current Vice-Chancellors of the University Principals Sir Thomas Taylor 1947–52 Walter Wyatt Grave 1953–58 Sir William Arthur Lewis 1958–60 Vice-Chancellors Sir William Arthur Lewis 1960–63 Sir Philip Sherlock 1963–69 Sir O Roy Marshall 1969–74 Hon Dr Aston Zachariah Preston 1974–86 Pro-vice-chancellor L R B Robinson acting 1986–88 Sir Alister McIntyre 1988–1998 Rex Nettleford 1998–2004 Eon Nigel Harris 2004–2015 Hilary Beckles 2015– Notable faculty and administrators Helen Asemota: professor of biochemistry and biotechnology Courtenay Bartholomew: the first lecturer and then Professor of Medicine at UWI St Augustine. V. C. R. A. C. Crabbe: Professor of Legislative Drafting, formerly justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, and first Electoral Commissioner of Ghana. Leith Dunn Head of the Mona Unit Albert K Fiadjoe: Distinguished emeritus professor of public law. Elsa Goveia: first female professor of UCWI and noted pioneer in West Indian historiography. Bridget Jones (1935–2000): pioneering Literature and language professor from 1964 to 1982, who developed curricula to include Afro-, Anglo- and Franco-Caribbean writers in university syllabai at UWI and in Britain and Ireland. Dorothy King: head of the Microbiology Department of the medical faculty from 1973 to 2001. Elsa Leo-Rhynie: Principal of the Mona campus. William Arthur Lewis: economist, lecturer, author and joint winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics of 1979. Albert Belville Lockhart: Consultant and Ophthalmologist, Recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol. Evelyn O'Callaghan: Professor of West Indian literature, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education. Orlando Patterson: John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. George Maxwell Richards: Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the St. Augustine campus. Maureen Warner-Lewis: Professor Emerita of African-Caribbean Language and Orature; Gold Musgrave Medal winner in 2009. Manley Elisha West: Professor of Pharmacology, recipient of the Jamaican Order of Merit, co-inventor of Canasol. J. H. Parry :Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University Raymond Gosling Richard D'Aeth: President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge University Michael B. Bracken Gordon Shirley pro vice chancellor and principal Notable alumni UWI graduates who are, or have been, heads of government: Vance Amory, former premier of Nevis Kenny Anthony, former prime minister of St. Lucia Owen Arthur, former prime minister of Barbados Dean Barrow, former prime minister of Belize Heather Doram, activist and educator who designed Antigua and Barbuda's national costume Denzil Douglas, former prime minister of St. Kitts & Nevis Rufus Ewing, premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands