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.
