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Gina Cass-Gottlieb | |
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| Chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission | |
| Assumed office 21 March 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Rod Sims |
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| Born | 1960or1961(age 63–64) [1] |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney University of California,Berkeley |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Gina Cass-Gottlieb is an Australian attorney and government official. She has served as the chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) since 21 March 2022.
Cass-Gottlieb attended Sydney Girls High School. [2] She 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 with a focus on United States competition law,financial regulation,and securities regulation. [3]
Cass-Gottlieb was a partner at Blake Dawson Waldron before founding the Competition and Regulation Group at Gilbert + Tobin,where she was a senior partner from the early 1990s until March 2022. [1] [4]
She became a member of the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 2013 and of the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority in 2021. [5] [6]
On 21 March 2022,she became the chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission,the first woman to hold the position. [7] Her appointment drew criticism from former prime minister Kevin Rudd for her connections to News Corp and the Murdoch family. [8]
Gina Cass-Gottlieb is the daughter of Cecil Cass,an orthopedic surgeon,and Bettina Cass,a sociologist and women's rights activist. [9] Her uncle,Moss Cass,was a physician and the Minister for the Environment and Water during the Whitlam government. [10]
She married Stephen Gottlieb in February 1984. [11]
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