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* '''Fae Garland''' is a lecturer of law at the {{UNI|University of Manchester|UOM}}. She has been published in ''Edinburgh Law Review'', ''New Zealand Law Review'' and ''The Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law''. She and Mitchell Travis were awarded funding from the Socio-Legal Studies Association’s Small Grant Scheme. The grant enabled interviews to take place with a number of Intersex Organisations from around the world. Participants were asked to reflect on their experiences of law and the future directions that it could take. {{UNI|University of Manchester|UOM}}, 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.
* '''Holly Greenberry''', Co-Founder and Director of intersex UK, is a defender of [[human rights ]] and an educator. She works to develop the growth of intersex UK as a charity, focusing on intersex education and consultancy. She also supports UK cross-party development, continues work to unify international policy, educates for bodily autonomy, peer support and equality for inter-sexed-bodied children and others.
* '''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 {{UNI|Oxford University|Oxon}} 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 {{UNI|University of Surrey|USurrey}} 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.
* '''Comfort Momoh''' earned her Masters degree from King’s College London ({{UNI|University of London|Lond}}) 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 Parliamentary 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 Honorary Doctorate Degree from {{UNI|Middlesex University|MDX}}. 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 {{UNI|Middlesex University|MDX}}. 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 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.
* '''Rebecca Roberts''' is the Deputy Director, Marketing and Recruitment, at {{UNI|Keele University|KU}}. 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. {{UNI|Keele University|KU}}, 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 [[ACLU|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 {{UNI|Keele University|KU}} School of Medicine. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.