Dr Judy Kuriansky
Clinical Psychologist at Columbia University Teachers College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA

Ph.D. or “Dr Judy”, as she is fondly called by her millions of fans, is an internationally respected clinical psychologist, certified sex therapist, journalist, radio advice host, TV commentator, popular lecturer, newspaper columnist, and author of many books on sex and relationships. She is a pioneer of radio call-in advice and Internet advice, and a frequent commentator on international media --including CNN -- on various news issues.

Dr Judy is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University Teachers College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons’ Adjunct Faculty, and Visiting Professor of Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Hong Kong. She helped pioneer a sexuality hotline in China and has conducted many trainings about sexuality over more than a decade throughout China (including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, and Nanning) as well as worldwide (from Brazil and Argentina to Singapore, India and Iran).

A Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology and Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Sexology and awarded the AACS Medal of Sexology for Lifetime Achievement, she is a veteran sexuality educator and therapist, a teacher and clinician for individuals, couples, and groups across the country and the world. A past Board member of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and a co-founder of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research, she has authored hundreds of articles in professional journals and mass market publications about sexuality. A feature columnist for years for the South China Morning Post and China Trends Health Magazine as well as the Straits Times, Dr Judy had authored many books including “Generation Sex” and her most recent work on sexuality education is the four-volume set titled “Sexuality Education: Past, Present, and Future [Sex, Love, and Psychology]” (Praeger; 2009) co-edited with Elizabeth Schroeder, EdD, MSW.

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Dr Jacques Boulet   
Head of OASES Graduate School, Australia

Dr Jacques Boulet has studied, worked and lived in five continents, starting in his native Flemish Belgium - where he obtained his Social Work Undergraduate Degree in 1965. He then worked for 3 years as a volunteer in a major Community Development project in the Congo and subsequently did a Post-Graduate Diploma in Community Development and Social Planning at the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague (Netherlands). He then taught in the context of Social Work education programs in Germany throughout the seventies also being involved in several grassroots community projects and processes. From 1980 to 1985, he studied and worked at the University of Michigan (US), finishing his MSW and PhD (in Social Work and Sociology/Social Psychology) before coming to live and work in Australia. He became Senior Lecturer (at Melbourne University) and Associate Professor (at RMIT University) between 1985 and 1996, leaving academia to start a local community learning centre, the Borderlands Cooperative, in 1997, which represents a mixture of community activism, learning and research/consultancy centre and 'incubation space' for good ideas. Intermittently, he has been involved in ongoing projects in Africa and in Hong Kong, drawing from his major areas of interest: community development, curriculum development, social context and ‘micro-processes’, relationships, cross-cultural learning, participatory research and learning processes. With Borderlands, Jacques is involved in consulting work and has worked in community health, local government policy development, community arts, volunteering support and a broad range of organizational development projects. At present, he is the Head of School of a post-graduate program of integrative and transformative studies, oases,based on and aiming at the integration of the social, ecological, spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of our existence towards involvement in transformative work and action.

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Dr Debbie Ollis
Senior Lecturer in Health Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Dr Debbie Ollis has been working in the sexuality education field for the past 23 years as a secondary school teacher, curriculum consultant, government policy officer, teacher educator, writer and researcher. She has a national reputation for her work in health and sexuality education. Her significant contributions to the research field have been the impact of curriculum on young women’s resilience and understanding of gender and violence; doctoral research on sexuality education and improving teacher practice; and in her work on disengaged young women and their experience of school based health and sexuality education. In addition Debbie has been principal author of two Australian government funded national frameworks in the field, The Gender and Violence Position Paper (1993) and Talking Sexual Health National Framework for Education about STI’s, HIV/AIDS and Blood-Bourne Viruses in Secondary Schools (1999). She has been a member of research teams at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (La Trobe University); the Centre for Adolescent Health (Melbourne University) and the Centre for Educational Futures and Innovation (Deakin University). Her other important contribution to the research field has been in translating the research in the field into practice in the development of teacher professional development materials and programs, and school based curriculum resources in sexuality education. Her current work is in the development of whole school approaches to ‘respectful relationships’ focusing on addressing gendered based violence.

