Lǐ Wéi (Chinese: 李嵬) is a British linguist of Manchu-Chinese heritage, who is the Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education. He is an elected Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (United Kingdom), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). Prior to his appointment as IOE’s Director in March 2021, he held a Chair of Applied Linguistics, was Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the UCL Institute of Education, and directed the ESRC UCL, Bloomsbury (Birkbeck, SOAS, LSHTM) and East London Doctoral Training Partnership. Until the end of 2014, he was Pro-Vice-Master of Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Birkeck Graduate Research School. His research interests are in bilingualism and multilingualism.
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