Gina Cass-Gottlieb

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

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

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. 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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