Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of major power and industrial companies, investors, environmental NGOs and experts working out achievable pathways to limit global warming to 1.5C – or well below 2˚C – by 2040 while stimulating economic development and social progress.

In addition, he is Chairman of Chubb Europe and on the Advisory Board of Envision Energy. From 2008-2013, Lord Turner chaired the UK’s Financial Services Authority, and played a leading role in the post crisis redesign of global banking and shadow banking regulation.

Lord Turner has held high profile roles in public policy: he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000); chairman of the Pensions Commission (2003-2006); he was the first chairman of the Climate Change Committee (2008-2012) an independent body to advise the UK Government on tackling climate change. The recommendations set out in their first report "Building a low-carbon economy” were adopted in 2009.He became a cross bench member of the House of Lords in 2006.

Amongst his business roles, Lord Turner was at McKinsey&Co (1982-1995); was Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe (2000-2006) and a Non-Executive Director of a number of companies, including Standard Chartered plc (2006-2008).

He is honorary fellow of the Royal Society and holds an Honorary Degree from Cambridge University. He is the author of “Between Debt and the Devil” (Princeton 2015), and “Economics after the Crisis” (MIT 2012).

Lord Turner has advised climate and government bodies including the COP Presidency and ministers in the EU, UK, and Australia and is often featured in top-tier global media as an expert on the energy transition, including in the Financial Times, Economist, BBC, CNN and Bloomberg.