About Adair Turner
Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell (born 1955) is a British businessman, academic and chair of the Pensions Commission. He has described himself in a BBC HARDtalk interview with Stephen Sackur as a 'technocrat'.
Read MoreA 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).
His career started with BP and Chase Manhattan Bank before he became a director of McKinsey & Co.
He lectures part-time at the London School of Economics.
Since 2002, he has chaired a UK government enquiry into pensions. In 2007, he succeeded Frances Cairncross as Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council."
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