Timur Absalyamov

Bio

Timur Absalyamov is an international sports industry professional and scholar, who leads research projects at Stanford's Sports Equity Lab. With a doctorate in Economics and a master's degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity, he combines rigorous analytical training with hands-on experience developing and managing strategic projects across the sports industry and academia.

Throughout his career, Timur has lived across six countries, acquiring the skills of multi-cultural thinking on practice. His professional experience spans Russian professional soccer, independent sports management consulting, and international academic institutions, giving him an ability to operate across boardrooms, negotiating tables, and research environments with equal fluency.

Known for his cross-cultural agility and strategic mindset, Timur has a track record of identifying partnership opportunities, aligning stakeholders with competing interests, and turning complex ideas into win-win collaborations. He is equally comfortable representing institutions in high-level negotiations, designing long-term collaborative frameworks, writing analytical reports, and conducting research.

His work focuses on sports ethics, governance, sports and geopolitics, public funding of professional sports, and sustainability in sport. He has been recognised with several prestigious international awards including the Fulbright Scholarship, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, Sverker Åström Foundation Scholarship, and British Petroleum Scholarship (awarded four times).