Alim Aliev

Deputy Director General of the Ukrainian institute. Human rights defender, curator of educational and cultural projects, researcher, essayist . Member of PEN Ukraine, co-founder of “Crimea SOS” NGO. Co-author of a book “Mustafa Dzhemilev. Unbreakable” about Crimean Tatars leader, , author of essays about Crimea, Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian identity during the war in Ukrainian and international publications. . The founder of the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar literary project “Crimean Fig”, the initiator of the creation of the digital museum of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars “Tamırlar” . He worked as a program director of the Crimean House and a media and communications consultant of the expert company pro.mova. Participant and speaker of Ukrainian delegations in the Council of Europe, European Parliament, OSCE, UN Security Council, and other political institutions. Awarded the Order of Merit, by the President of Ukraine in 2020. 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.