Charles Wheelan

About Charles Wheelan

Charlie Wheelan is the incoming faculty director of the Center for Business, Government, and Society at the Tuck School of Business. He also teaches undergraduate courses in public policy. In 2020, he was awarded the Dartmouth’s Dean of the Faculty Teaching Award. He is currently a visiting lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Wheelan is the author of many nonfiction books, including the “naked series”: Naked Economics, Naked Statistics, and Naked Money. In 2016-17, Charlie and Leah Wheelan spent nine months traveling around the world with their three teenage children. His humorous account of that experience, We Came, We Saw, We Left, was published by W.W. Norton in January of 2021 and reviewed positively in the New York Times.

Wheelan’s first novel, The Rationing, was published in 2019 by W.W. Norton. Kirkus described it as “An entertaining political satire . . . like a West Wing marathon, with Sorkin-esque dialogue, well-drawn characters, and sharp-edged infighting . . . A highly readable and intelligent first novel.”

In March of 2009, Wheelan ran unsuccessfully for Congress as the representative from the Illinois 5th District in the special election to replace Rahm Emanuel. He is the author of The Centrist Manifesto and the founder and chair emeritus of Unite America, a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to put voters first by fostering a more representative and functional government.

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. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife Leah Yegian Wheelan, who is principal of the Hanover Street Elementary School in Lebanon.