Jeane Freeman is a consultant in public affairs. She was founder and Chief Executive of Apex Scotland between 1987 and 2000 when she joined the senior civil service in Scotland, working in education. She was a member of both the McLean and Cosgrove expert committees considering effective sentences and work with violent and sexual offenders. In 2002 she was appointed as senior political policy adviser to the First Minister and in 2005, she left government to start her own company. Jeane was a member of the Parole Board for Scotland from 1995 to 2000 and again from 2006 to 2011. She was appointed as a non executive member of the Board of the Scottish Police Services Authority in 2010 and as Chair of the Board of the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in January 2011.