Timur was born in Santa Barbara, California. He received a B.A. in Art History and Political Science, with a minor in Italian from UCLA, and is a 2015 graduate of USC Gould School of Law. He has summered with the General Counsel’s Office of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), externed at the UNODC, where he helped develop strategies to combat international illicit markets, and remotely clerked for the Supreme Court Chamber of the ECCC. Prior to law school, he was an assistant curator at Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. After law school, Timur was awarded an Orfalea-Brittingham Fellowship during which he worked as an assistant general counsel at the Clinton Foundation. He is currently a litigation associate at Kramer, Levin, Naftalis and Frankel, LLP. Timur speaks Turkish, English, and Italian.