Dartmouth professor Charles Wheelan, New York Times best-selling author of Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science and We Came, We Saw, We Left, among others, has been named the Commencement Speaker for Dublin School’s 2023 graduation ceremony on June 3, 2023.

Wheelan is currently a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on education policy, health care, tax policy, and income inequality, as well as the Practicum in Global Policy Leadership. His recent teaching accolades at Dartmouth include the 2020 Dean of Faculty Teaching Award and the 2014 Distinguished Lecturer Award. The classes of 2011 and 2020 selected him as their Class Day Speaker, and he was elected by the classes of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 as one of Dartmouth’s Top 10 Professors.

A former freelance journalist, he has written for Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications, and served as Midwest correspondent for The Economist from 1997-2002, when his first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, was published. An accessible introduction to economics, it is now published in 14 languages. His 2013 book Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data reached the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction.

Wheelan’s travel memoir, We Came, We Saw, We Left, recounts his family’s recent gap year, chronicling nine months spent across six continents with three teenagers. He is also the author of The Centrist Manifesto and the founder and co-chair of Unite America, an organization dedicated to bridging the partisan divide and electing a more representative and functional government. Wheelan currently contributes regularly to NPR and other media outlets.

Head of School Brad Bates is thrilled to welcome Professor Wheelan to Dublin School in June, “I first met Professor Wheelan in 1987 when he was a student at Dartmouth and have followed his life and career since. As impressive as his writing, research, and teaching careers have been, I am excited for our students to hear Professor Wheelan’s messages about the importance of travel to a young person’s growth and how he has balanced personal interests and family with his career throughout his adult life. The example of his life lived with curiosity and meaningful work speaks to almost every aspect of Dublin School’s mission.”