Google celebrates St Lucia economist Sir W Arthur Lewis with a doodle

Google on Thursday lauded the work of economist, professor, and author Sir W Arthur Lewis with a doodle. The design was created by Manchester-based artist Camilla Ru.

Sir Lewis was collectively granted the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his efforts to model the economic powers that impact developing nations.

Regarded as one of the trailblazers in the area of modern development economics, he was also world's first Black person to hold a chair in a British university (at Manchester the first Black faculty member at the London School of Economics, university), and the first Black instructor to get a full professorship at Princeton University.

Nobile price holder Lewis was born on January 23, 1915, in Castries, when St Lucia was a British Colony.

Notwithstanding the challenges with racial differentiation, in 1932 he won government research and established out to attain eduction at the London School of Economics, where he ultimately received a doctorate in industrial economics.

Lewis shifted his focus to world economic history and economic development and in 1954 issued his foundational article “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour.”

With many important accomplishments, Lewis added important work to the United Nations and gave his expertise as an expert to governments in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. He also assisted establish and worked as the first president of the Caribbean Development Bank.