Terence Burns, Baron Burns
Terence ( Terry ) Burns, Baron Burns, GCB ( born March 13, 1944 in Hetton -Le- Hole, County Durham ) is a British economist and politician.
Life and career
Background, education and vocational
Terence Burns was born the son of Patrick Owen Burns, a miner, and Doris Burns in Hetton -Le- Hole, a small mining town in County Durham and grew up there as well. He attended the Houghton- le-Spring Grammar School and the University of Manchester, where he graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. After that, he began his academic career as a researcher at the London School of Economics; In 1979 he became a professor of Economics.
Work for the government
His work for the British government, he began with the British Financial and Economic Affairs as a member of HM Treasury Academic Panel ( 1976-1979 ). Burns was seen as supporters of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a " Thatcherite ". In 1980, he was by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe as a senior economic adviser ( Chief Economic Advisor) and Head of the Government Economic Service appointed. He held from 1980 to 1991 These positions; 1991-1998 he worked as State Secretary (Permanent Secretary ) at HM Treasury. Burns was from 1999 to 2001 member of the Commission on Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Hansard Society. He was a member of the Scottish fairy Support Review ( 1998-2000). Burns ' relationship with the former treasure chancellors of Howe to Kenneth Clarke was generally considered good; in relationship with Gordon Brown, it should be also been tension.
He was also Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales ( 2000). In June 2000, Burns published its investigation report on the hunts with dogs, called the Burns Inquiry. Burns putting forward an analysis of the economic, labor market and socio - cultural implications of the Hetz and hunts in the UK.
He was 2000-2001 President ( Chairman ) of the National Lottery Commission. In 2003 he was an adviser (Independent Adviser ) the Secretary of State for the BBC Charter Review appointed.
Positions in business
Burns in 1999, non-executive director of the media group Pearson plc, 2004, he was Senior Independent Director. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Legal and General Group plc (1999-2001), while from 2000 to 2001 Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Audit Committee, as well as the real estate company, The British Land Company plc ( 2000-2005). In July 2000 he was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of glass Cymru Ltd ( Welsh Water ).
In February 2002, he was Chairman of the British bank Abbey National plc and former building society; there he was before 2001 Deputy Chairman ( Deputy Chairman ). In December 2004, he was Non-Executive Director of Banco Santander Central Hispano SA. Between 2006 and 2008 he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the British retail company Marks and Spencer after he had since 2005, previously Deputy Chairman ( Deputy Chairman ).
On 5 November 2009 he was announced as the Chairman designate ( Chairman ) Channel 4 as the successor of Luke Johnson, who stepped down after six years on January 27, 2010. Since 2010 he has been Chairman ( Chairman ) Channel 4 Television Corporation.
More offices
From 1993 to 1998 he was a member of the Board of Directors (Board of Management ) of the Management Manchester Business School. Burns was 1999 Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Financial Services and Markets Joint Commission.
Burns is since 1998 President of the Society of Business Economists, previously he was Vice President since 1985. Since 2003 he is President of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, earlier, he had become the Director ( Governor ). He is also Vice-President ( Vice - President) of the Royal Economic Society.
He was appointed Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, following he was since 1998 member of the Trusteeship Council in 2001. He was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Board ( Governing Body ) of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was since 1998 Director ( Governor ) 2002. From 1996 to 2001 he was a non-executive director of Queens Park Rangers. 2004 Burns Chairman ( Chairman ) of the FA Structural Review of the UK's leading Football Association The Football Association has been appointed; it issued its final report on 12 August 2005.
Membership in the House of Lords
Burns was appointed on 13 June 1998 in recognition of his service as a former senior economic adviser ( Chief Economic Advisor) and Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury, for life peer as Baron Burns, of Pitshanger in the London Borough of Ealing. His official introduction to the House of Lords took place on 29 July 1998 with the support of David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury and Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell. There he sits as a cross Bencher. His inaugural address was delivered on 13 October 1998.
On meeting days, Burns attend irregularly.
Burns Knight Bachelor in 1983 and received the 1995 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB ). He is the recipient of honorary doctorates and professorships from several British universities, including the University of Sunderland and the University of Sheffield.
Burns is a Fellow of the London Business School since 1989. Besides, he was in 2012 an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University. From 1991 to 1997 he was a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College. He was Companion of the Institute of Management in 1992.
Family
Burns is married to Anne Elizabeth Powell since 1969. They have a son and two daughters.
Publications
- The Interpretation and Use of Economic Predictions: Discussion, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Volume 407, Issue 1832, 1986, ISBN unknown ( with A. Britton, Randolph Quirk, Peter Mathias and John Mason)
- The UK Government 's Financial Strategy, Publisher unknown, 1988, ISBN unknown