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 Inquiry from 2009 to 2011.