Wei will work alongside civil society minister Nick Hurd, to lead on the delivery of the flagship Conservative programme that was set out today by Prime Minister David Cameron.
As well as being among the first employee's of Teach First, a charity that identifies and trains top graduates to move to a career in teaching, Wei founded the social reform charity the Shaftesbury partnership, which was central in forming The Challenge, the prototype used by the Conservative's National Citizen Service scheme.
The Big Society programme paves the way for policies including the citizen service for 16-year-olds and support for more charity involvement in the running of public services.
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