Rex Adams

Rex Adams (born 1941) was a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and is currently serving as Chairman and Non-Executive Director (USA) of the Invesco Board of Directors.cite web|title=Meet our Board of Directors|publisher=Invesco|url=http://www.invesco.com/about/board.html|accessdate=2008-07-02] In 2001, he was elected chairman of the Board of Directors for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).cite web|title=Rex Adams of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business succeeds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Chairman Colin Cambell as PBS Board Chairman|publisher=PBS|url=http://www.pbs.org/aboutpbs/news/20011031_rexadams.html|accessdate=2008-07-02|date=2001-10-31]

Adams had previously served as the Dean of the Fuqua School of Business from 1996 to 2001; before that appointment, he had worked for the Mobil Corporation for 31 years. [cite web|title=Meet the CASE team!|publisher=Duke: The Fuqua School of Business|url=http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/case/about/caseteam/#rex|accessdate=2008-07-02] Adams graduated from Duke magna cum laude in 1962;cite web|url=http://www.secinfo.com/dsvRu.4FAM9.htm|title=Appointment of Mr Rex D Adams|publisher=Securities and Exchange Commission|accessdate=2008-07-02] he was selected for a Rhodes Scholarship that year, and studied nineteenth-century English history at Merton College.

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