Jeremy Peat
Reporting Panel Member
Biography
Jeremy Peat (appointed in 2005) is Director of the Edinburgh-based David Hume Institute. Previously he was a member of the BBC Board of Trustees (from 2005 to 2010) and Chairman of the BBC Pension Trust (from 2005 to 2011). Prior to this he was Group Chief Economist at The Royal Bank of Scotland from 1993 to 2005 and an economic adviser to the Scottish Office, the Treasury and other government departments. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Professor at Heriot Watt University and a board member of both the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the Signet Accreditation Company. He recently held the position of Chairman of the local bus services market investigation from 2009 to 2011.
Register of interests
- Director, David Hume Institute
- Trustee and Board Member, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
- Honorary Professor, Heriot Watt University
- Board member, Scottish Enterprise (from 2011)
- Board member, Signet Accreditation Limited
- Columnist for the Herald
- Previously: Chairman of the BBC Pension Trust (2005-2011)
- Previously: BBC Governor and then Trustee for Scotland BBC (2005-2010)
- Previously: Group Chief Economist, Royal Bank of Scotland (until March 2005)
