"Former ICC CEO Malcolm Speed, who headed the administration from 2001 to 2008, assembled a management team that his successor, Haroon Lorgat, is building upon. Mr Lorgat said: “The group of people around me are extremely competent, well-qualified and energetic and they all have a passion to ensure that cricket is a strong sport that will keep growing and keep growing stronger."
"They possess a diverse range of skills and are prepared to take on new challenges that have changed the face of the ICC. I would back this group against the management team of any other sport."
David Morgan
ICC President
David Morgan assumed the role of ICC President in July 2008 and will serve until ICC annual conference in 2010. He is only the eighth person to head up world cricket following on from Lord Cowdrey of Tonbridge, Sir Clyde Walcott, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Malcolm Gray, Ehsan Mani, Percy Sonn and Ray Mali (the first two named were termed "Chairman" with Mr Dalmiya the first ICC President).
David was Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board for five years from 2002, succeeding Lord MacLaurin in the role. David reformed the ECB governance structure during his time in that role and represented it on the ICC's Executive Board. He became ICC President-Elect in July 2007. His background is in human resources, he is a connoisseur of fine wines and also has a passion for Glamorgan County Cricket Club in his native Wales.
In June 2008 David was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to cricket in Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honours List.
Haroon Lorgat
ICC Chief Executive Officer
Born on 26 May 1960 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Haroon became the third ICC Chief Executive Officer after David Richards (1993-2001) and Malcolm Speed (2001-2008) at the ICC's annual conference in July 2008.
He attended Woolhope High School, PE, from where he graduated in 1978, qualified with a Bachelor of Commerce (B Comm) from Rhodes University, in Eastern Province, where he specialised in accountancy, and then went on to complete a Certificate in Theory of Accounting (CTA) at the same university.
From Rhodes, Haroon went on to qualify as a chartered accountant with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1985. He worked for Coopers and Lybrand and IBM Johannesburg in the 1980s before setting up his own accountancy practice, H Lorgat & Co., in 1987. Haroon then went on to become managing partner of M Brey & Associates, Kmmt Brey and Gobodo Inc in the Western Cape, all of which are firms of accountants.
In 2002 he led the successful merger of Gobodo and Ernst & Young Western Cape. He was later appointed Senior Partner of Ernst & Young Western Cape and was a member of EY's National Executive Committee. He holds several society positions including member of the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants (since 1985), Public Accountants and Auditors' Board (since 1986) and the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants in SA (since 1991).
As an all-rounder for Eastern Province and Transvaal, he played 76 first-class games between 1977/78 and 1990/91. A useful left-handed batsman, he scored a total of 2,813 first-class runs registering three centuries and 12 fifties. He also took 191 wickets with his right-arm medium pace.
Within cricket administration, Haroon has been chairman of Western Province Professional Cricket and a board member at Western Province Cricket Association. He served as a finance committee member for the United Cricket Board of South Africa (1999-2004), was a member of the ICC Cricket World Cup Finance Committee (2000-2003), has been a board director and treasurer of Cricket South Africa (2003-2004) and a selector (2001-2003). In 2004, he was appointed as chairman of selectors for Cricket South Africa, a position he held until 2007.
He was married in 1985 and has one son and one daughter.
Campbell Jamieson
General Manager - Commercial
Campbell Jamieson has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in cricket administration, both at a national and international level. As an employee of the Australian Cricket Board for seven years from 1989, he was seconded to the ICC for one year as Executive Assistant and Events Manager in 1996 - he shows no sign of returning and was appointed to the important role of Commercial Manager in 2001. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and played grade cricket in Australia for Melbourne and North Melbourne. On the rare occasions when he is not traveling on ICC business, Campbell lives in Dubai.
David Richardson
General Manager - Cricket
Former South African Test wicket-keeper David Richardson was appointed the ICC's first General Manager of Cricket in January 2002. David played 42 Test matches, taking 152 dismissals. On retiring from international cricket in 1998, David, a qualified lawyer, maintained close contact with the game as both a Business Director with Octagon SA, the company responsible for negotiating player employment contracts with the United Cricket Board of South Africa, and as a media commentator. He relocated to Dubai when the ICC moved in August 2005 and apart from an occasional game of golf and an even more occasional game of cricket, David's focus has turned to following the sporting careers of his sons.
