Speaker Bio

Samir Aliyev is the Founder and CEO of the Swiss Cyber Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2018, he has been Academic Programme Director and lead lecturer of the ‘Data Protection Officer’ and ‘Cyber Security for Executives’ at the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen. Previously, he was a cybersecurity training expert at expert group meetings in the Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He is a PhD researcher in AI in Education at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.