NEW DELHI: Jon Zeff is quitting his post as director of the BBC Trust just nine months after taking over, to “pursue other opportunities.”

Zeff was presently earning around ?180,000 (€250,000) a year.

A previous veteran official with the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Zeff will be replaced by the Trust’s deputy director Alex Towers.

Zeff played a key role advising the Trust’s new chairperson Rona Fairhead, who has been embroiled in controversy over her ?10,000 a day consulting with HSBC bank. She eventually gave up her banking role.

The Trust is likely to be dismantled by whoever wins the general election following a string of scandals at the corporation; with Fairhead conceding last month that reform was inevitable.