- administration and regulation,
- commercial activities and event management,
- promotion and development of the game; and
- integrity of the game.
Haroon LorgatICC Chief Executive Officer
Born in South Africa, Haroon graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and then trained with a Big Four accountancy firm to qualify as a Chartered Accountant in 1985.
He worked briefly in management at IBM before setting up his own professional services firm. Through a series of mergers spanning almost 15 years, Haroon built a large independent firm before successfully leading a merger with Ernst & Young. He was immediately appointed as Managing Partner for Ernst & Young Western Cape and served on the firm's national executive committee before leaving in 2007 to establish a private equity business. He was head hunted by the ICC to become only the third chief executive in its 99-year history, taking office in June 2008.
As a leading cricket all-rounder in South Africa, he played in 76 first-class games however, having grown up during the apartheid era, he was never entitled to represent his country at the international level.
In the past ten years, Haroon served in various capacities in South African cricket, including as Chairman of Western Province Professional Cricket and as a non-executive Board member for the Western Province Cricket Association. At the national level, he served as a national selector, as a non-executive director for Cricket South Africa overseeing finance, and from 2004-2007, he successfully served as Chairman of the National Selectors for the South Africa cricket team.
He is married to Farah and they have a son and daughter living in their family home in Cape Town. He enjoys golf, travel and meeting interesting people.
David RichardsonGeneral 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.
Campbell JamiesonGeneral 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.
Faisal HasnainChief Financial Officer
Faisal Hasnain completed his early education in Pakistan prior to qualifying from the UK as a Chartered Accountant. Over a 25 year career in finance and administration, Faisal has held senior management positions with Ernst & Young, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citigroup, ICC and the Government of Dubai. Faisal, who has worked in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UK, Monaco and Dubai, left the ICC in 2008 and rejoined the organisation in 2010. Apart from cricket, his other interests include reading and chess.
David BeckerHead of Legal
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.
Colin GibsonHead of Media and Communications
Colin Gibson took up the role of ICC Head of Media and Communications in February 2010 after previously working as the Head of Corporate Communications at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). He has also worked as Director of Communications at the Football Association in England. Gibson was previously a sports journalist having held the position of chief sports writer for the Daily Telegraph in London before becoming sports editor of the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail in London. He has also worked as assistant editor of The Australian in Sydney.
Jon LongHead of Member Services
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.
Yogendra Pal Singh
Head of ACSU
Yogendra Pal Singh took over from Ravi Sawani in June 2011, who retired from that full-time post after holding it since November 2007. YP started his career in 1981 and is qualified with BA (Hons), LLB. Mr Singh, from New Delhi in India, served for 30 years in the Indian Police Service including several years with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
In the latter organisation, as joint-director in charge of anti-corruption, he was involved in the investigation of corrupt practices, particularly in Mumbai and New Delhi. Among Mr Singh's other professional accomplishments, he spent five years from 2002 until 2006 as the Inspector General of Police at the Police Academy and of the Provincial Armed Constabulary in Moradabad and previously he was Deputy Inspector General of Police at the CBI from 1998 to 2002.
Iain HigginsCompany Lawyer
After graduating from Cambridge University, Iain played professional rugby league in the Super League, obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Law from King's College, London and co-founded a player representation business before eventually moving into private practice as a specialist sports lawyer with leading London-based firms Hammonds and Bird & Bird. During that time, Iain advised governing bodies (such as UEFA, Six Nations Committee, British Lions, the ITF and the RFL), clubs, sponsors and broadcasters on a wide-range of commercial, regulatory and dispute-resolution matters and gained recognition in the 2009 Chambers legal directory as “one of the most notable lawyers from [Bird & Bird's] new generation of sports lawyers”. Iain has accumulated significant knowledge and experience in specialist regulatory areas such as discipline, doping and corruption and he has written chapters in the leading sports law textbook “Sport: Law & Practice”. He remains a passionate and competitive participant and spectator of all sports.
Tim AndersonGlobal Development Manager
Tim started his ICC career in 2000 as a Development Officer in the East Asia – Pacific Region based in Melbourne. After becoming the Region's Development Manager in 2004, then moving to Dubai as ICC's Development Programmes Manager in 2006, he was appointed to the role of Global Development Manager in 2011. Playing and coaching cricket were key themes in Tim's life before joining the ICC. He captained the Australian U/19 team at the 1998 Youth World Cup, then became a scholar at the Australian Institute of Sport Cricket Academy under Rod Marsh. Tim has a Bachelor of Business Administration, and enjoys playing golf and supporting the Geelong Cats in the Australian Football League (AFL). He lives in Dubai with his wife and daughter.
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