Nat Wei, Baron Wei
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Lord Wei is a social entrepreneur, interested in social reform, a member of the House of Lords and was previously an adviser to the UK Government on their Big Society project.
Lord Wei’s Chinese ancestry can be traced back to a village in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of the Guangdong province. His ancestral home is 2 villages away from that of Sun Yat-sen, whom incidentally, Lord Wei enjoys reading and learning about.
He is fluent in English, has a working knowledge of Chinese Cantonese, French and German. Lord Wei is also currently actively learning Chinese Mandarin from the Confucious Insitute of Business at the London School of Economics.
Lord Wei graduated from Oxford after which he worked at McKinsey & Company for three years, where he came to know Brett Wigdortz, who founded Teach First in 2002. In 2006, after three years at Teach First and a short stint in social venture capital, Wei joined the children's charity Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) where he helped to set up Future Leaders, a programme seeking to attract, develop and place high potential teachers and future leaders of urban schools.
Around the same time as helping to set up Future Leaders, in early 2006, Wei founded the Shaftesbury Partnership, an organisation which seeks to emulate the great social reformers of the Victorian era by creating scalable social reforms.
On 18 May 2010 at the launch of the New Coalition Government policies on Big Society to a group of community leaders, Lord Wei was appointed by Prime Minster David Cameron as a Government Adviser on Big Society.
At the same event, he was also appointed as a life peer. He was introduced in the House of Lords on 3 June 2010 as Baron Wei, of Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney. He is only the third ethnic Chinese member after Baroness Dunn (who is not domiciled in the UK) and the late Lord Chan, and is one of the youngest people to have been made a life peer, at the age of 33.
Lord Wei advised the Government on all aspects of taking forward the Big Society and driving implementation across government. During the initial phase, Wei worked on designing the approach to building the Big Society and engaged with civil society groups, alongside Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General and Nick Hurd MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering.
On 24 May 2011, Lord Wei announced his decision to step down from his role as Government Advisor on Big Society. The Prime Minister, David Cameron said "Nat has worked incredibly hard over two years to help develop policies that support the Big Society. He has played an important role in delivering key initiatives like Community Organisers, National Citizen Service, and the Big Society Bank. I wish him every success in his new role with the Community Foundation Network ."
Lord Wei has now joined the Community Foundation Network as a volunteer advisor to help drive the practical development of Big Society ideas in communities.
As the only ethnic Chinese peer in The House of Lords, Lord Wei also takes an interest in British Chinese community issues, particularly in social reform and also economic, cultural and cultural ties between the UK and China.
In April 2011, when Lord Wei was visiting China, he was presented an award by Phoenix Television for his achievements. Lord Wei is currently the most senior ethnic Chinese politician in the European Union.
Lord Wei is currently speaking to the British Chinese community to better understand the issues it is facing.
Note : If you'd like to contact Nat Wei, Baron Wei, please follow the instructions at the bottom of the Enquiries page.
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Lord Wei’s Chinese ancestry can be traced back to a village in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of the Guangdong province. His ancestral home is 2 villages away from that of Sun Yat-sen, whom incidentally, Lord Wei enjoys reading and learning about.
He is fluent in English, has a working knowledge of Chinese Cantonese, French and German. Lord Wei is also currently actively learning Chinese Mandarin from the Confucious Insitute of Business at the London School of Economics.
Lord Wei graduated from Oxford after which he worked at McKinsey & Company for three years, where he came to know Brett Wigdortz, who founded Teach First in 2002. In 2006, after three years at Teach First and a short stint in social venture capital, Wei joined the children's charity Absolute Return for Kids (ARK) where he helped to set up Future Leaders, a programme seeking to attract, develop and place high potential teachers and future leaders of urban schools.
Around the same time as helping to set up Future Leaders, in early 2006, Wei founded the Shaftesbury Partnership, an organisation which seeks to emulate the great social reformers of the Victorian era by creating scalable social reforms.
On 18 May 2010 at the launch of the New Coalition Government policies on Big Society to a group of community leaders, Lord Wei was appointed by Prime Minster David Cameron as a Government Adviser on Big Society.
At the same event, he was also appointed as a life peer. He was introduced in the House of Lords on 3 June 2010 as Baron Wei, of Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney. He is only the third ethnic Chinese member after Baroness Dunn (who is not domiciled in the UK) and the late Lord Chan, and is one of the youngest people to have been made a life peer, at the age of 33.
Lord Wei advised the Government on all aspects of taking forward the Big Society and driving implementation across government. During the initial phase, Wei worked on designing the approach to building the Big Society and engaged with civil society groups, alongside Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General and Nick Hurd MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering.
On 24 May 2011, Lord Wei announced his decision to step down from his role as Government Advisor on Big Society. The Prime Minister, David Cameron said "Nat has worked incredibly hard over two years to help develop policies that support the Big Society. He has played an important role in delivering key initiatives like Community Organisers, National Citizen Service, and the Big Society Bank. I wish him every success in his new role with the Community Foundation Network ."
Lord Wei has now joined the Community Foundation Network as a volunteer advisor to help drive the practical development of Big Society ideas in communities.
As the only ethnic Chinese peer in The House of Lords, Lord Wei also takes an interest in British Chinese community issues, particularly in social reform and also economic, cultural and cultural ties between the UK and China.
In April 2011, when Lord Wei was visiting China, he was presented an award by Phoenix Television for his achievements. Lord Wei is currently the most senior ethnic Chinese politician in the European Union.
Lord Wei is currently speaking to the British Chinese community to better understand the issues it is facing.
Note : If you'd like to contact Nat Wei, Baron Wei, please follow the instructions at the bottom of the Enquiries page.
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