Timur Galen is a member of the Board Trustees of Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) where he is Chair of its Operations Committee. He is also a member of the inaugural Board of Directors of Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), a member of the Board of Directors of Creative Capital, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Weitzman School of Design at University of Pennsylvania. 

Post-pandemic, Timur successfully managed the transition of both board and executive leadership roles at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), where he served as Chair for ten years, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), where served as Chair for five years. He currently serves as Emeritus Chair of both LMCC and MASS MoCA and is a co-founder and Emeritus Director of the Urban Design Forum. 

Timur also served on the Board of Directors of Regional Plan Association (RPA) where he was a member of its Executive Committee and Co-Chair of its Nominations and Governance Committee. Throughout the Obama Administration, he was a member of U.S. Department of State’s Overseas Building Operations Industry Advisory Group. A former member of Haverford College Board of Managers and Chair of its Property Committee, he has also served on the Dean’s Leadership Council at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and as a Special Advisor to New York Public Library. 

Until his retirement at the end of 2021, Timur was Citadel's Chief Workplace Officer and a Senior Managing Director of the firm. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Executive Vice President of Related Companies with responsibility for commercial development and was a member of the leadership team responsible for the development of Hudson Yards.

Prior to joining Related, Timur was a Partner and Global Co-Head of Corporate Services and Real Estate at Goldman Sachs & Co. where he led the development and subsequent operations of 200 West Street, the firm’s global headquarters, and the transformative redevelopment of the balance of its New York/New Jersey campus, including 30 Hudson Street in Jersey City, The Conrad New York, a mixed-use hotel and retail complex in Lower Manhattan, and two purpose-built data centers together with their related technology infrastructure in New Jersey. He also led the development of Plumtree Court, the firm’s European Headquarters in London, the redevelopment of Rational House, its India Headquarters in Mumbai, the redevelopment of Winland International Center, its China Headquarters in Beijing, the development of the firm’s multi-building, multi-million square feet campus in Bengaluru, and the evolution of Goldman Sachs offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, Paris, Salt Lake City, Singapore, and Tokyo, among other locations. 

With over 40 years of diversified experience in design, development, entertainment, and financial services, Timur has also held senior executive positions at Walt Disney Imagineering, Reichmann International, and Bechtel Park Tower Properties. A Registered Architect, he completed his design apprenticeship under Pritzker Prize winners Robert Venturi and Fumiko Maki and received his early real estate training at Hines.

Timur, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, earned a BA in Physics from Haverford College, Master of Architecture and Master of Civil and Urban Engineering degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Henry Luce Foundation Research Fellow at Tokyo University, and has lectured regularly in graduate design and business programs at Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Michigan, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.