BIOGRAPHY

Professor Jo Maher | Pro-Vice Chancellor for Sport, Loughborough University 

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Professor Jo Maher is Pro-Vice Chancellor for Sport at Loughborough University and Professor of Practice in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences. She is a member of the FA Council and its National Game Board, Chair of the FA Development Committee and former Chair of the English Colleges Football Association. Jo is a current member of the DCMS Board for Women’s Sport and previously worked for the Department of Education serving the FE Commissioner on the Principal’ Reference group.

 

After a 17-year career in Further Education, serving as a Principal and CEO for seven years at Boston College and Loughborough College respectively, she built on Loughborough’s sporting success securing a £12.5m world class sports hall and supporting 15 national sports governing body partnerships with over 2,000 elite athletes per year. Jo is a qualified teacher, assessor, former Chartered Scientist, and internationally published academic. Specialising in professional competence in sports psychology, Jo has presented her research at conferences both in the UK and abroad. Working in professional football Jo has spent time supporting high performance environments as well as supporting individual elite athletes including Olympic standard.