Zuo Wei

Zuo Wei (Chinese: 左惟, born August 1961) is a Chinese academic and university administrator. He currently serves as Secretary of the Party Committee of Southeast University, holding a deputy ministerial-level position. Zuo is a professor and holds a doctorate in Management Science and Engineering from Southeast University.^[1]

Zuo Wei was born in August 1961 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in July 1983 and began his career that same month. Zuo studied computer science and engineering at Nanjing Institute of Technology (now part of Southeast University) from 1979 to 1983, serving as a Youth League branch secretary and committee member. After graduation, he worked as a teaching assistant and student counselor at the same university until 1987.^[2]

He then held multiple administrative and academic positions at Southeast University, including head of the Communist Youth League Organization and Practice Departments, lecturer, deputy secretary, and secretary of the Youth League Committee.^[3] Between 1995 and 2001, Zuo served as deputy director and later Director of the University Finance Office while also holding academic ranks from lecturer to associate professor. He was assistant to the university president and dean of the Distance Education College from 1999 to 2001.^[4]

From 2001 to 2010, Zuo served as Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of Southeast University, later becoming Executive Deputy Secretary.^[5] From 2013 to 2017, he was Party Secretary of Nanjing Agricultural University. He returned to Southeast University in 2017 as Executive Deputy Secretary and then became Party Secretary in December 2017, a position he held until July 2025.^[6]