Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Profile
Episode: Dame Helen Ghosh
Description: The most senior official at the Home Office is resigning after a 33-year civil service career.
Dame Helen Ghosh - who has led the department since January 2011 - will take up the role of director general of the National Trust.
She is one of a number of permanent secretaries who have left the civil service this year. She said she was "torn about leaving" but the chance to work for the National Trust was "a rare opportunity".
Dame Helen Ghosh has worked in Government since 1979 for both Conservative and Labour Ministers. Her tenure included controversy at Defra over the...