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Lecture: The Fourth Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture - Economic Theory and Economic Policy in the 20th Century West Indies: "The Lewis Tradition of Town and Gown"
Date: November 03, 1999
Country: Basseterre, St Kitts
Lecturer: Lloyd Best

Lloyd Best joined the Institute of Social and Economic Research of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Jamaica in January 1958 as a Junior Research Fellow. He had been recruited while a graduate student in monetary economics at Oxford University.

For most of the next two decades Best was based either at the Mona or St Augustine campuses of the UWI in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, respectively. He left the Department of Economics at the latter campus in August

1976 to work full-time in the Tapia House Group, a movement established in the late 1960's by several notable Trinidadian intellectuals and thinkers to promote critical dialogue about Caribbean affairs.

In 1978 the Group set up the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the West Indies (TTIWI), where Best has been Director for the last two decades. He has repeatedly said that he has no business other than the West Indies.

From TTIWI, as from UWI, Best has undertaken an immense number of assignments and missions within the global academic community, on all the continents. Part of the early fruit of such activity was the spread during the 1960s and 1970s of the New World Group, a network of Caribbean professionals committed to founding a Caribbean party based on an autonomous and organic intellectual tradition, operating free of governments, served by its own machinery and private network of communications and above all by its own journals and its own publishing.

Best has been a promoter of the New World Quarterly (UWI, Jamaica), the New World Fortnightly (Georgetown), Tapia (Trinidad) and the Trinidad and Tobago Review. In addition to wide participation in conferences and seminars, he has given many keynote lectures and presentations. Lloyd Best has also done a great deal of consulting for the United Nations and multilateral agencies, mostly in French Africa and the Caribbean.