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Hafize Gaye Erkan
Hafize Gaye Erkan was born in Istanbul in 1982 to a mechanical engineer father and a mathematics teacher mother from Elazig.
After graduating from Istanbul Boys' High School, Hafize Gaye Erkan completed the Industrial Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University in 2001.
Continuing his education in the USA, Erkan received his doctorate in operations research and financial engineering from Princeton University in 2005. Erkan completed two training programs on management sciences at Harvard Business School and leadership at Stanford University.
Erkan, who started his career at Goldman Sachs in 2005, provided consultancy services to the boards of directors and senior management teams of major banks and insurance companies in the USA on balance sheet management, stress testing and capital planning, risk management, mergers and acquisitions during his 9 years there. gave.
Hafize Gaye Erkan, who started working at First Republic Bank in 2014, served as co-chairman (Co-CEO), chairman, board member, investment director, deposit director and risk co-director during her nearly 8 years of working there.
Erkan, who was a member of the board of directors for 2 years at Tiffany & Co, a jewelry company headquartered in the USA, joined the board of directors of Marsh McLennan, a global financial consultancy company in the Fortune 500, in 2022.
According to the San Francisco Business Times' 2018 research, Erkan, who is the only woman under the age of 40 to hold the title of president or CEO in America's 100 largest banks, was named the "40 Under 40 List" of the San Francisco Business Times in the same year as Crain New It was included in York Business's “40 Under 40 List”.
In 2019, Erkan was included in Crain's "Important Women in the Banking and Finance Sector" and American Banker's "Women to Watch List".
Hafize Gaye Erkan was appointed to the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) with the decision signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on June 9, 2023.