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Brief
Bio:
Charles
Wheelan was appointed as a lecturer in public
policy at the Harris School of Public Policy
at the University of Chicago in September of
2004.
Prior
to joining the faculty at the University of
Chicago, Wheelan was Director of Policy and
Communications for Chicago Metropolis 2020,
a business-backed civic group promoting healthy
regional growth in the Chicago area.
From
1997 to 2002, Wheelan was the Midwest correspondent
for The Economist. His story on America’s
burgeoning ex-convict population was the August
10, 2002, cover story. He has written freelance
articles for the Chicago Tribune, the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications.
Wheelan’s
first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the
Dismal Science, was published by W.W. Norton
& Company in 2002 in both the U.S. and the
U.K. The book, an accessible and entertaining
introduction to economics for lay readers, was
released in paperback in September 2003 and
is now being published in seven languages. He
is also the author of a series of essays on
Chicago that will accompany the photographs
of renown landscape photographer Terry Evans
in the book Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait,
which will be published in the summer of 2005.
He is currently working on a public policy textbook
that will be published by W.W. Norton &
Company.
An
avid traveler, Wheelan has traveled around the
world twice and lived for brief stints in London,
Blois (France), Kuwait, and Kathmandu. In the
summer of 2004, he traveled through China, Mongolia,
and Siberia on the Trans-Mongolian Railroad
with two of his three children.
Wheelan
holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University
of Chicago, a Master’s in Public Affairs
from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth
College.
Wheelan is also a frequent contributor to the
Motley Fool Radio Show on National Public Radio
and to the 848 program on WBEZ, Chicago Public
Radio. He lives in Chicago with his wife and
three children.
