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