Gina Cass-Gottlieb | |
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Chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission | |
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.
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]
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]
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]
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