Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 1955) is a British businessman, academic and chair of the Pensions Commission. He has described himself in a BBC HARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur as a 'technocrat'. A Glenalmond College and Cambridge University graduate (Gonville and Caius College) and past president of the Cambridge Union, Turner later pursued a career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co and then became Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). His career started with BP and Chase Manhattan Bank before he became a director of McKinsey & Co.[1] He lectures part-time at the London School of Economics. Since 2002, he has chaired a UK government enquiry into pensions. In 2007, he succeeded Frances Cairncross as Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Honoured
On 7 September 2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, of Ecchinswell in the County of Hampshire in recognition of his public service to the nation.
References
External links
- Biography of Adair Turner at the Pensions Commission
- Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 12 October 2005
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| Preceded by Howard Davies |
Director of the Confederation of British Industry 1995 - 99 |
Succeeded by Digby Jones |
