Alim Aliev

Україна

Deputy General Director of the Ukrainian Institute. Journalist, human rights defender, researcher and curator of educational and cultural projects. Member of the board of the Ukrainian PEN and the International Renaissance Foundation. He worked as a program director of the Crimean House and a media and communications consultant of the expert company pro.mova, co-founder of the public organization "Crimea SOS". Participant and speaker of advocacy missions at the UN, Council of Europe, European Parliament, OSCE, European countries, USA, Brazil, Indonesia, Qatar. The founder of the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar literary project "Crimean Fig", the initiator of the creation of the digital museum of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars "Tamırlar". Co-author of the book "Mustafa Dzhemliev. Unbreakable", author of essays about Crimea, Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian identity during the war in Ukrainian and international publications. Professional activity is focused on the topics of Ukrainian civil society and multiculturalism, development of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar studies abroad, occupied Crimea and the Crimean Tatar people, decolonization, freedom of speech, international representation of modern Ukrainian culture. Graduated from the Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University with the specialty in "Political Sciences". A graduate of the "Responsible Leadership" seminar of Aspen Ukraine, the Open World program and the Summer Institute on Public Diplomacy of the University of Southern California, and the "CEO development program" program at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School. In 2020, he was awarded the Order of Merit, III degree.