Arthur Lewis (economist)
Sir William Arthur Lewis (January 23, 1915 - June 15, 1991) was a British economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979 he won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace.
Lewis was born in Saint Lucia, then still a British territory in the Caribbean. After gaining his BSc. in 1937 and Ph.D. in 1940 at the London School of Economics, Lewis lectured at the University of Manchester before being appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies in 1959. In 1963 he was both knighted and appointed a lecturer at Princeton University (a position in which he would remain until his retirement in 1983) and in 1970 became director of the Caribbean Development Bank. He died on June 15, 1991 in Bridgetown, Barbados and was buried in the grounds of a community college named in his honour.
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