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 at the University of St. Gallen.

He is the Founder and CEO of the Swiss Cyber Institute in Zurich and the chair of the Global Cyber Conference, which builds bridges between security professionals, business experts, and academics.

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).

He is a doctoral researcher in AI in Education at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.