Adair Turner
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 Adair Turner    (businessman, academic) | |
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| Born | 5 October 1955 |
| Nationality | UK |
| Alma mater | Hutchesons' Grammar School, Gonville and Caius College (Cambridge) |
| Member of | British-American Project, Centre for European Reform, Franco-British Colloque, Group of Thirty, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Königswinter/Speakers, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1996 |
| Interests | • Social Democratic Party (UK) • universal basic income |
Adair Turner is a British businessman.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2009 | 23 January 2009 | 27 January 2009 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2011 | 26 January 2011 | 30 January 2011 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality". |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
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