Michael Worton (born 1951) is Vice-Provost (Academic and International) of University College London, appointed 1998. He holds this appointment concurrently with the university's Fielden Professorship of French Language and Literature.

Worton was born in Luanshya, Zambia, of Yorkshire father and Scottish mother. Worton's family returned to Scotland when he was still of primary-school age, and he undertook his schooling at Sanquhar Academy and then Dumfries Academy, going to Edinburgh University for his MA and PhD (PhD topic was The Evolution of the Poetry of Renè Char: 1928-45).

Worton is both an internationally regarded scholar of French literature and of literary criticism (he has lectured around the world on issues in French Literature, gender studies, painting and photography, critical theory and pedagogy) and isalso a highly respected higher education policy maker, with extensive advisory experience at home and abroad on issues in Higher Education Policy and Practice. He champions the importance of modern languages in education, and in 2009, he wrote Review of Modern Foreign Languages Provision in Higher Education in England for the UK Government, and in the same year was appointed Higher Education Adviser to the British Council.