Mr Ravi Sawani
General Manager and Chief Investigator, ACSU
Mr Ravi Sawani was appointed the new General Manager and Chief Investigator of its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU). He is responsible, alongside Chairman of the ACSU Lord Condon, for working with three investigators and five Regional Security Managers to ensure the game of cricket remains on top of the issue of corruption within the sport.
Mr Sawani, from Chennai in India, came to the role with outstanding credentials, with 30 years in the Indian Police Service including seven years with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). In the latter organisation, as Joint Director in charge of Special Crimes, he worked on the enquiry into match-fixing in cricket.
Mr Sawani speaks four languages - English, Hindi, Tamil and Punjabi.
Matthew Kennedy
Global Development Manager
Matthew Kennedy has worked exclusively in cricket administration since completing a Bachelor of Business - Sport Management at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, including over seven years at the Victorian Cricket Association in various roles before joining the ICC in 2000 as its East Asia - Pacific Regional Development Manager, based at Cricket Australia. Matthew re-located to the ICC head office, initially in London and now in Dubai, with his wife and two young children to take up the role of ICC Global Development Manager in January 2004 and is enjoying the huge challenges involved in running the ICC Development Program. Another keen cricketer, Matthew has recently pulled the boots on for the Annual ICC social match.
Jon Long
Manager - Member Services & Corporate Affairs
After over three years managing the ICC's publications and media operations, Jon Long was given the task of heading up the new Member Services and Corporate Affairs department in May 2006. Having played and written about a wide variety of sports before and during a Law with European Law degree at the University of Nottingham in England, he fulfilled his ambition of following a career in sport immediately after graduating and has pursued this path ever since. Over this time he has worked with a range of organisations in sports as diverse as archery, boules, cycling, tennis and football and worked at both the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and the Olympic Games in Athens. He continues to combine enthusiastic participation in several mainstream sports with unsuccessful attempts to find an obscure sport in which he excels.
Brian Murgatroyd
Manager - Media & Communications
Brian Murgatroyd joined the ICC as media manager in September 2005 after previously filling the same role with both the England & Wales Cricket Board (1997 - 99) and the Australian Cricket Board (1999 - 2003). On either side of those appointments he worked as a freelance journalist specialising in cricket working for, amongst others, The Times, Agence France Presse, Reuters and Sky Sports. He has also written four books, one with former England captain Alec Stewart and three with current Australia captain Ricky Ponting. Brian assumed the role of Manager - Media & Communications in April 2006 and spends much of his spare time outside work lamenting the failings of his favourite football team, Leeds United. He is a very modest club cricketer.
David Becker
Senior Counsel - Commercial & Business
David joined the ICC in November 2007 as Senior Counsel - Commercial and Business. Prior to that, David practiced as a specialist sports lawyer in London for 7 years, first as an associate with sports specialists Townleys (who later merged with Hammonds) and then as partner with Collyer Bristow. Qualified in England and South Africa, David has advised a range of leading businesses, governing bodies and athletes in his career as a sports lawyer, such as NIKE, Vodafone, World Sports Group, the International Rugby Board, England & Wales Cricket Board, Paralympic World Cup Limited, Ben Ainslie OBE, Ernie Els and Royal Thames Yacht Club. He has been listed as a leader in the field of Sports Law by Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories since 2004. David has written chapters in the leading sports law textbook "Sport: Law and Practice" by Taylor and Lewis and recently published the first book dedicated to the legal aspects of event management, entitled "The Essential Legal Guide to Events". David is a keen cricket fan and an avid supporter of his native province in South Africa, Western Province. David's role at the ICC is to oversee the legal aspects of the ICC's commercial programme.
Clair Milner
HR and Admin Manager
Clair Milner has over 16 years experience in Human Resources and General Management. She completed her tertiary education in Durban, South Africa, where she obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with majors in IT and Economics and was placed on the Dean's list for Economics. Her work experience includes Fortune 500 organisations like IBM and Citigroup. She is married to Jaycee and they have one child, the family having relocated to Dubai from South Africa in 2006. Clair enjoys her daily jogs in the pleasant Dubai climate and has a passion for scuba diving (time permitting). She is also an avid cricket fan who has enjoyed watching cricket alongside her sports-mad family in South Africa at a very young age.