Executive Profile
Thursday, April 18, 1996
Name: Wali Osman
Age: 46
Position: Vice president, Bank of Hawaii
First job: Looking after father's sheep in Afghanistan
Favorite pastimes: Reading, writing
"This includes tracking total income, employment, unemployment, foreign investment, industries with potential and a base-line on socio-political stability," said Osman who was promoted to vice president in charge of economic research for 13 Pacific Basin markets in which Bank of Hawaii does business. "Our hope is to make Bank of Hawaii the best source of business information on the Pacific."
For 10 years he worked as the bank's domestic economist before becoming director of research at Monroe & Friedlander Inc. for one year.
After three years in Sacramento, Calif., where he was a consultant and business writer, Osman returned to Bank of Hawaii in 1994 as an assistant vice president. He first came to Hawaii in 1976 from Afghanistan on an East-West Center scholarship.