Kiymet Tunca Çaliyurt graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Marmara University, Istanbul Turkey. She also has master's and Ph.D. degrees in Accounting and Finance from the Social Graduate School at Marmara University. She pursued her postdoc studies on "Accounting and Corporate Social Responsibility" with Prof. David Crowther at London Metropolitan University in 2003. Her research interests are in accounting, auditing, fraud, social responsibility, corporate governance, finance, and business ethics with a special interest in NGOs and aviation management. She has business experience as a management trainee at McDonald's, as a member of the finance staff at Singapore Airlines, and as an auditor at Horwath Auditing.

She is an external auditor and a trainer at Consulta Auditing Company, INAA, in Istanbul, under the presidency Prof Dr. Emre Burckin.