Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of companies and energy experts. It conducts technoeconomic analysis of how to achieve low and eventually net zero emissions in all sectors of the economy, and argues for the public policies and private sector investments which will achieve that objective.

He is an independent member of the House of Lords, Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Energy Institute.

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

He holds roles in industry too: he is the Chairman of insurer group Chubb Europe; Chairman of UK bank Oaknorth Ltd.; and on the Board of Envision Galaxy (part of Envision Group). More recently he was appointed adviser to Watershed Technologies Inc.

During his public policy career, Lord Turner chaired the Financial Services Authority (2008-2013) where he played a lead role in the redesign of global banking and shadow banking regulation. From 2008 to 2012 he chaired the Climate Change Committee, an independent body overseeing the UK’s government on their path to a zero-carbon economy. Their first set of recommendations were adopted by the UK government in full. Between 2002 and 2006 Lord Turner chaired the UK Pensions Commission and recommended the creation of a system of defined contribution pensions with an ‘opt-out’ element that proved transformative. He also chaired the Low Pay Commission (2002-2006) and was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000). Lord Turner is the author of “Between Debt and the Devil” (Princeton 2015), and Economics after the Crisis (MIT 2012).