First Republic Ex-Star Erkan Nabs Top Job Far From Wall Street

Hafize Gaye Erkan rose just about as high as you can on Wall Street.

The co-head of First Republic Bank left about a year and a half before its collapse, ran another finance firm, then exited when its plans to buy a bank didn’t pan out. Now, freshly installed as the first woman to run Turkey’s central bank, she’s surprising investors with her plans to shape one of the world’s biggest economies.