Zara Asker

Zara Asker is the former Chairwoman of CHERUB.

Background
Zara Asker was born Jacqueline Oxford in Telford, Shropshire in 1970.

Her parents were TV documentary makers who died in a plane crash over the Amazon when Zara was just a toddler. She went to live with her Grandfather until he died of a heart attack in 1977.

Family
Zara lives in a cottage near to CHERUB campus with her husband Ewart, the current Chairman of CHERUB. Zara and Ewart have three children called Joshua, Tiffany and Jonah.

Career Record
1978: JOINED CHERUB AGE 8, PASSED BASIC TRAINING

1984: ATTAINED BLACK CHERUB SHIRT, BECOMING ONE OF THE YOUNGEST CHERUB AGENTS EVER TO DO SO.

1988: RETIRED AS AN AGENT AFTER 14 MISSIONS.

1989-91: ATTAINED A DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AT YALE UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES

1991-96: BEGAN WORKING FOR THE UNITED NATIONS. INITIALLY IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE POST IN NEW YORK, BEFORE WORKING ON PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

1996: REJOINED CHERUB AS ASSISTANT MISSION CONTROLLER

2000: PROMOTED TO MISSION CONTROLLER

2003: PROMOTED TO SENIOR MISSION CONTROLLER

2006: REPLACED DR McAFFERTY AS CHERUB CHAIRMAN

2016: Steps down from Chairwoman after a decade in this post. She takes on a part-time job as CHERUB's disciplinarian for severe breaches of CHERUB's policies in New Guard.