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Prof Peng Xiao-Hui
Professor of Human Sexuality, Life Science College of Huazhong Normal University, China

Prof Peng had been teaching anatomy, histology, sport anatomy, physiology, comparative anatomy of nerve and forensic science in Biology Department Huazhong Normal University, and Chemical and Biological Department of Tibet University, China. Since 1992, he has been teaching in sexual biology, introduction to sexology, psychology of sex, sociology of sex, education of sexuality and human sexuality in Huazhong Normal University, China. Prof Peng is also the associate secretary-general of World Association of Chinese Sexologists（WACS）, editor in chief of Chinese Sexuality Research, and council member of China Sexology Association（CSA）with specialist committee membership.

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Prof Deng Ming-Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
President, Institute for Oriental Western Human Sexuality in USA.

Prof Deng had worked 25 years in human sexuality and sexual education field. He held Secretary-general of Foundational committee of China Sexology Association from 1986 to 1994. He was initiatory member of Asian Federation for Sexology in 1991 and was individual member of World Association for Sexology (as World Association for Sexual Health) in 1998 (only a sexologist in China-mainland). He held vice president and Secretary-general of International Society of Chinese Sexology (as International Society of Chinese Sexual Health). On 2000, Prof Deng was immigrating to New York in USA; he organized long-term international academic exchange and cooperation for Chinese sexologists in China-mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, America and other countries. He is also the president of International Society of Chinese Sexuality Health and the vice-president of World Association of Chinese Sexologists.

Since 1987, Prof Deng has published more than 30 academic books, such as: <Research of Sexual Psychology>, < Sexual Mental Health>, <Clinic Sexual Psychology General Information> <China Sexology>, <The Enlighten Education of Children Sex Knowledge>, <Self-regulation for Sexual Function>, <Collection Books of Sex Counseling>, <Sex Guide in Newly-married> , <Sexual Education of Adolescence>, <Practical Sexual Medicine>, <Psychosexual Counseling and Sex Therapy>, <Nowadays Sexuality Education in America>, <Sexuality Education: China and America>, <Sex Disorder and Psychosexual Health>, et al. He has appeared about 200 science papers of human sexuality and sexuality education.

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Prof Zhang Mei-mei
Associate Professor, Sexuality Education and Research Centre, Capital Normal University, China

Prof Zhang is the deputy director of Sexuality Education and Research Center, Capital Normal University, China, and the vice-chairman of Beijing Sexuality Health Education and Research Association

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Prof Yen-Chin Lin
Dean & Professor, Graduate School of Human Sexuality, Shu-Te University, Taiwan

Prof Lin had authored many articles in professional journals and conferences about sexuality, and she had also authored many books in Taiwan including “Sex communication”, "Human Sexuality","Sexual Education Manual on Campus","Sexual Education for Preschool Kids","Talk About Your Mind and Sex" etc.

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Mr Yukihiro Murase
Representative, The Council for Education and Study on Human Sexuality, Japan

Mr Yukihiro Murase is the representative of The Council for Education and Study on Humans and Sexuality, and counsel member of Japan Society of Adolescentology. He has 25 years of teaching experience in high school, and he is now the instructor of Hitotsubashi University and Tsuda College in Japan teaching sexology and sexuality education.   

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Prof Kevan Wylie
Vice-President, World Association for Sexual Health

Kevan Wylie qualified in medicine MB ChB in Liverpool in 1985, obtained his Masters in Leeds (1991) and the Diploma in Therapy with Couples (1993) and Diploma in Sexual Medicine (1994) at the University of London. He obtained his Doctorate MD in couples sex therapy in 1999. He is elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists . Kevan has worked full time in sexual medicine from June 1999 across two trusts as Clinical Lead for Porterbrook clinic and Consultant Lead for andrology (urology) at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. Kevan is adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and acts as honorary international consultant to the Global Sex Research Forum and visiting professor at Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia. Kevan was awarded the EFS Gold Medal in 2008 for his work into sexual medicine, sexology and sex education across Europe. Kevan is regularly invited to speak at international meetings as diverse as San Diego, Tehran, Yerevan and Beijing. Kevan was Chairman of the British Society for Sexual Medicine (2007-2009), is Vice President of WAS (2009-2013), treasurer of ISSWSH (2009-2011) and on the board of directors of WPATH (2009-2013). Kevan is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Dr Wylie is a trustee of the patient charity the Sexual Advice Association.

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