Debating Capitalism: Lord Adair Turner in conversation

28 January 2019 - 17:30

Hertford Conversations are delighted to be hosting the third talk of our Debating Capitalism series with Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College.

Lord Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, is the current Chairman of the Institute of New Economic Thinking. However, prior to joining the Institute and from 2008 to 2013, he chaired the UK Financial Services Authority, where he played a leading role in redesigning global banking and regulations.

As a titan of industry, his appointments include positions at management consultants McKinsey & Co, the Directorship of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and a Vice Chairmanship at Merrill Lynch Europe. In addition, he has been a non-Executive director at several companies and is currently an advisor to the Board of UK start-up bank OakNorth. Lord Turner has also been since 2005 a cross-bencher in the House of Lords.

His career has spanned different areas from business, to policy and academia. His latest book ‘Between Debt and the Devil’ was published in 2015 by Princeton and translated into Chinese.

Come and join us in the Baring Room, Hertford College, on Monday 28 January. Tickets are free and are available through Eventbrite.

Find out more about our series of debates at www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/capitalism

Where is today’s capitalist economy headed?

“There are fewer and fewer defenders, even among business leaders, of the way the current system operates which – despite its capacity to create jobs – brings growing levels of inequality, poor levels of investment, ever more job insecurity and the diminution of the concept of career. Trust in business is falling to new levels. But with little appetite for a return to the socialist economy of the twentieth century, how can capitalism best be reformed or transformed? Hertford Conversations launches a series of debates with leading thinkers – Debating Capitalism.”

Will Hutton, Principal