Stephen Lewis has served as an economic consultant to the governments of Kenya, Pakistan, and since 1975 Botswana, where he has been instrumental in that country’s remarkable development. At the time of its independence in 1966, land-locked Botswana was among the world’s twenty-poorest countries. Over the following three decades its gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of more than 7 percent–thought to be the highest in the world–as has its annual rate of job growth. At independence, the country had fewer than three miles of paved roads; it now has more than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa combined. Its health care system is strong and its secondary school system is close to being universal. Lewis’s work with Botswana came during a distinguished career in academia. He taught at Williams from 1966 until serving, from 1987 to 2002, as president of Carleton College. Under his leadership the Minnesota college grew in almost every measure. After graduating from Williams in 1960, he earned a Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University.
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