Gina Cass-Gottlieb
Chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Assumed office
21 March 2022
Preceded byRod Sims
Personal details
Born1960 or 1961 (age 62–63)[1]
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
ProfessionLawyer

Gina Cass-Gottlieb is the current chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.

Career

Cass-Gottlieb practiced law at Blake Dawson Waldron, rising to partner.[1] She was a senior and founding partner of the Competition and Regulation Group at Gilbert + Tobin from the early 1990s to March 2022.[2] She became a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Payments System Board in 2013 and the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority in September 2021.[3][4]

On 21 March 2022, she became the chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and is the first woman to hold the position.[5] Her appointment drew criticism from former prime minister Kevin Rudd for her connections to News Corp and the Murdoch family.[6]

Education

Cass-Gottlieb holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney, and was a Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley from 1986 to 1987, graduating with a Master of Laws, majoring in US competition law, financial institutions regulation and securities regulation.[7]

Personal life

Cass-Gottlieb's father, Cecil Cass, was an orthopedic surgeon and her mother, Bettina, is a sociologist and women's rights activist.[8] Her uncle Moss Cass was a doctor, the first minister for the environment in the Whitlam government and minister for media.[9] Cass-Gottlieb married Stephen Gottlieb in February 1984.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 Labi, Sharon (18 September 1998). "Feature: Women in the law". The Australian Jewish News. Vol. 64, no. 50. Victoria, Australia. p. 25. Retrieved 26 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "G+T partner Gina Cass-Gottlieb appointed next Chair of ACCC - G+T". www.gtlaw.com.au. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  3. ↑ Payments System Board Reserve Bank of Australia
  4. ↑ Gina Cass-Gottlieb Gilbert + Tobin
  5. ↑ Commission, Australian Competition and Consumer (21 March 2022). "New Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb starts at ACCC". Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  6. ↑ New ACCC chairwoman is Murdoch family insider Australian Financial Review 15 December 2021
  7. ↑ "The members". Financial Regulator Assessment Authority. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "The power of one: Gina Cass-Gottlieb on becoming the first woman to lead the ACCC". the Guardian. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  9. ↑ Cass-Gottlieb, Gina (29 September 2006). "Obituary: 104-year-old patriarch". The Australian Jewish News. Vol. 113, no. 2. New South Wales, Australia. p. 20. Retrieved 26 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Family Notices". The Australian Jewish Times. Vol. 89B, no. 22. New South Wales, Australia. 9 February 1984. p. 21. Retrieved 26 June 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
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