Tuesday, 14 December, 2021 - 13:42
First female chair for consumer watchdog
The federal government will appoint Gina Cass-Gottlieb as the ACCC's first female head, replacing outgoing chairman Rod Sims.
Gina Cass-Gottlieb
Board Member, Payments Systems Board / Reserve Bank of Australia
Gina Cass-Gottlieb has advised on some of the largest, most contentious and complex merger clearance matters for acquisitions and joint ventures in Australia and New Zealand.
She has played critical and strategic roles for high profile clients under the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)’s enforcement and regulatory investigations, and became the ACCC's first female head in March 2022.
She is also widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading advisors specialising in financial services regulatory advice and representing financial institutions and their industry associations before the ACCC, APRA, ASIC and AUSTRAC. She has been re-appointed by the Commonwealth Treasurer to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board for a further five-year term.
Ms Cass-Gottlieb is consistently ranked as one of Australia’s leading competition and regulatory lawyers by Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Best Lawyers. Since 2010, she has been ranked as a ’Star Individual’ for Competition and Antitrust by Chambers Asia Pacific.
Ms Cass-Gottlieb was a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley majoring in US competition law, financial institutions regulation and securities regulation.
