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Dr. McFarland joined Newpark’s Board of Directors in November, 2006. Dr. McFarland is the J. F. Jr. and Jessie Lee Seinsheimer Chair in Business and Professor of Finance and Economics in the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Entergy-Tulane Energy Institute. Previously, Dr. McFarland was the Dean of the Freeman School from July 1, 1988, through June 30, 2005. Prior to joining the faculty at Tulane, he was the Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Houston. Dr. McFarland also has served on the faculties of Texas A&M University, the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of New Mexico. In addition to his academic appointments, he has worked as a researcher for the University of California Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Presidential Commission on the Nation’s Water Resources. Dr. McFarland has served as a director and consultant to public companies and non-profit organizations, including Stewart Enterprises, Inc., Sizeler Property Investors, Inc., Petroleum Helicopters, Inc., and American Indemnity Financial Corporation, Inc. Dr. McFarland received a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. | 