Diora Ziyaeva

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Ms. Diora Ziyaeva served as an Associate, International Arbitration Group at Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle. She is an associate in the International Arbitration and Corporate groups. Her practice focuses on investor-state arbitration, commercial arbitration and on issues and disputes relating to public international law, as well as corporate law with an emphasis on the oil and gas sector. She has been involved in several important proceedings under the rules of the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), including proceedings relating to the energy sector and involving states and state-owned entities. Prior to joining Curtis, Ms. Ziyaeva worked as a research analyst with the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., focusing on Eurasian economic and energy policy issues. In Uzbekistan, as part of her undergraduate legal studies, she interned with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where she assisted international investors in developing new commercial opportunities. In addition to that she served as a Legal Clerk for the Constitutional Court of Uzbekistan and a Legal Associate at the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.