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Christopher Wedding
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Christopher Wedding is the Manager of R&D and Sustainability for Cherokee where he focuses on investment opportunities related to clean energy, green building and other new initiatives. Dr. Wedding is also a Lecturing Fellow with the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Kenan-Flagler Business School, an Ambassador for the Living Building Challenge and a Fellow with the E3 Foundation. He has served as a key advisor for nationally recognized LEED Platinum buildings, published numerous professional articles and spoken at various national conferences. Since 2004, he has been a LEED™ Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building Council and serves on its national Research Advisory Council. Dr. Wedding received a BS in Environmental Science from Western Kentucky University, where he was a Goldwater Scholar in Math and Science and the Honors Program Scholar of the Year. At UNC, he earned an MS and a PhD focused on green real estate development, which combined studies in business, environmental science and management, and city and regional planning.

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