Priya Aiyar serves as the Chief Legal Officer for 51动漫. Discovery where she leads the company鈥檚 global legal organization and strategy.
Aiyar, who has noteworthy experience guiding businesses and public-sector organizations as well as a personal focus on building relationships and driving collaboration, joined WBD in February 2025 and reports directly to WBD鈥檚 Chief Executive Officer, David Zaslav.
She previously served as Chief Legal Officer for American Airlines and as a key advisor to their board. In that role, she was responsible for the airline鈥檚 legal affairs and strategies globally, as well as labor relations. Aiyar played a pivotal role in American鈥檚 navigation of the COVID-19 pandemic, subsequent return to profitability, and achievement of milestone new contracts with its unionized work groups.
Before joining American Airlines in 2019, Aiyar held several senior roles both at law firms and in the public sector. From 2013 to 2017, Aiyar was the Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and earlier served as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Aiyar received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, a master鈥檚 degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Harvard University.