Professor Jeremy Alastair Peat OBE FRSE (born 20 March 1945) is a member of the Competition Commission and former director of the David Hume Institute.
He worked as an economist for various UK Government departments - including a brief spell at HM Treasury and eight years at the Scottish Office - and also carried his economic toolkit to assignments overseas, to Bangkok in 1972-74 and Botswana in 1980–84.
In 1993 he was appointed Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland, a position he held for 12 years.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh where he also serves as Vice President of Business,[2] and the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and is a member of the Competition Commission.
Peat lives in Roslin Glen, Midlothian, and is a member of the Project Committee for the conservation of Rosslyn Chapel.