Samir Aliyev is the Founder and CEO of the Swiss Cyber Institute in Zurich which offers cyber security and AI education programs, training, and access to a global cyber security community while chairing the Global Cyber Conference that builds bridges between security professionals, business experts, and academics.

Since 2018, Samir Aliyev has developed the CAS Data Protection Officer and CAS Cyber Security for Executives (CSF-HSG) programmes. He is also programme director and lecturer in CAS Cyber Security for Executives at the Executive School of Management, Technology and Law at the University of St. Gallen.

Samir has been a member of the National Cyber Security Committee at digitalswitzerland since 2023. Previously, he was a cybersecurity training expert at expert group meetings in Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and Latin America for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

According to BILANZ Wirtschaftsmagazin, Samir Aliyev is one of Switzerland’s leading trainers of cybersecurity executives and experts and was named a Digital Shaper 2023 and 2026. He is a doctoral researcher in AI Governance at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.