Edgar W. Schneider (born 30 May 1954) is a German linguist of Austrian origin.
From 2021 to 2023, he was a visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore for one semester each year.
[1][2] Schneider was born in Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria.
Schneider was the president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) in 2016–2018.
[6] He edits a series of short monographs for Cambridge University Press, called Elements: World Englishes.