David Wheeler, an independent writer and editorial advisor, has specialized in higher education for his 40-year career, principally in the US as Chief Editor with the renowned Chronicle of Higher Education. He has organized events, spoken at conferences, taught journalism workshops, and reported articles from more than 40 countries across Africa, Asia, the South Pacific and the Middle East.

Early in his career, he earned a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University and later won a Vannevar Bush Fellowship at MIT for journalists interested in writing about science. He went on to The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he served as a senior writer, international editor, managing editor, and managing editor for global. In his capacity as managing editor for global, he did international editorial outreach for the Chronicle. During that time, he visited five of the public universities in Hong Kong.

In 2012, he founded Al-Fanar Media in London, a bilingual publication that covered education, research, and culture in the Arab world. He led that publication for nine years. As a result of his unique background, David has insights into the education sector in both the developed and the developing world, especially across the MENA region.