Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 1955) is a British businessman, academic, director of United Business Media 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).

He lectures part-time at the London School of Economics.

Since 2002, he has chaired a UK government enquiry into pensions.

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 Source, Register of Lords Interests, Accessed April 2007

External link

• Biography of Adair Turner at the Pensions Commission

Reference

• Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords