Nat Wei, Baron Wei
Nathanael Ming - Yan Wei, Baron Wei (Chinese韦鸣恩/韦鸣恩, Pinyin Wei Míng'ēn ), known as Nat Wei, born January 19, 1977 in Watford, Hertfordshire is a British social entrepreneur, advisor to the British government as part of the "Big Society "project, the Conservative Party politician and Member of the House of Lords. Wei is founder and partner of the Shaftesbury Partnership, a member of the founding team of Teach First and former strategic consultant at the charity Absolute Return For Kids.
Life and career
Wei was born in 1977 as son of Chinese, originally derived from Hong Kong parents in Watford and raised in Milton Keynes and London. He comes from a Christian family; his father was a pastor at a Christian Missionary Society. Wei attended a comprehensive school.
He studied Modern Languages (Modern Languages) at Jesus College, University of Oxford. After his graduation in Oxford Wei worked for three years at McKinsey & Company, where he met Brett Wigdortz who in 2002 founded Teach First. In 2006, after three years with Teach First, where he was responsible for the acquisition and management of venture capital, he began to work, where he co-founded the program Future Leaders, for the children's charity Absolute Return for Kids ( ARK) which the recruitment and training future teachers and principals for secondary schools in urban areas to acquire target has.
Weis Impetus as a social reformer based in particular on the thought of anthropologist Margaret Mead, after which it a " group could prudently thinking, confident people manage to change the world. "
In early 2006, around the same time as he helped to launch Future Leaders in life, founded Wei Shaftesbury Partnership, an organization that considers itself the successor of the social reformers of the Victorian era, and it has set itself the goal " opportunities to create and initiate appropriate social reforms. "She is currently working on a number of projects that deal with the issues of housing, unemployment and health care. About the Shaftesbury Partnership was developed by Wei also co-founded The Challenge Network, an independent charity, which was launched in order to " inspire and empower a generation to introduce social change ". It operates the two-month program The Challenge, which evoked great interest among government and opposition.
He is also a Fellow of the Young Foundation.
Government advisors
On 18 May 2010, at the presentation of the coalition agreements ( Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement) to the Big Society program, Wei was appointed unpaid government consultant for the Big Society program. His office is the Office for Civil Society in the Cabinet Office connected. It is the government, on the side of the cabinet minister Francis Maude and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State ( Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering ) Nick Hurd, advise on all aspects of the introduction and implementation of the Big Society program.
His responsibilities there is one within eight years, in particular the creation of applications for all 16 -year-olds with the General Certificate of Secondary Education under the National Citizen Service program.
Membership in the House of Lords
When presenting Weis as a government adviser Prime Minister David Cameron announced the appointment Weis on Life Peer. On 3 June 2010, he was introduced as Baron Wei, of Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney to the House of Lords, saying his oath. He was by Michael Bates, Baron Bates, and Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, supported. On 16 June 2010 he gave his inaugural speech.
It is thus only the third ethnic Chinese in the House of Lords, by Lydia Dunn and the late Michael Chan. In addition, Wei is the second youngest person to be appointed Life Peer, after Rupert Mitford, who had previously, however, was already sitting as a Hereditary Peer in the House of Lords. Wei had become the youngest ever appointed Life Peer, who first became a member of the House of Lords; Sayeeda Warsi was previously, Baroness Warsi youngest Life Peer.
Family
Wei is married and the father of two sons (November 2010). His wife Cynthia was up to the birth of the first child's teacher at a secondary school. They live in Shoreditch, London.