Malcolm Speed

{{Short description|Australian businessman, cricket executive (born 1948)}}

{{BLP sources|date=April 2009}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Malcolm Speed

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS-cats|size=100%|AO}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1948|9|14}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

| known_for = Former CEO of the International Cricket Council

| occupation = {{Hlist | Businessman | cricket executive}}

}}

Malcolm Walter Speed {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born 14 September 1948) is an Australian businessman and the former CEO of the International Cricket Council.

Before he entered the world of cricket, he was a barrister in Melbourne. He was originally the chief executive officer of the Australian Cricket Board from 1997 until in 2001, he took up the job of the CEO of the International Cricket Council. In this role, he has worked with four presidents of the ICC: Malcolm Gray, Ehsan Mani, Percy Sonn and Ray Mali. He was succeeded as ICC CEO on 4 April 2008 by Haroon Lorgat.[http://www.cricketworld.com/internationalcricketnews/icc/article/?aid=15232 Haroon Lorgat Named As Next ICC CEO] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615135940/http://www.cricketworld.com/internationalcricketnews/icc/article/?aid=15232 |date=15 June 2008 }}, Cricket World, 4 April 2008, retrieved 12 April 2009

Speed was put on paid leave until his contract ran out on 4 July 2008 after rumours had been circulating for the last month that he had had a serious falling-out with Ray Mali, the president, following the ICC executive's decision not to take any major action against Zimbabwe following an independent forensic audit carried out by KPMG.{{Cite web|url=http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/347568.html|title = ICC in turmoil as Speed ousted}}

Speed was formerly in charge of the Australian National Basketball League, overseeing the 1996 removal of three teams from the league,{{Cite web |url=http://andthefoul.net/NBLwiki/index.php?1996%20NBL%20Season |title=1996 NBL Season |access-date=24 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519045231/http://andthefoul.net/NBLwiki/index.php?1996%20NBL%20Season |archive-date=19 May 2015 |url-status=dead }} and is a member of the NBL Hall of Fame. He was also a board member of the Australian Sports Commission.

Speed is currently a board member of Golf Australia and the Richmond Football Club.

Speed was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2012.{{cite web|url=https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/malcolm-speed/|title=Malcolm Speed|publisher=Sport Australia Hall of Fame|accessdate=25 September 2020}}