1987 Kadirli doğumlu, evli ve iki çocuk annesidir. 2009 yılında Selçuk Üniversitesi İİBF Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü’nden mezun olmuştur. 2011 yılında Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi İİBF Kamu Yönetimi Bölümünde araştırma görevlisi olarak atanmıştır. Görevlendirildiği Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Yönetim Bilimleri Anabilim Dalında 2014 yılında Kamu Yönetimi Etiği konulu teziyle yüksek lisans, 2022 yılında Devlette Performans Denetimi Uygulaması ve Dönüşümü: 1996-2010 Sayıştay Deneyimi adlı teziyle doktora öğrenimini tamamlamıştır. Dr. Araştırma Görevlisi olarak Muş Alparslan Üniversitesinde çalışmaktadır.
Çalışma Alanları: Kamu Yönetimi Reformu, Kamu Etiği, Kamu Mali Yönetimi ve Denetimi. 

Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Durham University Business School and the Director of the Durham Centre in Islamic Economics and Finance.
Mehmet’s teaching, research, publication, and supervision of research is all in Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management, Islamic social welfare institutions, and the Middle Eastern political economies.
His articles on his research interests have appeared in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published manuscripts and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance.
Mehmet has acted as a consultant to COMCEC (part of OIC), CIBAFI and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects and was also a member of the Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Participation Bank from 2018-2020.
Mehmet has recently been engaged in a project (The Invisible Ceiling: Muslim Immigrant Entrepreneurs Navigate Norway’s Financial Environment – funded by the Norwegian Research Council) - aiming to develop entrepreneurship culture among Muslim refugees and immigrants through various instruments of Islamic finance. The project proposes blended financing involving Islamic commercial finance as well as Islamic social finance in empowering Muslim refugees and immigrants. Mehmet has been involved in a UNDP project to develop Islamic microfinance instruments in Afghanistan. He completed projects for CIBAFI in developing the Sustainable Development Guide for Islamic Financial Institutions and for UNDP in developing an MOOC training programme in Islamic Finance for SDGs.
Mehmet is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Islam and Society, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, and the Review of Islamic Economics. Mehmet is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.
Mehmet is the 2024 Laureate of IsDB (Islamic Development Bank) Prize for Impactful Achievement in Islamic Economics for recognition of his novel work on Islamic moral economy and the articulation of Islamic finance to be supportive of sustainable development and the welfare of human beings.
Durham University Profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=e6ZHO-cAAAAJ&hl=en