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Director Jeremy Peat was appointed as Director of The David Hume Institute with effect from 1 July 2005. In addition Jeremy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the BBC as National Trustee (formerly Governor) for Scotland and a member of the Competition Commission. He is also a columnist for both the Herald newspaper and Holyrood magazine, Chair of the BBC Pension Trust, an Honorary Professor at Heriot Watt University and a member of the board of The Signet Accreditation. Jeremy was Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland from early 1993 until he retired in March 2005. He trained as an economist at Bristol University and University College London. Prior to joining RBS, he worked as an economist for various UK Government departments - including a brief spell at HM Treasury and ultimately 8 years at the Scottish Office - and carried his economic toolkit to assignments overseas, to Bangkok in 1972-74 and Botswana in 1980-84. He was also for several years Vice Chair of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council.
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