Sir Nigel Martyn Carrington is a British lawyer and academic leader who served as vice-chancellor of University of the Arts London between 2008 and 2020.

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 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.

During his tenure at the university, which has an annual budget in excess of £250 million,[5] he managed a number of strategic projects, including the university’s £200m capital development of the Central Saint Martins campus at King’s Cross[6] and the £69m Camberwell College of Arts redevelopment project,[7][8] which officially launched on 5 March 2018.

Previous positions held include non-executive director of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2005–2008), trustee of Crisis (2005–2011), trustee of Independent Opera (2006–2010), trustee and chairman of Jeans for Genes (2006–2008), a governor of North London Collegiate School, (2007–2015), non-executive director of Hornby plc (2007–2014) and a governor of International Students House (2009-2017).