Mustafa Akdağ was born in 1976 in Konya, Turkey. In 1999, he graduated from Selçuk University; Department of Public Relations and Publicity in Konya/Turkey. Also he completed his Post Graduated Degree in 2001 and PH Degree in 2007 in Department of Public Relations and Publicity; Institute of Social Sciences in Selçuk University/Konya. In 2007, he was appointed as an assistant professor in Karadeniz Technical University/Trabzon and then moved to Erciyes University/Kayseri. In 2010, he became Associate Professor of Public Relations. In 2015 he was appointed as a Professor in Erciyes University. He is stil working as a chair in Public Relations and Publicity Department and has been Dean at the Communication Faculty of Erciyes University 2016-2020 andDean at the Communication Faculty of Yozgat Bozok University 2020-2023 . He is married with three children.

His interests topics on public relations, crisis management and human research management and ever since he started the proffesion he has had some academic reseraches about his fields like books, chapter in books and articles in national and international journal. He is an editor of books title of “Strategic Approaches Based on Communicational Essential”, “Teamwork and Leadership”, “Crisis Management:Solution Focused on Communicative Basis” and a author of book title of “Organizational Perspectives on Human Resources and Public Relations”.