Tony Lai is a legal innovator and technology entrepreneur with a passion for unleashing collective potential at both individual and systemic levels. He is a highly experienced lawyer, researcher, and advisor with expertise in blockchain governance, smart contracts, data governance, privacy, intellectual property, and emerging technologies. Tony is a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, a former Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and a Creative Consultant at DSIL Global. He is a co-founder and the former CEO of LawGives, as well as the founder of Legal.io, a company that deploys technology to scale legal access worldwide.

Tony holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford and a Master of Laws degree in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford University. He has consulted for government agencies, startups, and legal service organizations on issues at the intersection of computational law, smart legal contracts, digital identity, and service technologies and protocols. Tony helped design and research the first legal technology course at Stanford Law School and was on the founding team of StartX, the Stanford-affiliated startup accelerator.