Carl Raymond Lygo (born October 1967) is a British barrister and academic who was the founding vice-chancellor of BPP University.

[1] He is the founding chairman of the Association of Cost Lawyers Training,[2] the founding chairman of Turner Schools[3] a multi academy trust charity set up to help disadvantaged children in Folkestone, Kent, a non-executive director of UCFB[4] (an innovative Football Higher Education Institution), an advisory board member of WONKHE[5] for Higher Education.

He helped to establish the first Bar Vocational Course at BPP Law School, becoming the leader of the Legal Practice Course leading the team that created the innovative "City LPC"[6] for "magic circle" law firms in 2000, which propelled BPP Law School from an intake of less than 100 students to over 3,000 opening new centres in Leeds,[7] Manchester.

[13] In 2013 BPP was granted full University title following a successful review by the QAA and HEFCE.

[14] In December 2013 BPP University was voted best Higher Education Provider in the UK.