Professor Jeremy Alastair Peat (born 20 March 1945) is a member of the
Competition Commission
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and former director of the David Hume Institute. He is a former member of the
BBC Trust
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, the governing body of the
British Broadcasting Corporation #REDIRECT BBC
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, where he was the Scottish Trustee.
Career
Peat trained as an economist at
Bristol University
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and
University College London
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. He worked as an economist for various UK Government departments - including a brief spell at
HM Treasury
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and eight years at the
Scottish Office
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- and also carried his economic toolkit to assignments overseas, to
Bangkok
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in 1972-74 and
Botswana
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in 1980-84.
In 1993 he was appointed Group Chief Economist at the
Royal Bank of Scotland
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, a position he held for 12 years. On 1 July 2005 Peat was appointed the Director of the
David Hume Institute, a position which he held until 2019.
He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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where he also serves as Vice President of Business, and the
Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland
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and is a member of the
Competition Commission
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. He previously served as Chair of Trustees of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, board member of the Signet Accreditation Company and board member of
Scottish Enterprise
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.
Peat received an Honorary Doctorate from
Heriot-Watt University
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in 2010 and is a visiting professor at the International Public Policy Institute at the
University of Strathclyde
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.
BBC
Peat joined the BBC on 1 January 2005 as the National Governor for Scotland on the former
BBC Board of Governors, he replaced
Sir Robert Smith (now Lord Smith of Kelvin).
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New National Governor for Scotland Appointed During his time on the board he was the chairman of the Audit Committee, a position Sir Robert also held. He was also the Chairman of the BBC Pension Board Trustees.
Upon the formation of the
BBC Trust
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, Peat was one of four Governors (including
Richard Tait,
Dermot Gleeson and then Chairman
Michael Grade
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) who transitioned to the new governing body of the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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