Professor Hector MacQueen FBA FRSE is a Scottish Law Commissioner and Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh.  He was Director of the Institute from 1991-1998 and was appointed Chair of Trustees on 8 December 2011

Mr Jeremy Peat has been Director since 2005, having previously been Senior Economic Adviser at the Scottish Office from 1985 - 1993 and Group Chief Economist at RBS from 1993 - 2005. He is a regular commentator in the Scottish press. Jeremy was a member of the 'Expert Group' advising the Calman Commission on economic and financial matters and is now a member of the Church of Scotland Commission on the Purposes of Economic Activity. He is also a member of the Competition Commission and, until the end of 2010, BBC National Trustee for Scotland.

Stephen Boyle is Head of Group Economics and a director of RBS Pension Trustees Ltd, the Group’s main pension scheme. He first worked at RBS from 1996-2001 as Head of Business Economics. He returned to RBS in 2006, having established Futureskills Scotland. He has also worked in universities and was director of an economic consulting business.

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Ms Kyla Brand is the Office of Fair Trading Representative for Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland. Based in Edinburgh since 1999, Kyla has drawn on private sector experience in corporate social responsibility, market research in the Gulf states and a varied civil service career in the then DTI.

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Professor Alice Brown, CBE, FRSE, FRSA, AcSS: Emeritus Professor of Politics, and formerly Vice Principal, University of Edinburgh. Also Co-Director of the University's Institute of Governance.  Scottish Public Services Ombudsman from 2002-2009.  Currently member of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council; Sunningdale Fellow; and Chair of the Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 

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Mr Jo Elliot is a merchant banker. He was chief executive of his firm, Quayle Munro, up to 2007 and has specialised in projects at the public/private sector interface including privatisations and PFI/PPP, acting for the public authority or for the private sector counterparty. He has been a Governor of Edinburgh College of Art and has recently been appointed to join the Court of Dundee University. He is also a director of J W Galloway Ltd, which is one of the largest meat processors in Scotland, and of an investment trust Edinburgh New Income Trust plc.

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Mr Patrick Hodge (The Hon. Lord Hodge) is a Judge of the Court of Session. He became an advocate in 1983 and a QC in 1996. When in private practice he specialised in commercial and administrative law.  Between 1997 and 2003 he was a part-time commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission.  Between 2000 and 2005, when he joined the Scottish Bench, he was Procurator to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and a Judge in the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey. 

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Charlie Jeffery is the Director of the Academy of Government and has been Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh since 2004. He is also Head of the School of Social and Political Science (since 2009) and a Vice-Principal of the University, responsible for Public Policy (since 2011). Previously he was Professor of German Politics and Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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Dr Ken Lyall is Chairman of Walter Scott. He joined the company in 1983. He worked for several years with Arthur Andersen & Company in Glasgow and London. Ken graduated with an MA in Economics and Economic History and a PhD in Financial Economics both from the University of Edinburgh.

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