Vance Roley
Dean and First Hawaiian Bank Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Management, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Vance Roley joined the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Shidler College of Business as dean and First Hawaiian Bank Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Management in 2005. Prior to that, Roley was the acting dean and the Hughes M. Blake Professor of Finance at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. Before joining the University of Washington, he served as an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He also spent a year as a senior staff economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and he served as a research affiliate and then a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1980 to 1992.
Roley received a BA degree with majors in economics and statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. He became a member of Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California, where he was also awarded the Economics Departmental Citation. He received MA and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University.