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* '''[[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.

* '''[[John Geisheker]]''', JD, LLM, a native of New Zealand, is the Executive Director of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] (D.O.C.), an international non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. As Director of D.O.C., he appears at medical and childbirth conventions, as well as educational institutions, presenting on the medical science, bioethics, and legality of merely cultural, non-therapeutic infant genital surgeries. He is the author of numerous publications on the subject. Mr. Geisheker has been a litigator, law lecturer, arbitrator, and mediator, specializing in medical disputes, for 30 years. He is proud that, in the 1960s, his native [[New Zealand]] fully abandoned medicalized infant circumcision as unnecessary-with no detectable loss of child health. Seattle, Washington, USA.

* '''[[Tim Hammond]]''', Director, National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males, and Director, ''Whose Body, Whose Rights?'' Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

* '''[[Frederick M. Hodges]]''', D Phil (Oxon), is a medical historian, the co-author of ''What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision: Untold Facts on America’s Most Widely Performed-and Most Unnecessary-Surgery'' (Warner Books 2002), and co-editor of the proceedings of the International Symposia on Circumcision, including ''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy''; ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''; ''Understanding Circumcision: A MultiDisciplinary Approach to a MultiDimensional Problem''; ''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society''; ''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision, Culture, Controversy, and Change, Circumcision and Human Rights''; ''Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice, and The Rights of the Child: Ensuring Every Child’s Fundamental Right to Body Ownership and Protection from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements'' (In press, Springer). Berkeley, California, USA.

* '''[[Marilyn Fayre Milos| Marilyn Milos]]''', {{RN}}, is the co-founder and Executive Director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and the co-founder and coordinator of the International Symposia on Circumcision, now known as the International Symposia on Law, Genital Autonomy, and Children’s Rights. She is the co-editor of ''[[The Truth Seeker]]'' (July/August 1989 ”Crimes of Genital Mutilation” issue), the core proceedings of the [[First International Symposium]] on Circumcision, and co-editor of eight symposia books (see Hodges bio, page 3). San Anselmo, California, USA.

* '''Husein Muhammed''', born in 1980 in Iraqi Kurdistan, is a Finnish lawyer, Green politician, and author of ''Yhtä erilaiset'' (Equally Different), a book introducing Finnish Muslims. He has previously worked as a lawyer for the Finnish Refugee Advice Center, especially assisting asylum seekers. Currently he is a senior officer at the Office of the Ombudsman for Minorities. Helsinki, Finland.

* '''Lyn Ramsay''', {{RN}}, BHSc (Nursing), MHSc (Primary Health Care) is an Australian human services consultant. She has been a passionate advocate for the rights of children with disability since she registered as a nurse specialising in the area in 1972. She was a lecturer at Southern Cross University in disabilities, natural therapies, holistic health, and spiritual well-being. She has worked in cities and rural areas with people with all forms of disability, as well as indigenous people, other social minorities, and people across the life span from babyhood to death. She consciously detoured off the information highway and does not register on Google, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn! Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

* '''Jonna Roos''', MS, is a sex educator working currently at the University of Helsinki, Palmenia, Centre for Continuing Education. He has been training immigrants as well as people in their workplaces for many years and in many different places. Helsinki, Finland.

* '''Michael Thomson''' is Professor of Law at Keele University. 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.

* '''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.

* '''[[Robert S. Van Howe]]''' is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He has lectured and been published internationally on the topic of circumcision and has been a consultant to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization. Much of his research has focused on secondary research, including meta-analysis and cost-utility analysis. Marquette, Michigan, USA.

* '''Franco Viviani''', PhD, FISPPA, University of Padua. Padua, Italy.

The symposium organisers are [https://sexpo.fi/en/frontpage/ Sexpo Foundation], [http://gaamerica.org/ Genital Autonomy] and the [http://www.nocirc.org/ National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers].

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