Dame Helen Ghosh has announced she will be leaving her role as Director General of the National Trust [Alliance member] in March, next year.
Helen, who has led the conservation charity since 2012, will take up a new position as the Master of Balliol College, at Oxford University. The Trust said it would begin the process of looking for a new Director General in the autumn. Helen will remain in post until March 2018. She begins her new role at Oxford in April.
Commenting on her decision to step down, Helen said: ‘There is never a good time to leave a job that you love, so the decision was a very tough one… I am enormously proud of all the Trust has achieved over the past five years, with the conservation of nature and heritage at the heart of what we do and an extraordinary growth in membership, support and visits.’