Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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Full Name	Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
Occupation	Businessperson
Date Of Birth	Oct 5, 1955(1955-10-05)
Age	69
Birthplace	Ipswich
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Ipswich
Horoscope	Capricorn

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Biography

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is one of the most popular and richest Businessperson who was born on October 5, 1955 in Ipswich, Ipswich, United Kingdom. Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 5 October 1955) is a British businessman and academic and was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority until its abolition in March

2013. He is a former Chairman of the Pensions Commission and the Committee on Climate Change, as well as a former Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. He has described himself in a BBC HARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur as a ‘technocrat’. He is a vocal advocate of the so-called “helicopter money” idea whereby central banks would directly finance government spending or cash distribution to citizens. Since 2010, he has written monthly opinion columns on economic and regulatory policy for Project Syndicate.

In 2002, he chaired a UK government enquiry into pensions. In 2007, he succeeded Frances Cairncross as Chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council and Baroness Jay as Chair of the Overseas Development Institute’s Council.

He did not apologise for the actions of the FSA, which had presided over the near-total collapse of several major banks, and accepted that it had not foreseen the consequences for Lloyds Bank of its merger with the ailing HBOS in September 2008. Despite controversy over bonuses for employees of Lloyds, he sought to justify bonuses averaging 15 per cent for his own 2,500 staff, arguing “If you’re saying we should now cut the bonuses [of FSA employees], you’re saying you should cut their pay by 15%”.

On 29 May 2008, it was announced that he would take over as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority. He took up this post on 20 September 2008 for a five-year term to succeed Callum McCarthy.

In 1985 he married Orna Ní Chionna, whom he met at McKinsey. She comes from Ireland, and was born c. 1956. She was Chair of the council of the Soil Association and a non-executive director of Northern Foods. Orna is a non- executive director of Royal Mail plc.

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Net Worth

Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is one of the richest Businessperson from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He taught economics part-time after university. His career with BP started in 1979 and he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank from 1979 to 1982. He became a director of McKinsey & Co in 1994 after joining in 1982. Turner was Director- General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) from 1995 to 1999. In this role he became one of the leading proponents of British membership of the euro – a stance he later said was mistaken. From 2000 to 2006 he was Vice- Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe.

Adair Turner was born in Ipswich. He grew up in Crawley and East Kilbride (both new towns. His father Geoffrey was a University of Liverpool-educated town planner). Adair attended Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow, then moved to Argyll where he attended Glenalmond College. He later went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took a Double first in History and Economics and became President of the Cambridge Union. He was also Chairman of the University’s Conservative Association. He joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981.

On 7 September 2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, of Ecchinswell in the County of Hampshire, awarded in recognition of his public service to the nation (he has a cottage in Ecchinswell). He sits as a crossbencher.

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In April 2013, it was announced that Lord Turner would be joining George Soros’ economic think tank as a senior research fellow in its London offices. From that, he wrote a book “Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance” Princeton University Press, 2016 ISBN 9781400873326

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Adair Ranked on the list of most popular Businessperson. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell celebrates birthday on October 5 of every year.

In 2016 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society