Leslie Wagner, CBE (born 21 February 1943) is a British academic, who has been Vice-Chancellor of two universities and as the second Chancellor of the University of Derby. Wagner obtained a BA and MA at Manchester University and worked for the UK government until 1970, when he became a lecturer in economics at the Open University. He was later Head of Economics at the Polytechnic of Central London, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of North London in 1987.From 1994 to 2003, he was Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University.