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'''Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell''' (born 1955) is Chair of the [[Financial Services Authority]], the UK's financial watchdog. 

Lord Turner has combined careers in business, public policy and academia - he lectures part-time at the [[London School of Economics]]. He described himself in a [[BBC]] HARDtalk interview with [[Stephen Sackur]] as a 'technocrat'. 

==Career history==
*In January 2008 Turner was appointed Chair of the government's new [[Climate Change Committee]], whose job is to set national targets for CO2 reductions, and to monitor the government’s performance in achieving them. 
*From 1995 to 1999 he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry. 
*He chaired the Low Pay Commission from 2002 until 2006 and the Pensions Commission until August 2006. 
*He was vice-chair of Merrill Lynch Europe from 2000 until 2006. 
*He previously worked for [[BP]] and [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] before joining [[McKinsey & Company]] in 1982.
*A [[Glenalmond College]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] graduate ([[Gonville and Caius College]]) and past president of the [[Cambridge Union]].

==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.

==Affiliations==
*[[Economic and Social Research Council]], Chair of Council

===Remunerated directorships===
*Director of [[United Business Media]] plc
*Director of [[Siemens]] plc
*Director of Paternoster Holdings Ltd
*Director of [[Standard Chartered]] plc (from 1 August 2006)

===Regular remunerated employment===

I am the sole employee of [[Titcomb Ltd]], which provides occasional consulting advice and conference speech services to a variety of clients

===Controlling shareholdings===
I am the sole shareholder of Titcomb Ltd, which provides the services described under para 12 (f) above

===Office-holder in voluntary organisations===

*Trustee of [[Worldwide Fund for Nature]] (WWF) UK
*Trustee of [[Cambridge Foundation]]
*Trustee of [[Save the Children]] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg/reg23.htm Source, Register of Lords Interests], Accessed April 2007

==External link==
*[http://www.pensionscommission.org.uk/about/at.asp Biography of Adair Turner at the Pensions Commission]

==Reference==
*[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/minutes/051012/ldminute.htm Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords]

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