to make carbon-free baseload electricity less costly than electricity from coal by the year 2025. Honoured On 7 September 2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, of Ecchinswell in the County of Hampshire, awarded in recognition of his public service to the nation (he has a cottage in Ecchinswell). He sits as a crossbencher. In 2016 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. Personal life In 1985 he married Orna Ní Chionna, whom he met at McKinsey. She comes from Ireland, and was born c. 1956. She was Chair of the council of the Soil Association and a non-executive director of Northern Foods. Orna is a non-executive director of Royal Mail plc. References External links FSA – Official Biography Biography of Adair Turner at the former Pensions Commission Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 12 October 2005 Times profile 4 December 2005 Times article 25 November 2005 Guardian profile 25 November 2005 Adair Turner Biography Lord Turner to join Soros-funded think tank (BBC News | Business) BBC Radio 4 Profile 1955 births Living people People from Crawley Businesspeople from Ipswich People educated at Glenalmond College People educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British business writers McKinsey & Company people Turner of Ecchinswell Crossbench life peers Presidents of the Cambridge Union Social Democratic Party (UK) politicians Global Apollo Programme Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society Institute for New Economic Thinking Life peers created by Elizabeth II