Sarah Healey
Sarah Elizabeth Healey is a British civil servant, currently serving as the Permanent Secretary for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Healey read for a BA in Modern History and English at Magdalen College, Oxford and an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. Having joined the civil service into the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit in the Cabinet Office, she served in the Department for Education as the director for strategy and performance for a year from 2009, 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.
In December 2013, Healey was promoted to be 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.
In March 2019, it was announced that Healey had been again promoted, returning to DCMS to be the permanent secretary, replacing Dame Sue Owen.
Healey was appointed as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2019 in June 2019.
