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Mr. Adkerson serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of McMoRan Exploration Co. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
Mr. Adkerson graduated from Mississippi State University with a BS degree with highest honors and an MBA degree. He later completed the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Freeport-McMoRan in 1989, he was a Partner and Managing Director of Arthur Andersen & Co., where he headed the firm’s Worldwide Oil and Gas Industry Practice. From 1976 to 1978, he was a Professional Accounting Fellow with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and a Presidential Exchange Executive.
Mr. Adkerson currently serves as Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi State University Foundation Board of Directors, as well as on the Advisory Boards of the College of Business and Industry and the Agribusiness Institute of Mississippi State University. He serves on the Board of Trustees of The National D-Day Museum, is a member of the Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region, serves on the Development Board of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes of New Orleans, the Louisiana State University Ourso College of Business Executive Board of Advisors, the Xavier University President’s Council, the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors, the Board of Inroads and the Advisory Board of The Crosby Arboretum. He was named the Outstanding Accounting Alumnus of Mississippi State University in 1989 and the Outstanding Alumnus of Mississippi State University’s College of Business and Industry in 1991.
He has served on the board since 1994.
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