Stephen Lewis is President Emeritus of Carleton College. During Lewis’s presidency at Carleton (1987-2002), the College substantially expanded its international programs, its international student body, the proportion of US minority students, and its applicant pool for admissions; diversified its faculty and staff (in gender, nationality and race); reformed its governance system; adopted new procedures for faculty personnel decisions; increased support for faculty development; improved the quality and quantity of student services; substantially increased alumni financial and volunteer support of the College; constructed major new facilities, enhanced academic programs and student life; and more than tripled Carleton’s net financial worth.
While at Carleton, Lewis was twice on the Board of the Consortium on Financing of Higher Education, and served once as chair; he also chaired the boards of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Minnesota Private College Council. Since retiring from Carleton, he has served as a consultant to several colleges, their presidents and their boards.
Lewis joined the faculty of Williams College in 1966. He was executive secretary to the committee that recommended in 1969 that Williams become coeducational, and twice served as Provost of the College (1968-71 and 1973-77). He also chaired the Committee on Priorities and Resources for the 1980s (1979-80), and a Financial Aid Task Force (1982-83) on financial aid and admissions policies. From 1984 to 1986 he chaired the Economics Department and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. He was the Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Economics from 1976 to 1987.
A specialist in the economics of developing countries, Lewis was Research Advisor to the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Karachi, Pakistan (1963-65), Economic Advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Kenya (1971-73), and Economic Consultant to the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in Botswana (1975-1996), resident in Botswana 1977-78 and 1980-82. He has written five books and several dozen articles on economic development.
Lewis holds a BA from Williams College and an MA and PhD from Stanford University. He has taught at Stanford, Harvard, the University of Nairobi, and the University of Sussex, in addition to Williams and Carleton. Williams, Carleton, Macalester College, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong have awarded him honorary degrees.
Lewis is a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, William Mitchell College of Law, and Wallin Education Partners, and is on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He is Chairman of the Board of certain Columbia Funds, the $100 billion mutual fund group that was IDS Funds, and chairs the governance committee at Valmont Industries, Inc.
He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Judith Frost Lewis.
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