Danijela Martinović was born on January 11, 1974 in Sarajevo, where she finished primary and secondary school. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo in 1999, majoring in Accounting and Finance, and in the same year she graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, Department of German language and literature. Since 2000, she has been employed as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo, Department of Microeconomics. She received her master's degree in 2005 from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, and her doctorate in 2008 from the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo. She is currently employed as an associate professor.

From March 2009 to October 2010, she was a member of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a member of the Committee on Economic and Financial Policy (Vice-Chair) and the Committee on Transport and Communications of the Federal Parliament. Since 2010, she has been a member of the House of Representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is the Chair of the Joint Commission for Economic Reforms and Development, the Second Deputy Chair of the Finance and Budget Committee, a member of the Committee on Foreign Trade and Customs, a member of the Commission for Gender Equality and a member of several ad-hoc commissions.

She has participated in a number of professional seminars, conferences, scientific symposia and their organization. She cooperated with prof. Ph.D. Helmut Braun, and prof. Ph.D. Reiner Goemmel from the Faculty of Economics in Regensburg (FR Germany) in the field of social, pension and health sector reform.

She is a participant in the project of the Regional Network of Parliamentary Committees for Economy and Finance of the Western Balkans with the aim of establishing closer cooperation in the field of economy and improving economic legislation - a joint project of the Network and Westminster Foundation for Democracy UK. The project was also supported by the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. She implemented the project of the Joint Commission for Economic Reforms and Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Representation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the USAID Parliamentary Strengthening Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina - organization of a series of conferences entitled "Economic and Legal Issues in the Context of Bosnia and Herzegovina's EU Integration. "

She has published several articles in journals, books and paper collections in microeconomics, entrepreneurship, budgeting, public policy and finance. She is the author of two textbooks, co-author of the book, manual and monograph. As a scholarship holder of the German Organization for Academic Cooperation and Exchange - DAAD, on 1996/97, she studied German in Essen, BRD.

At the end of her studies (1999), she worked for a year at Gospodarska banka Sarajevo - Foreign Exchange Department. She also worked as a translator for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and for the OSCE during her studies.

By the decision of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she was reappointed as a member of the Governing Board of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for a term of six years, starting on January 3, 2024.