Professor Jennifer Latto is the Adviser on Higher Education to Government Office for the North West and the North West Development Agency.  After reading psychology at Cambridge University, she trained and practised as an Educational Psychologist in Essex and Cheshire, and then returned in 1972 to Cambridge to work on self fulfilling prophecies in education.

Appointed as a lecturer in Educational Psychology in 1979, she held a succession of posts as Head of Education and Dean of Education, Health & Social Science at Liverpool John Moores University, where she was awarded a Chair in Educational Psychology in 1991.  She became Provost and the Deputy to the Vice Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 1994-2002.

She has been a Trustee of Tate, the national gallery of modern and British art, and Chair of Tate Liverpool Council since 1998. From April 2005 she will also chair the Heritage Lottery Fund North West.