Draft:Alim Aliev

Alim Aliev (Ukrainian — Алім Алієв) is the Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian Institute. Human rights defender, curator of educational and cultural projects, researcher, journalist and essayist. Founder of the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar literary project "Crimean Fig / Qırım inciri". Board member of PEN Ukraine. Co-founder of "CrimeaSOS" NGO. Co-author of a book “Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable” about Crimean Tatars leader. Member of the supervisory boards of several Ukrainian NGO. Previously, he was the program director of the Crimean House, a journalist for the Crimean newspaper "Avdet", and a communications consultant at the pro.mova expert company.

Biography
Alim Aliev was born on August 2, 1988, in the city of Chirchiq, Uzbekistan, because his family was deported there (like the families of all Crimean Tatars) by the Soviet regime in 1944. In 1989, his family returned to Crimea, like most Crimean Tatars.

In 2005, he enrolled at V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University, where he later obtained a master's degree in political science.

He is a graduate of the European Diplomatic Summer School at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and Summer Institute in Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

He graduated from the Open World program in 2014, the "Responsible Leadership" seminar at the Aspen Institute in Ukraine in 2019 and CEO development program at Kyiv Mohyla Business School in 2024.

Professional career
From 2006 to 2010, Alim Aliyev worked as a journalist at the Crimean newspaper "Avdet" and authored the research project "20 Most Influential Crimean Tatars."

From 2008 to 2016, he worked as an analyst and communication consultant at the "pro.mova" expert company. He was involved in the development of media and communication strategies, values research, conducted training in communication and media analytics for over 70 companies and organizations. He also organized events for the media in Ukraine, including one involving former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 2014. Alim Aliev participated in a project on qualitative analysis methods for leading research companies in Georgia commissioned by the Central Election Commission of Georgia as part of his work at pro.mova.

On February 27, 2014, Alim Aliev, together with activist Tamila Tasheva and journalist Sevgil Musaieva, founded the CrimeaSOS NGO.

Alim Aliev is a co-founder of the cultural center "Crimean House in Lviv," established at the end of 2014. Since 2010, he has been organizing the "Days of Crimean Tatar Culture in Lviv." In collaboration with Sevgil Musaieva, he co-authored the book-conversation with the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, "Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable."

From August 2017 to August 2020, he worked as the program director of the state enterprise "Crimean House." He curated and coordinated numerous discussions, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, concerts, lectures, round tables, and forums.

In 2018, he became the founder of the Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar literary project "Crimean Fig", which he coordinates together with Anastasia Levkova. The project includes a literary contest for poets, writers, translators, and essayists, the publication of an anthology, and the organization of a festival of the same name.

He is one of the curators of the exhibition "Amazing Stories of Crimea" at the Mystetskyi Arsenal, which opened in 2019. He is the creator of Crimean programs at national and international conferences, forums and festivals (Book Arsenal, Lviv Media Forum, and BookForum Lviv, Crimea Platform).

He is a delegate in advocacy missions for the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the OSCE, the UN Security Council. In March 2019, he delivered a speech at the UN Security Council on the changes that occurred in Crimea during 5 years of the peninsula's occupation.

Since June 2019, he has been the initiator of the creation of the digital museum of the deportation of Crimean Tatars, "Tamırlar."

Since August 2020, he has been the Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian Institute.

He focuses on the topics of Crimea and Crimean Tatars, decolonisation, promotion of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar culture, human rights and media.

Awards
In 2021, he was awarded the "Order of Merit" by the President of Ukraine.