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Jeremy Peat (born March 1945) is a banker and trust member of the BBC.

Peat trained as an economist at Bristol University and University College London. 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. He was Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland, and from 1 July 2005 became the Director of the David Hume Institute.

He was appointed to the Board of Governors of the BBC for four years from 1 January 2005 and is the National Trustee for Scotland. As Trustees serve four year terms, his term as a BBC Trustee comes to an end in January 2009.

Peat is Vice Chair of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland. He lives in Roslin Glen, Midlothian, and is a member of the Project Committee for the conservation of Rosslyn Chapel. He is married with two daughters.