P.O.
Box 32058
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina 28608
(828) 262-6234
wood@appstate.edu
www.appstate.edu/~wood/
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Dr. David D. Wood, CPCU is the Joseph
F. Freeman Distinguished Professor of Insurance in
the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University.
He earned his Doctor of Business Administration degree from
Louisiana
Tech University, MBA from the University
of Mississippi and undergraduate degree from Delta
State University.
Dr. Wood joined the Appalachian faculty in 1985 and served
as Director of the Brantley Risk
and Insurance Center for eleven years prior to his appointment as Freeman
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As
center director, Dave helped secure private contributions to
endow the center's programs and activities. He has helped
develop the curriculum for the undergraduate risk and insurance
major and interacts closely with industry. Dave also
developed and directs the Insurance Executive Program, which
is a management development program for agents.
Dave
has received several awards from the university, including
the business college's Outstanding Service Award in 1996
and outstanding teaching awards from Appalachian's Alumni
Association and the UNC Board of Governors in 1995. He has
also received education awards from the N.C. Surplus Lines
Association, the Independent Insurance Agents' Association
of North Carolina, and an outstanding service award from
the N.C. Commissioner of Insurance.
Dave worked as an independent agent prior
to his career in education. He earned the CPCU designation
in 1994 and previously served as education consultant for
the CIC program in North Carolina. His research has
been published in the CPCU Journal, Journal of Management,
Journal of Insurance Issues and Practices, Journal of Reinsurance,
and the Journal of Economics and Finance.
He has also written numerous articles for trade publications.
Dave has served as a consultant to industry, an expert witness
in cases involving insurance contract interpretation and agents'
standard of care, and conducts insurance agency valuations.
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