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Zia Mody is the Founder and Senior Partner of AZB & Partners and one of India’s foremost corporate attorneys. She passed her law degree from the University of Cambridge in 1978 and was enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa in 1978. She did her LLM from Harvard Law School and was then admitted as a member of the New York State Bar by examination in 1980. Zia worked as a corporate associate at Baker & McKenzie, New York, for five years before moving to India to set up practice, establishing the Chambers of Zia Mody in 1984, which then became AZB & Partners in 2004. The Firm has offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune with an integrated team of approximately 450 legal professionals. She is listed in the top 10 list by Fortune India (2011-2017) in its ‘India's 50 Most Powerful Women in business’ list and in 2018, she was ranked No. 1 in the same list. She was also listed by Forbes Asia as one of ‘Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen’ (2015). Zia is the Deputy Chairman and a Non-Executive Director of the HSBC Asia Pacific Board, was a member of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, Washington D.C. (2008-2013), and was also a Vice President and Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (2010-2013). Zia was also a member of the Committee on Corporate Governance formed by SEBI in June 2017 under the chairmanship of Uday Kotak.