Investment NSW chief Amy Brown to leave agency that appointed John Barilaro to a New York trade role

Investment NSW’s chief executive, Amy Brown, says ‘the events of the past eight weeks’ have led her to believe she should focus on her work as a department secretary. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

The head of Investment New South Wales has announced that she will stand aside from the role amid a months-long saga over the appointment of former deputy premier John Barilaro to a lucrative New York trade job.

Amy Brown said she will instead focus on her other role, as the secretary of the Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade, after she departs as chief executive of Investment NSW.