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 Jackie and Sarah discuss how to carve a career in an uncertain world

About the Speakers

Jackie Ashley is a journalist, broadcaster and campaigner, and was Lucy’s 8th President (2015-2018). She was a producer and newsreader on Newsnight, a reporter on TV-am, a producer and reporter on Channel 4, and was ITN’s political correspondent. Jackie then moved from television to journalism, becoming the political editor of the New Statesman, and a columnist and political interviewer for The Guardian.

During lockdown, Jackie was appointed chair of The National Brain Appeal, which raises funds to advance treatment and research at The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, and the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Sarah Sands is the Board Director at Hawthorn Advisors. She previously worked at the BBC, where she was editor of the Today programme, Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme. She was previously editor of the London Evening Standard, the first woman to edit The Sunday Telegraph and deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Sarah is an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a Visiting Fellow to the Reuters Institute. She is chairwoman of the political think tank Bright Blue, a patron of National Citizen Service, sits on the board of London First and was chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.