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Lecture: The Second Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture - Reinterpreting Caribbean Development.
Date: November 12, 1997
Country: St John's, Antigua
Lecturer: Professor Norman Girvan

Norman Girvan is Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. Born and educated in Jamaica, he studied economics at the University of the West Indies between 1959 and 1962 and went on to do his doctorate in economics at the London School of Economics.

Professor Girvan's chief areas of research have been foreign investment and transnational corporations in bauxite and other mining industries, regional economic cooperation in the Caribbean, external debt and relations with the international financial institutions, and policy issues related to the transfer and development of technology in developing countries. Among his chief publications are The IMF and the Third World: the Case of Jamaica 1975-1980, (with Richard Bernal and Wesley Hughes), and Managing International Technology Transfer: A Strategic Approach, with Kurt Hoffman (1990). He has also edited several books including Readings in the Political Economy of the Caribbean (with Owen Jefferson), and Dependence and Underdevelopment in the New World and the Old (1973).

Professor Girvan has been visiting fellow at Universities in Canada, Britain and the United States, and he has consulted for several governments and international organisations. He was instrumental in the formation of the Association of Caribbean Economists in 1987, becoming its founding President and continuing to serve on its executive committee. In 1991-1993 he was a member of the Non-Aligned Group Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on External Debt of Developing Countries. In 1994 he was expert witness at the Hearings on World Development at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He has served on several boards and committees at the University of the West Indies, and is currently a member of Jamaica's National Commission on Science and Technology.