Currently, he serves as the Chicago regional director of PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers’ International Association). Timur is a former corporate finance practitioner. His professional interests include corporate and international finance, corporate risk management and governance. Lately, he has been exploring the applications of complexity and network theory in financial economics. Timur is a former Fulbright Scholarship recipient. He has a M.A. degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis, where he also did further graduate work, and an Advanced Professional Certificate in Finance from New York University.