I wish to add Steve Lewis to the faculty memories. He and Bill Gates ’39 taught me freshman economics and influenced my career choice. Steve also taught the basic Development Economics course at the Center for Development Economics, and welcomed Andy Weiss and I into the class where we became acquainted with thirty junior civil servants from LDCs, among then Goh (later PM of Singapore) and NKojo (many years a World Bank official). Steve also personally intervened to assure that Andy and I were accepted into the PHD Economics program at Stanford. He was a terrific teacher and generous mentor.
You can see more of his career beyond Williams in the attached:
Stephen R. Lewis Jr. is President Emeritus and Professor of Economics Emeritus at Carleton College, where he served as president from 1987 to 2002. He began senior administrative experience at Williams College, where he twice served as Provost of the College (1968-71 and 1973-77). From January 2007 to December 2014 he was Chairman of the Board of Columbia Funds, a $130 billion family of mutual funds, where he was a director from 2002-2014.
An economist with a specialty in developing countries, Lewis received his BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from Williams in 1960, and his PhD in Economics from Stanford in 1963. He taught Economics at Stanford (1962-63), Harvard (1965-66), the University of Nairobi (1971-72) and Williams (1966-87), where he held the Herbert H. Lehman Professorship.
His work as Research Advisor to the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Karachi (1963-65), resulted in two books, including Pakistan: Industrialization and Trade Policy (1970). He also lived in Nairobi (1971-73) where he served as an Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Kenya.
In 1975, Lewis began a long association with Botswana, serving as Economic Consultant to the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning on a resident basis in 1977-78 and 1980-82, on short term assignments between 1975 and 1988, and occasionally until 1998. With Charles Harvey he coauthored Policy Choice and Development Performance in Botswana (1990). Lewis edited Q.K.J. Masire’s Very Brave or Very Foolish? Memoirs of an African Democrat (2006). Masire was Botswana’s second President (1980-98) and was Vice President and Minister of Finance from Independence in 1966 until 1980.
Because of his work in Southern Africa, Lewis was asked by the Council on Foreign Relations to analyze the South African economy, which resulted in his 1990 book, The Economics of Apartheid. His practical experience with and studies of fiscal policy in several countries led to his 1984 book, Taxation for Development.