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Christine Werneke (MS in CDAE, 1997)
Christine accepted the position as Chief Marketing Officer for the State of Vermont in October 2005. Werneke is a third generation Vermonter, born in Burlington and lived in Monkton and Essex while growing up. She attended the University of Vermont where she received her undergraduate degree and later a Master of Science degree in Community Development and Applied Economics in 1997. After graduate school she moved to South Carolina where she worked in the textile industry as a marketing manager.
Werneke comes back to Vermont from New Jersey where she most recently
worked for Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy benefits management
company as the Senior Manager for Market Development. While at Medco,
she worked with both internal and external clients on developing new
services, expanding into new markets, and growing existing ones.
Outside of work, Werneke and her family enjoy spending time outside almost anytime of the year. She particularly enjoys skiing and hiking in the Green Mountains. In February and March she especially looks forward to spending her "spare" time in the family's sugar house in Milton.
Guanming started her MS program in CDAE in 1997 under the guidance of Qingbin Wang, moved to California for her Ph.D. program at UC Berkeley when she completed her MS program at UVM in August 1999, and is now an assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. As a highlight of her graduate study in CDAE, Guanming was the recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award from the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association. She has also co-authored three journal articles with Qingbin Wang. Guanming's current email is gshi@wisc.edu
Wei grew up in Beijing and graduated from the People's University in Beijing with a BS in international trade in 1998. She started her graduate program in CDAE in Spring 2000 and competed her MS in CDAE in summer 2001 (only three semesters) under the guidance of Qingbin Wang. She moved from Burlington to East Lasing in Michigan in August 2001 to start her Ph.D. program at Michigan State University. Wei has co-authored two journal articles with Qingbin Wang. She is now working for the World Bank.
Michael started his MS program in CDAE in 1997 and moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio, when he completed his MS program in 1999. Michael is now a mathematics teacher at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Please visit Michael's website http://www.mbuescher.com/ for more pictures and information.
Tun started his MS program in CDAE in August 1997 after he completed his undergraduate program at the People' University in Beijing. After he competed his MS program in CDAE in 1999, he worked in Washington, D.C., for one year and then moved to London to start his Ph.D. program in economics at the Cambridge University in 2000. He earned his Ph.D. in 2005 and is now working with the World Bank.
Charles Kerchner (MS in CDAE, 2006)
Charles received his Master’s degree in Applied Economics and a certificate in Ecological Economics from the University of Vermont in 2006, and a BA in Anthropology and a Minor in Economics from Lafayette College in 2000. He currently works as a Project Coordinator and Instructor in the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont. Charles serves as the Project Leader for the Performance-based Environmental Policies for Agriculture (PEPA) initiative – a pilot-test project in Vermont that designs performance-based incentives for environmental conservation. He is also working on an integrated watershed management project in St. Lucia, which complements over five years of work on conservation related issues in the Caribbean and Latin America. Charles is a PhD student in environmental policy program at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, focusing on financial incentives for watershed conservation and Payments for Environmental Services.