Helen Ghosh Politician

Dame Helen Frances Ghosh DCB (born 21 February 1956) is Director General of the National Trust. She was formerly a British civil servant, and until November 2012 was Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, having moved from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) at the end of 2010. At the time of her appointment at Defra, she was the only female permanent secretary to head a major department of the British Government.

Personal facts

Helen Ghosh
Birth dateFebruary 21, 1956
Birth place
Farnborough Hampshire
Education
Hertford College Oxford
St Hugh's College Oxford

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Office holder

office
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Director General of the National Trust
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
successor
Bronwyn Hill

Helen Ghosh on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=6924&topic=Central%20government