| Office: | Chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission |
| Gina Cass-Gottlieb | |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Term Start: | 21 March 2022 |
| Predecessor: | Rod Sims |
| Alma Mater: | University of Sydney University of California, Berkeley |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
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.
Cass-Gottlieb attended Sydney Girls High School.[1] 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.[2]
Cass-Gottlieb practiced law at Blake Dawson Waldron, rising to partner.[3] She was a senior and founding partner of the Competition and Regulation Group at Gilbert + Tobin from the early 1990s to March 2022.[4] 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.[5] [6]
On 21 March 2022, she became the chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and is 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]
Cass-Gottlieb's father, Cecil Cass, was an orthopedic surgeon and her mother, Bettina, is a sociologist and women's rights activist.[9] Her uncle Moss Cass was a doctor, the first minister for the environment in the Whitlam government and minister for media.[10] Cass-Gottlieb married Stephen Gottlieb in February 1984.[11]