Dr. Diora Ziyaeva is a Partner and U.S. Co-Lead of Mining & Natural Resources at Dentons LLP in New York. Licensed in New York and Uzbekistan and fluent in seven languages, Diora is recognized within the legal community as one of the top international lawyers of her generation. Diora has been practicing international arbitration for over 17 years, representing parties before international tribunals all over the world. She is the ICC International Court of Arbitration Member and has been named last year a Global Elite Thought Leader by Lexology and Global Arbitration Review. Her main areas of practice include Investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, complex commercial litigation, and public international law. In 2024, she was named a “Rising Star” by New York Law Journal, an award which recognizes lawyers who have “made a remarkable difference in the legal profession”. In 2023 she was also recognized by Law360 as one of the international arbitration law practitioners “Rising Stars”. She sits as arbitrator and serves as counsel in a broad range of international matters and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Diora teaches the International Arbitration at Cornell Law School, and is the first female from the Republic of Uzbekistan to graduate from Harvard Law School.
