Professor Turner's career includes seven years with the UK chemical company, ICI and ten years with Levi Strauss Europe where his various postings included two years as Director of Strategic Planning, and three as Marketing Director for Spain. He left Levi's in order to launch his own clothing marketing company, after which he subsequently acquired and managed another small company, both in Spain.

Since 1999 he has been a Professor at INSEAD in the area of entrepreneurship, specifically teaching MBA courses on acquisitions and new business creation on both the Fontainebleau and Singapore campuses.

In January 2003 he relocated to the Singapore campus to launch the new International Centre for Entrepreneurship, the objective of which is to create unique intellectual assets that help INSEAD achieve pre-eminence in transforming the study and teaching of entrepreneurship beyond borders.

In addition to the entrepreneurship courses he teaches at INSEAD, Professor Turner has taught courses in France, Spain and South America. He is co-author of a book on "Entrepreneurship in Asia" published by John Wiley & Sons in March 2005, and is currently working on another book on entrepreneurship to be published by the same publisher later this year.

Aside from professional interests, his major passion is classical music, and in 1999 he published a book on Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations.

Professor Turner holds a BA from Oxford University, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Entrepreneurship.

Management buy-ins; Managing acquisitions; Managing growing companies; Creativity and innovation; New Venture Creation.