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, Pune and Chennai with an integrated team of approximately 250 legal professionals.

Zia's abilities are recognized globally, as is reflected in her appointment as a non-executive director of the HSBC Asia Pacific Board, a member of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, Washington D.C. (2007- 2012), and a Vice President and Member of the London Court of International Arbitration. Zia serves on various advisory committees of the Confederation of Indian Industry including its National Council and its committees on Corporate Governance, Financial Services, Capital Markets, Legal Services and Retail and a member of the Godrej Committee on Corporate Governance recently constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

Listed by Forbes Asia as one of 'Asia's 50 Power Businesswomen' (2012), Zia is the recipient of numerous awards and has been awarded the "Business Woman of the Year, 2010" by the Economic Times, for which she was felicitated by The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) as the "Law Leader 2010".