He was born in 1970 in Kars, Turkey. He graduated from the Department of Business Administration at Marmara University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, in 1992. He completed his master’s degree in 1994 and his Ph.D. in 2000 in the Department of Accounting and Auditing at Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences. He started his academic career as a research assistant in 1993 at the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Muğla University. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2001, Associate Professor in 2012, and has been serving as a Professor since 2019.
Throughout his tenure at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, he has held various administrative positions, including Vice Chair of the Department, Vice Dean, and membership in the Faculty Board and Faculty Executive Board. Since 2023, he has been serving as the Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance. He is a member of the Muhasebe Öğretim Üyeleri Bilim ve Dayanışma Vakfı (MÖDAV) and the Türkiye Muhasebe Uzmanları Derneği (TMUD).
He is married and has two children.

Dr. Hakan Cavlak was born in Izmir in 1985 and completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Izmir. He received his bachelor's degree from Ege University, Department of Business Administration in 2008. He received his master's degree in 2015 and PhD in 2019 from Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Accounting and Finance. His research interests focus on corporate reporting, financial reporting standards, sustainability reporting, firm performance and performance metrics. Hakan Cavlak works as an associate professor at Ardahan University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. 

Sezer graduated from Bosporus University with a degree in Management and holds a Master’s degree in Money, Banking, and Finance from Sheffield University, as well as a Certification in Retail Banking from Manchester Business School. Sezer earned a Ph.D. in Econometrics from Dokuz Eylul University.
Throughout her career, Sezer has held various positions in the finance sector at the head office level. Her experience includes working at KPMG Risk Consulting Services and Grant Thornton, where she served as a founding partner of the advisory services division.
Currently, Sezer is an associate professor of finance in the Accounting and Finance Department at Izmir Bakircay University. She has also been a visiting professor at UNISA's Financial Governance Department and the Commercial Accounting Department at Johannesburg University in South Africa, contributing to international projects and publications.
Sezer serves as the editor-in-chief of the Advances in Corporate Governance Journal, which was established by the Good Governance Academy and Witz Business School. Additionally, she is a member of the CAPIA project registered at UNISA. Her research interests include Applied Econometrics, Financial Markets and Instruments, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Energy Markets, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Fraud Accounting, Auditing, Ethics, Coaching, Mentoring, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Dr. Durak started his academic career in 2003 as a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Business Administration from which he graduated. After working in this faculty until 2011, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Yaşar University in 2011 and worked in this faculty until 2024. During this period, he taught various accounting courses at undergraduate and graduate levels, supervised nine (9) master's and six (6) doctoral theses. As of the fall semester of 2024, he returned to the Faculty of Business Administration of Dokuz Eylül University, where he currently works, with the title of Associate Professor.