# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adair-turner-baron-turner-of-ecchinswell
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:18:43.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adair-turner-baron-turner-of-ecchinswell"
name: "Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell"
slug: "adair-turner-baron-turner-of-ecchinswell"
description: "Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is a British businessman and academic who was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority during the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession, serving from September 2008 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'."
tagline: "British businessman (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Lord_Turner_of_Ecchinswell_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.697410666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair_Turner"
    title: "Adair Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair_Turner%2C_Baron_Turner_of_Ecchinswell"
    title: "Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair_Turner%2C_Baron_Turner_of_Ecchinswell"
    title: "Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adair_Turner%2C_Baron_Turner_of_Ecchinswell"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair_Turner"
    title: "Adair Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adair_Turner"
    title: "Adair Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346975"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump