Born in Ankara in 1968, she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Middle East Technical University in 1990. Since 1993, she has been actively engaged as a founding partner, project designer, and director at Hatırlı Architecture Ltd., collaborating with Nami Hatırlı. Yeşim Hatırlı has served as the Board Chairman at TSMD for two terms. Notably, she played a pivotal role in the establishment of the TSMD Architecture Center in 2012 and took on the coordination of a European Union project during the same period, resulting in the creation of a city model for Ankara.