Recently retired Rio Tinto managing director David Peever will be the next chairman of Cricket Australia.
Peever, 56, was elected vice-chairman of CA at a two-day board meeting in Melbourne, which finished today.
He will take over from current chairman Wally Edwards, a former Australian opening batsman, in October next year.
Peever was appointed as an independent CA director 18 months ago as part of broad governance changes to Australian cricket which saw the number of directors reduced from 14 to nine, with just one from each state and three independents.
News.com.au quoted Edwards, as saying that the appointment of Peever was a "tremendous result" for Australian cricket.
Peever is currently a non-executive director of the Melbourne Business School, a Director of the Business Council of Australia, a member of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council and the Department of Defence Gender Equality Advisory Board. He is also a Director of the Australian Foundation Investment Company Ltd.
He graduated from James Cook University with an economics degree and later completed a Masters of Science in Mineral Economics from Macquarie University.
Peever previously served on the executive committee of Queensland Cricket.
