Dr. Charles Wheelan is a lecturer in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Dr. Wheelan received a M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in 1993 and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Harris School in 1998. Since then, he has served as the Midwest correspondent for The Economist, as an economics and finance correspondent for WBEZ radio, as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and most recently as Director of Policy and Communications for Chicago Metropolis 2020. In addition, Dr. Wheelan previously served as the speechwriter for Maine Governor John R. McKernan, Jr. He wrote Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science which was published in 2002.