Zia Mody is the Founder and Senior Partner of AZB & Partners. She previously worked as a corporate associate at Baker & McKenzie in New York for five years and returned to India to establish the Chambers of Zia Mody in 1984, which then became AZB & Partners in 2004. She is the Deputy Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the HSBC Asia Pacific Board, a member of the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), foreign arbitrator on the Panel of Arbitrators of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), a member of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, Washington D.C. (2008-2013), and a Vice President and Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (2010-2013).