Nobel Laureate to Deliver Memorial Lecture
~~Adz:Left~~The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank will, on 7 November 2007, host its annual Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium, at the Bank’s headquarters in St Kitts.
This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Chairman of the World Bank Commission on Growth and Development. The lecture will focus on the issues of sustained high growth and poverty reduction in developing countries: what we know and what we do not know at this stage of the development of the global economy.
Professor Spence is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has also served as Philip H. Knight Professor and dean of the Stanford Business School from 1990 to 1999. Prior to which, he served as professor of economics and business administration at Harvard University.
Apart from the Nobel Prize that Professor Spence received in 2001, he has received numerous awards in recognition of his work. In 1972 he was awarded the David A. Wells Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation at Harvard University. In 1978 he was awarded the John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching and three years later the John Bates Clark Medal for a "significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge." In 1983 Professor Spence was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
At various times, he has served as a member of the editorial boards of American Economics Review, Bell Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, and Public Policy.
Started in 1996, the lecture series is in tribute to Sir William Arthur Lewis, the Nobel Laureate in Economics from Saint Lucia, hailed as the pioneer and father of development economics.
