C.Gülşen Karanis Ekşioğlu spent one year with AFS scholarship in Germany during high school. She studied at University of Ankara, Faculty of Political Sciences- International Relations, graduated in 2003 and did her MBA at Bahcesehir University- Istanbul, in 2014.

Karanis Eksioglu completed Women Leadership Program at Yale University in 2019 and Digitalization Program in 2020 at MIT. Currently, she is doing her PhD at Bahcesehir University, on Global Politics and International Relations.  

She has been elected as “Young Global Leader” by the “International Diplomacy Institute” in 2007. Karanis Eksioglu was Board Member of Turkish-German Business Council and also of the International Cooperation Platform. She is still member of the Board of Trustees of the Genc Hayat Foundation in Istanbul.

Karanis Eksioglu is co-coordinator of Antalya Diplomacy Forum since 2020, an initiative of Turkish Foreign Ministry.

She is married and has three children.