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Keynote speaker 

Kathleen L. Quirk, President and Chief Executive Officer, Freeport-McMoRan Inc. 

Kathleen L. Quirk is President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (Freeport).

Ms. Quirk joined Freeport in 1989 and has had responsibility for a broad range of corporate functions, including Tax, Investor Relations, Corporate Development and Treasury before being named Chief Financial Officer in 2003. During that period, she was named Best CFO in Metals and Mining by Extel (formerly known as Institutional Investor magazine) on numerous occasions.

She was named President of Freeport in 2021, became a member of the Board of Directors in 2023 and became Chief Executive Officer in 2024.

As a senior member of the company’s executive team for more than 20 years, she has been instrumental in Freeport’s strategic planning and execution of company goals.

Ms. Quirk is a member of The Business Council and Business Roundtable and also serves on Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Board of Directors of the Council of the Americas. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vulcan Materials Company.

Ms. Quirk is a graduate of Louisiana State University

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