Dr. P¿nar Kara is a qualified lawyer with expertise in business and human rights. She obtained her Bachelor in Laws (LL.B.) from Bilkent University in Turkey (2006). She attended as a Jean Monnet scholar to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she achieved her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Advanced Studies in European Business Law (2008). She was a visiting research associate at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London (2018). She achieved her Ph.D. degree in Civil Law at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey (2021), with a thesis on tort liability in corporate groups. She is the co-founder of Minerva Business and Human Rights Association, an independent NGO in Turkey with a central focus on business and human rights. She divides her time between Paris and Istanbul.