Lord turner biography

Lord Turner has held high profile roles in public policy: he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000); chairman of the UK Low Pay Commission (2002-2006); chairman of the Pensions Commision (2003-2006); he was the first chairman of the Climate Change Committee (2008-2012) an independent.
Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 5 October 1955) is a British businessman and academic who was Chairman of the Financial Services.
Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is a British businessman and academic who was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, serving from September 2008 until its.

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Adair Turner Keynote Speaker

Chairman, Energy Transitions Commission
Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
Author, 'Between Debt and the Devil' and "Capitalism in the Age of Robots" (2022)

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Adair Turner's Biography

Adair Turner is a popular and distinguished keynote speaker on a range of topics including: climate change related issues and the transition to cleaner energy, macroeconomic trends, the global monetary policy and the Chinese economy. He chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of major power and industrial companies, investors, environmental NGOs and experts working out achievable pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C by 2040 while stimulating economic development and social progress.

Adair remains a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which he chaired until January 2019. INET is dedicated to re-thinking the field of economics in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007. He is Chairman of Chubb Europe and on the Advisory Board of Envision Ener

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Lord Turner became Chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking in April 2015, where he was a Senior Fellow from 2013-15, and during which time he wrote his now published book Between Debt and the Devil – Money, Credit and Fixing global Finance (Princeton 2015). Prior to that he chaired the UK Financial Services Authority (2008-2013) and played a leading role in the redesign of the global banking and shadow banking regulation as Chairman of the International Financial Stability Board’s major policy committee.

Lord Turner has combined a business career with public policy and academia. He was at McKinsey from 1982-95, building McKinsey’s practice in East Europe and Russia in the early 1990s, and was Director General of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) 1995-2000. He was Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe (2000-06) and a Non-Executive Director of a number of companies, including Standard Chartered plc (2006-08). In 2015 he joined the Board of UK start-up bank OakNorth, and was appointed non-Executive Director at

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Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

British businessman (born 1955)

Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 5 October 1955) is a British businessman and academic who was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, serving from September 2008 until its abolition in March 2013. He is a former chairman of the Pensions Commission and the Committee on Climate Change, as well as a former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. He has described himself in a BBCHARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur as a 'technocrat'.

He is a vocal advocate of monetary financing and "helicopter money" whereby central banks would directly finance government spending or cash distribution to citizens.^[1]^[2] Since 2010, he has written monthly opinion columns^[3] on economic and regulatory policy for Project Syndicate.

Early life

Adair Turner was born in Ipswich. He grew up in Crawley and East Kilbride (both new towns. His father Geoffrey was a University of