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Angela Conway

Angela Conway

Angela globally recognized leader in catalyzing opportunity for women and in transformation of legal systems, institutions, services, and professionals.

A social entrepreneur, nonprofit executive, international development leader, and attorney, she leads systems change at the intersection of AI and law and works to catalyze an AI era of law where women and justice thrive.

She has led pioneering initiatives in over 30 countries to capacitate large scale legal and justice systems change, advance justice, rule of law, and gender equality during moments of historic change.

She has served as trusted cabinet-level advisor who has counseled and worked alongside dozens of Ministers of Justice, Chief Justices, Attorney Generals, and other cabinet level officials on legal system transformation and supported them in bringing new ideas, policies, systems, institutions, and solutions to life.  She has supported over 50 government institutions and judicial bodies with policy reform and institutional transformation. She has also advised law deans, faculty, national professional training bodies, bar presidents and executive leaders of over 60 civil society organizations.

Prior to founding the Lady Justice Initiative, Angela served as a senior executive leader at the American Bar Association where she founded, built, scaled, and led its Middle East and North Africa Initiative across 19 countries,  forging partnerships with governments, business, civil society, and higher education institutions, establishing offices and teams in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Netherlands, Oman, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen, and leading research, design, resource mobilization, and implementation of over 140 groundbreaking initiatives, which advanced the rule of law, democracy, gender equality, justice, and good governance throughout the region. She raised and managed over $150 million in program funding from the US and other governments. Her work included: leading the building of 4 novel public interest technology platforms  one of which helped refugees living in Turkey gain access to legal information and services and transforming higher and professional legal education and skills training in MENA by leading collaborations with 48 institutions to  integrate experiential and competency-based learning for law students, lawyers, judges, court clerks, and prosecutors, leading pioneering research on the status of women, rule of law, justice, human rights, and legal education, and helping establish 6 NGOs and networks of women lawyers and judges.

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  • Organization
    Lady Justice Initiative, Inc.
  • Profession
    Founder & CEO
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