Sarah Healey
Sarah Healey | |
|---|---|
| Permanent Secretary at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | |
| Assumed office 1 April 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Minister | Jeremy Wright Baroness Morgan Oliver Dowden Nadine Dorries |
| Preceded by | Dame Sue Owen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sarah Elizabeth Fitzpatrick 1975 |
| Nationality | British |
| Residence | East Dulwich, SE22 |
Sarah Elizabeth Healey CB (née Fitzpatrick; born 1975) is a British civil servant, appointed as Permanent Secretary for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in March 2019.[1]
Life[]
She read Modern History and English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating BA, before pursuing further studies in Social Policy at the London School of Economics (MSc). As Sarah Fitzpatrick, she received much media attention when captaining the Magdalen team which won University Challenge. Having entered HM Civil Service into the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit in the Cabinet Office in 2001,[2][3] she served in the Department for Education as the director for Strategy and Performance for a year from 2009,[4] and then as director for Education Funding 2010–2013, and then in the Department for Work and Pensions as director for Private Pensions for just under a year in 2013.[5][6]
In December 2013, Healey was promoted Director General in the then-Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In mid 2016, she joined the new Department for Exiting the European Union as one of their two Directors General. After two years at DExEU, she moved to replace Shona Dunn as the head of the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat.[2]
In March 2019, it was announced that Healey had been further promoted, returning to DCMS to be the Permanent Secretary, replacing Dame Sue Owen.[1]
Healey was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2019.[7][8]
References[]
- ^ a b "Appointment of new Permanent Secretary at DCMS". GOV.UK. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- ^ a b "Sarah Healey - Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy". www.csap.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
- ^ "Sarah Healey - Civil Service Quarterly". quarterly.blog.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
- ^ Halpern, David (2010). The Hidden Wealth of Nations. Polity. p. 275. ISBN 9780745648019.
- ^ "Sarah Healey | Key Negotiators | Project Brexit". The Whitehouse Consultancy. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
- ^ "The people who are negotiating Brexit". BBC News. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
- ^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B3.
- ^ "MoD and DCMS perm secs among civil servants recognised in Queen's birthday honours". Civil Service World. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- English people of Irish descent
- Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- British civil servants
- British Permanent Secretaries
- Companions of the Order of the Bath
- FitzPatrick dynasty