Dr. Dinara Ziganshina has been the Deputy Director of the Scientific Information Center of Interstate Commission for Water Coordination in Central Asia, based in Tashkent, for seven years . SIC ICWC is an information and analytical body, which develops methods and approaches of prospective development, improvement of water management and ecological situation in the basin. It is collaborating with a network of scientific and design organizations of the five countries of Central Asia, has national branches in three countries which, in turn, organize scientific and information exchange at the national level.

She served as Alternate Governor of the World Water Council and is currently a member of the Implementation Committee under the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes

Before, she achieved a PhD at the HP-HELP Center for Water Law, Policy and Science at the University of Dundee, United Kingdom. She worked on the law of transboundary watercourses in the Aral Sea Basin shared by Afghanistan and five post-Soviet countries of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – and studied how international law works to address transboundary water challenges in the Aral Sea Basin.