Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and Environmental Audit Committee
28 April 2026
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and Environmental Audit Committee House of Commons
00:05 - 00:38
Speaker 1
Order. Order. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this joint meeting of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environmental Audit Committees. The purpose for our meeting jointly this morning is for a pre appointment hearing for the chair of the office for environmental protection. We have one witness this morning, Dame Helm Gosch.
Can we invite you we'll welcome you to the committee first of all, and invite you, Dame Helen, just to introduce yourself for the benefit of our own record and for those who are following our proceedings.
00:39 - 01:39
Speaker 2
Thank you. I'm Dame Helen Ghosh. I was for thirty years a civil servant in a variety of departments, laterally at as the permanent secretary at DEFRA and then at the home office. I left the civil service in 2012. I moved to become director general of the National Trust, building on my origins as a historian, as a student, and the experience I'd had in a variety of departments since then on the environment.
I was at the National Trust for six years, very enjoyable time, and left there in 2018 when I moved to higher education to become the master of Balliol College in Oxford University. I stepped down from that role at the end of this university term in June, at the June, after eight years in that role.
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