Wendell C. Brase
Wendell C. Brase chairs the University of California’s Climate Solutions Steering Group and leads an award-winning sustainability program in his role as vice chancellor for administrative and business services at the University of California, Irvine. Under his direction, Irvine received the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award for Climate Change in 2008; and since then, the campus has earned numerous accolades for sustainability, including a 2009 EPA Environmental Achievement Award and more LEED-NC Gold awards than any U.S. campus. In 2010, the campus ranked sixth on the Sierra Club’s list of greenest campuses. Wendell has been on campus since 1978. In 2002, the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) recognized him with its Distinguished Business Officer Award. Mr. Brase holds two degrees (S.B., S.M., 1970) from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.