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Jeremy Peat

Jeremy Peat

Reporting Panel Member

Biography

Jeremy Peat (appointed in 2005) is Director of the Edinburgh-based David Hume Institute and a board member of Scottish Enterprise. 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. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Professor at Heriot Watt University, Chair of Trustees of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and a board member of 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
  • Chair of Trustees, 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: Member of the Lay Committee of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh (December 2011 - April 2012)
  • 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)