation for Clinical Sexology and Chair of the Committee on Sexual Ethics of the Finnish Association for Sexology among other positions of trust. Tommi is very fond of political activism to advance a positive, open and liberal culture towards sexuality and diversity in society. Helsinki, Finland.
* '''Glen Poole''' is a writer, campaigner and practitioner whose work focuses on a broad range of issues. He is has written and spoken about the issue of male circumcision in the UK for several years, notably in the ''Daily Telegraph'' and on BBC Men’s Hour. Glen relocated to Australia in 2015 and founded the Stop Male Suicide project, an initiative that aims to enhance our capacity to prevent male suicide by improving levels of male suicide literacy at an individual, cultural and systemic level. As an international speaker, Glen has previously presented at a broad range of conferences, including the National Male Psychology Conference in the UK; TEDx LSE in London; the Gulf Comparative Education Society Conference in Dubai; the National Boys Education Conference in Sydney; the National Men’s Health Gatherings in Brisbane and Central Coast and the National Suicide Prevention Conference in Canberra. Sydney, Australia.
* '''Rebecca Roberts''' is the Deputy Director, Marketing and Recruitment, at Keele University. 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. Keele University. 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 Keele University 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, University of London. She is writing her first book, entitled ''Wars of the Wombs: Struggles over Reproduction in Israel'', for publication with Stanford University 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 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 University of Leeds. 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.
* '''Ann-Marie Wilson''', PsyD in Psychology from American Pacific University (2006), graduated with a UK 1st Class Hons Degree in Cross Cultural Studies (Islamics, Gender, Anthropology & Gender) in 2009 and prior to that graduated in Business Studies. She has published papers on FGM in ''Journal of Gender Studies''; Ekklesia Foundation, Kenya; Sexual Violence Research Initiative; and the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine. With more than 30-years’ experience, Ann-Marie founded in 2010 and runs an anti-FGM charity, 28 Too Many (www.28toomany.org), focussed on research, networks, capacity development and advocacy. 28 Too Many works closely with governments, NGOs and UN bodies and is an Associate Member of the UN Inter-African Committee, which has published FGM research reports on ten countries in East and West Africa. London, UK.
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