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Mr. Adkerson is the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. He also serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of McMoRan Exploration Co. (MMR).
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 on the Executive Board of the International Copper Association and the Board of the International Council on Mining and Metals. He is President of the Mississippi State University Foundation Board of Directors chairs its State of the Future capital campaign and serves on the University’s Advisory Boards for the College of Business and Industry and the Agribusiness Institute. He serves on the Board of Trustees of The National World War II Museum the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors the Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region the Development Board of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes of New Orleans the Board of New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation the Louisiana State University Ourso College of Business Executive Board of Advisors the Xavier University President’s Council and the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Foundation Board. 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. | 