Malcolm Campbell is a UCT alumnus, having obtained a BArch from the university in 1981. He also holds an MSc in economics in urban development planning from the University College of London.

He has served on Council since 2018 and has served as Chair of the University Building and Development Committee (UB&DC). Since May 2023, he has served as the Deputy Chair of Council and as a member of the Council Executive and the Remuneration Committee. He had also chaired the Naming of Buildings Committee over a three-year period.

He is a principal at ACG Architects & Development Planners, whose portfolio of work covers the full spectrum of residential, retail, commercial, institutional and public amenity projects. In addition, Malcolm specialises in urban design and development planning, with the latter resulting in work in Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Eritrea. He has a special interest in memory work and has collaborated on two significant memory installations in Cape Town.

Malcolm is a past president of the South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) (2001–2009) where he led significant transformation initiatives in the profession focused on promoting inclusivity and mobility. His work here included validation of architectural programmes at universities in South Africa, as well as in Ghana and Kenya, when he served as a member of the validation panel for the Commonwealth Association of Architects.