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Helen MacNamara

Chair

Helen MacNamara wears a black shirt and stands against a grey background.

Helen is Shelter's Chair of Trustees. Helen is currently Chair of the Future Governance Forum, an Associate Partner at Robey Warshaw, and a founding Trustee of the Heywood Foundation. Helen was previously Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at the Premier League and before that spent nearly two decades in the Civil Service – latterly as Deputy Cabinet Secretary but before that in various roles including the Director General of Housing in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport including working on the 2012 Olympics. Before joining the Civil Service Helen worked in the digital and creative industries.