People: Turkish deputy appointed; Dominican Republic governor and deputy to serve again

Turkey: Emrah Şener has been appointed to the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey as deputy governor, a spokesman has confirmed.

A former banker, Şener will now leave his role at Istanbul's Özyeğin University to join the governor and other deputies on the bank's monetary policy committee.

Şener studied at the London School of Economics and received his PhD in mathematical finance from Imperial College London. His professional career began in the London offices of HSBC – for the division of financial engineering – and Citibank, where he worked in the department of fixed-income securities and credit trading, securitisation group

He has since joined academia, his latest research concerning the impact of macroeconomics and monetary policies on asset prices, pension funds, asset allocation optimisation, international economics and finance.

Dominican Republic: The governor and deputy governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic will stay in their posts for a fresh term, following an official decree from Danilo Medina, the country's president.

Héctor Valdez Albizu first served as governor in 1994 for a period of six years. He returned to the central bank in 2004 after a spell in government, and has remained at the helm ever since.

Clarissa de la Rocha de Torres has worked alongside Albizu as deputy since 2004, and was also reappointed. She first joined the bank in 1978 as assistant to the foreign exchange department.

During the same presidential announcement, Jaime David Fernández Mirabal was appointed a member of the central bank's monetary board, replacing Emilio Luna Peguero.

Bangladesh: Kazi Sayedur Rahman has been promoted to the post of executive director of Bangladesh Bank.

Rahman, who worked as general manager of the forex reserves and treasury management department, will now act as the chief of the central bank's Rangpur office and will oversee the activities of the banking sector in that area, a spokesperson from the central bank confirmed.

Rahman joined Bangladesh Bank as an assistant director in 1988 after studying at Dhaka University. For a decade he served in both the banking regulation and policy department, before being appointed the forex wing chief – a position he held for over 15 years.