Gina Cass-Gottlieb

Australian lawyer

Gina Cass-Gottlieb

Chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 March 2022
Preceded by	Rod Sims

Personal details
Born	1960 or 1961 (age 62–63)^[1]
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Profession	Lawyer

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

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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4]^[5]

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

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ "The members". Financial Regulator Assessment Authority. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022.
^ "G+T partner Gina Cass-Gottlieb appointed next Chair of ACCC - G+T". www.gtlaw.com.au. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
^ Payments System Board Reserve Bank of Australia
^ Gina Cass-Gottlieb Gilbert + Tobin
^ 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.
^ New ACCC chairwoman is Murdoch family insider Australian Financial Review 15 December 2021
^ "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.
^ 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.
^ "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.