Nigel Carrington

Nigel Carrington is a British lawyer and academic administrator who has served as Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London since September 2008.

Carrington studied at Brighton College, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational) in the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex in southern England (1969–1974), before going to St John's College, Oxford, where he graduated with a law degree in 1978.

He worked as an international lawyer with Baker & McKenzie from 1979 to 2000. He was appointed Managing Partner of the London office at the age of 38, and was also a Member of the firm’s International Executive Committee, and Chairman of its European and Middle East Regional Council.

In 2000, he joined the McLaren Group as Managing Director, becoming Deputy Chairman in 2005, when he undertook a Graduate Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and became a non-executive director of companies, charities and organisations in the public sector.

In September 2008 he became Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London.

As Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, he has overall responsibility for the executive management of the University and chairs the University’s Executive and Academic Boards.

Since joining the University, which has an annual budget in excess of £250 million, he has managed a number of strategic projects including the University’s £200m capital development of the Central Saint Martins campus at King’s Cross.

He has a Huffington Post blog and has commented publicly on a number of issues affecting Higher Education and the creative industries. These include the importance of studying in the EU, universities’ expansion in the uncapped student numbers environment, tuition fees, student visas, and the impact of Government policy on the design industry. He has also written for the Higher Education Policy Institute arguing that a structural deficit has emerged in higher education across creative subjects because of the expense of teaching art and design subjects.

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