Director of Partnerships,
Center for Rising Generations

Teymour’s career began over a decade ago working with asylum seekers in Istanbul, where he founded Istanbul&I, a humanitarian youth network that mobilized 10,000+ volunteers globally. He saw that young people didn’t need to be “developed” but rather needed adults to trust them with real power. 

So Teymour made a deliberate choice to learn how those institutions work. He started at the World Bank and UNHCR working on data mapping and rapid response infrastructure. At Opportunity@Work, he partnered with Fortune 500 companies to rewire the labor market through skills-based hiring. At Intuit, he led partnerships and scaled education programs from 100,000 to 4.5 million students in nearly five years and led the Next Generation Network. He worked with institutions and school districts to scale free financial education curriculum and advocated alongside organizations that helped make financial education a core skill for adulting.

Most recently at Walmart Foundation, Teymour managed product innovation for Spark Good, connecting 70,000 nonprofit partners to millions of Walmart customers through programs like Round Up, Registry, and campaigns. This partner ecosystem helped generate nearly $100M in community impact.

Teymour’s journey comes full circle at CRG, bringing the skills he developed navigating institutional power and building partnerships at scale back to youth leadership work.

A Fulbright Scholar, Stanford AMENDS Fellow, and Ashoka Fellow recognized for his work in youth leadership, Teymour holds a Master’s in Anthropology from University of London and speaks six languages, most recently spending three years in Latin America learning Spanish and Portuguese.