Eilís Veronica Ferran, FBA (born 14 March 1962) is a Northern Irish solicitor, legal scholar, and academic administrator.
She has been Professor of Company and Securities Law at the University of Cambridge since 2005, and its Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations since 2015.
[2] In 1986, Ferran returned to St Catharine's College, Cambridge (her alma mater) as a lecturer in law.
[1] She was Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law from April 1999 to September 2003, and its Co-Director from January 2006 to 2010.
From July to August 2004, she was a Chapman Tripp Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
From July to August 2010, she was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, United States.