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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.

* '''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.

* '''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.

* '''H Eli Joubert''' completed his clinical training following a career in media where he produced radio and television documentaries in his native South Africa mainly focusing on HIV/Aids education with some of his work mentioned in a report to the United Nations. His first clinical post was in an NHS Sexual Health setting working with men who have male sexual partners before taking on posts in forensic settings, mainly working with sex offenders, both in South Africa and the UK. In 2010, he was appointed a Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Maudsley Hospital Psychosexual Service. In this post he developed placements for trainee clinical psychologists and offered seminars and workshops to trainees from both Kings College and Oxford University as well as qualified psychologists and other mental health professionals. It was whilst working in this post that he gained a professional qualification as EFS/ESSM Certified Psycho-Sexologist in addition to being a Chartered Clinical Psychologist. He also holds several other professional registrations, including Associate Fellow and Registered Supervisor of the British Psychological Society, Practitioner Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council of the UK, Full Member of the College of Sex and Relationship Thera-pists, Member of both the British (BSSM) and European Societies of Sexual Medicine (ESSM) and list of specialist in Gender Dysphoria, UK Ministry of Justice – Gender Recognition Panel. In May 2015, he was appointed as Teaching Fellow (Clinical) at the University of Surrey where he now teaches doctoral trainee clinical psychologists. He has been in private practice, based at London Bridge, since 2012 and continues to do so. Clinically, he works with all psycho-sexual presentations and has a particular interest in gender dysphoria (including medico-legal consultations and reports), paraphilic disorders and adjustment disorder following physical changes to the sexual body, such as circumcision, radical prostatectomy and mastectomy as treatment for cancer and Peyronie’s disease. His research interests include ChemSex, premature ejaculation and sexual consent. Guilford, Surrey, 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.

* '''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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