Jackie Ashley is Chair of the National Brain Appeal which funds research and capital projects concerning all aspects of brain injury. She was previously President, Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge, and before that was a political journalist for more than 30 years. Jackie worked at the BBC, ITN, Channel 4, the Guardian and the New Statesman and wrote regularly about health and social care issues. Her husband, the broadcaster Andrew Marr, suffered a major stroke in 2013 and Jackie was his full-time carer for a year.