Biographical note

Norman Girvan is Professorial Research Fellow at the UWI Graduate Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He has been Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, and head of the National Planning Agency of the Government of Jamaica. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics of the University College of the West Indies and his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has published extensively on the political economy of development in the Caribbean and the Global South. He is the recipient of several honours and awards.

Contact information

Norman Girvan
Professorial Research Fellow
Institute of International Relations
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine,
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Tel. 868-662-2002 Ext. 3236
Fax: 868-663-9685
Email: norman.girvan@sta.uwi.edu
Internet: http://normangirvan.info

Research and Publications

Norman has done research and published on foreign investment and multinational corporations, the mining industry, technology, the IMF and external debt, social development, Caribbean integration, and economic thought.

Go to publications for a full listing of his work. For a synopsis go to One Thing Led to Another.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

The National Project and the Role of the Engaged Intellectual of the South. Keynote Speech by Yash Tandon at the IXth SALISES Conference

The Power of Philosophy by Brian Meeks. Citation for Norman at the IXth SALISES Conference.

Citation of the University of Havana On the award of Honorary Doctorate in Economic Sciences.

Palabras de elogio al otorgamiento de la categoria de Doctor, Honoris Causas, de la Universidad de la Habana Antonio Romero