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Gina Cass-Gottlieb is an Australian attorney and government official. She is the current chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), having ascended to the position on 21 March 2022.

Education

Cass-Gottlieb attended Sydney Girls High School. 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, majoring in US competition law, financial institutions regulation and securities regulation.

Career

Cass-Gottlieb practiced law at Blake Dawson Waldron, rising to partner. She was a senior and founding partner of the Competition and Regulation Group at Gilbert + Tobin from the early 1990s to March 2022. 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.

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

Personal life

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

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. Rolfe, John (16 August 2024). "Sydney Power 100: Where the city's most powerful people went to school". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 August 2024.
3. "The members". Financial Regulator Assessment Authority. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022.
4. "G+T partner Gina Cass-Gottlieb appointed next Chair of ACCC - G+T". www.gtlaw.com.au. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
5. Payments System Board Reserve Bank of Australia
6. Gina Cass-Gottlieb Gilbert + Tobin
7. 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.
8. Wootton, Hannah; Kehoe, John (15 December 2021). "New ACCC chairwoman is Murdoch family insider". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
9. "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.
10. 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.
11. "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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• 21st-century Australian women public servants
• 21st-century Australian public servants
• UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
• Living people
• University of Sydney alumni
• People educated at Sydney Girls High School