Founder/ Executive DirectorBarefootLaw
Gerald Abila is an American Bar Association Legal Rebel and a pioneer of the Legaltech/ Innovation movement in Africa. He founded BarefootLaw which, through the innovative use of digital technology, empowers people to develop legal solutions for their justice needs.
He is steadfast in the belief that access to the law for all is fundamental to a just and equitable society and new technologies play a significant role towards this.
He was named a Legal Rebel by the American Bar Association for his use in using technology to transform global legal practice. Other honors include the 100 leading Legal Consultants and Strategists in the world for 2018 by the Law Dragon in New York, Echoing Green fellow, Draper Richards Kaplan entrepreneur, and a Laurette of the Africa Development Prize by the King Baudouin Foundation. He was recently named a Rainer Arnhold Fellow by the Mulago Foundation.
In addition to BarefootLaw, Gerald likes to solve problems, teach the law, speak about the law and technology and how these can be used to meet the global goals more so SGD16.