Priya Aiyar serves as the Chief Legal Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery where she leads the company’s 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’s 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’s legal affairs and strategies globally, as well as labor relations. Aiyar played a pivotal role in American’s 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’s degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.