Malcolm Macgregor Summers CBE (1924 – September 1987) was a senior Australian public servant.
[1] He joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1941 and moved to Canberra in the early 1950s to work for the Burueau of Census and Statistics.
[1] The department's involvement in policy issues increased substantially during the time that Summers was its secretary.
Summers was Secretary until late 1973 when then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced he was to become the sole Commissioner of a Commonwealth Inquiry into the maritime industry.
[1] Summers was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1976 for his public service.