Helen MacNamara (opens in new tab)

She is the former Deputy Cabinet Secretary and spent two decades in the Civil Service running the Cabinet Secretariat for two stints between 2019 and 2021 and during the coalition government in 2013-15. Helen was the Director General for Housing and Planning in the Department for Communities and Local Government and spent 10 years in the Department for Culture Media and Sport. At DCMS she was Tessa Jowell's Principal Private Secretary, set up and ran the response to the Leveson Inquiry and wa...