British economist, born in St. Lucia in the West Indies British economist, born in St. Lucia in the West Indies. He studied and taught at the London School of Economics, before becoming professor of economics at Manchester (1948- 1958), where he did some of his most important work on development economics. He then became the first president of the University of the West Indies (1959-1963). From 1963 until his retirement in 1983, he taught at Princeton, and his lectures on economic development were masterful, but most Ph.D. students in those days preferred to specialise in more technical fields. Sir Arthur advised international organisations and national governments, especially in West Africa and the Caribbean. In 1979 he shared the Nobel Prize for economics for his contributions to development economics. He was president of the American Economic Association in 1983. Sir W. Arthur Lewis (1915-1990)