The ICC’s executive board has recommended re-defining the role of its president, reducing its powers and creating a new position of ‘chairman,’ after a two-day meeting in Dubai.

The ICC board, made up of the heads of Full Member boards, passed a unanimous resolution that the presidency become an “ambassadorial” role on a rotational basis from 2014. The board also recommended that under its new amendments, the chairman, and not the president, lead the board. These proposed changes mean the ICC would have to “consider the position and role, if any, of the ICC vice-president between 2012 and 2014.”

In a media release after the meeting, the board said its recommendation regarding the presidency was “consistent with recommendations in the Woolf Report.” The amendments to the ICC’s Articles of Association required to effect these changes will be discussed by the executive board at its next meeting in April, before being submitted for approval at the annual conference in June.