Hanife Öztürk Akkartal was born in Biga in 1964. Akkartal graduated from the Faculty of Law at Dokuz Eylül University in 1985 and subsequently joined the Department of Commercial Law as a research assistant. After completing his master's and doctoral degrees at Ankara University's Institute of Social Sciences, he conducted academic research in Germany as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship holder from 1989 to 1991 and as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow from 2005 to 2006. A lecturer at Department of Law at the Balıkesir University, Akkartal is also a registered lawyer with the Bar Associations of Istanbul and Cologne. She is actively involved in solving national and international disputes as an arbitrator (ICC, ISTAC) and expert.