Diora ZIYAEVA

Diora Ziyaeva is a Partner at Dentons New York. Her practice focuses on investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, complex commercial litigation, and public international law.

Dual qualified in Uzbekistan and New York, she has 14 years of experience successfully representing sovereign states and corporate clients in over 30 significant international arbitration proceedings. Diora has been recognized as a "Future Leader" in arbitration by Who's Who Legal, and as one of the American Bar Association's On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers.

In addition, she is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member, a certified mediator, arbitrator, and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches investor-state arbitration.