10 Facts About Comfort Momoh

Comfort Momoh is the editor of Female Genital Mutilation.

Comfort Momoh was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian-Ghanaian family.

Comfort Momoh received a Florence Nightingale Foundation scholarship in 2007 to conduct research into FGM in Africa, and in 2015 the foundation awarded her a travel scholarship to visit the United States to study their approach to FGM.

In 1997, Comfort Momoh set up the African Well Women's Clinic at St Thomas's Hospital, dedicated to caring for women affected by FGM.

Comfort Momoh worked as a temporary adviser to the World Health Organization in 1999 and represented the UK at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2001.

Comfort Momoh was included in 2014 in the London Evening Standards list of 1000 most influential people in London.

Comfort Momoh was awarded an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University in 2008.

Comfort Momoh was chosen as 2015 Alumna of the Year by King's College London, and in 2016, she was awarded a fellowship by the Royal College of Midwives.

Newsnight reported that Comfort Momoh had referred to herself as "Dr", although her doctorate is an honorary one, and that during a 2014 court case, the judge, James Munby, had criticized her evidence as unreliable.

Comfort Momoh responded that she had done nothing wrong and had nothing to hide.