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* '''[[Brian Earp]]''' is a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the {{UNI|University of Oxford|Oxon}}, where he conducts research in psychology, philosophy, and ethics. Brian’s undergraduate degree is from {{UNI|Yale University|Yale}}, 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 {{UNI|University of Oxford|Oxon}}, 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.
* '''Morten Frisch''', {{MD}}, {{PhD}}, {{DSc}} (Med), is a full-time re-searcher at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen and an adjunct professor of sexual health epidemiology at {{UNI|Aalborg University|AAU}}, [[Denmark]]. For more than 20 years, he has studied sexual risk factors for and correlates of chronic diseases, as well as sociodemographic, health-related, and lifestyle-related determinants of sexual health and ill-health. In 2011, Frisch and co-authors published a study in the ''International Journal of Epidemiology'' showing a statistically significant excess of sexual problems in circumcised men and their spouses. That study has obtained substantial international attention and was the most heavily debated scientific study during the heated circumcision debate in [[Denmark ]] in the summer of 2012. Copenhagen, [[Denmark]].
* '''[[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, {{USSC|WA}}. 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, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.