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Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb
Gina Cass-Gottlieb commenced her 5-year appointment as Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on 21 March 2022.
Prior to her appointment Gina had over 30 years' experience advising on a large number of merger, competition and regulatory matters in Australia and New Zealand.
Since 2013 Gina has been a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board. The Payments System Board is the Australian regulator of access to payment systems and the stability regulator for financial market intermediaries. Gina was a member of the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority from September 2021 to March 2022. For 10 years Gina was a director on the board of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation.
Gina chairs Commission meetings, the Enforcement Committee, and the Scams and Digital Markets Committee, and is a member of the Mergers Review Committee, Digital ID and Consumer Data Right Committee, Infrastructure and Communications Committee, and Energy Markets Board.
Gina is the first female Chair of the ACCC and its predecessor the TPC, since its establishment in 1974. Gina is also a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee and the Bureau of the International Competition Network.
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Deputy Chair Mick Keogh
Mick Keogh was appointed to the ACCC in February 2016, and then as Deputy Chair of the ACCC in 2018, with responsibility for Small Business and Agriculture. He was reappointed in May 2023.
Mick has a long and diverse history of involvement with the small business and agriculture sector, including periods of employment as a business consultant, and in advocacy and advisory roles to policymakers and governments. He has also chaired a number of Commonwealth Government inquiries and Ministerial advisory boards. He is currently a member of the Commonwealth Government’s Emission Reduction Assurance Council, and a Board member of the Food Agility Co-operative Research Centre.
From 2003 to 2018, he was Executive Director of the Australian Farm Institute, an independent policy research institute that conducted research into strategic policy issues of importance to Australian agriculture and regional Australia. Mick continued in that role until his appointment as Deputy Chair of the ACCC in June 2018.
Mick chairs the Water and Agriculture Committee and Competition Exemptions Committee, is the Deputy Chair of the Compliance and Product Safety Committee and Mergers Review Committee, and is a member of the Enforcement Committee. Mick’s role also includes oversight of the small business, franchising and agriculture units of the ACCC
Mick was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2015. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in science, both obtained at the University of New South Wales, and a Doctor of Applied Science (honoris causa) from Charles Sturt University.
Deputy Chair Catriona Lowe
Catriona Lowe was appointed by the Governor General to the position of ACCC Deputy Chair for a 5-year term on 27 January 2023. On 19 June 2023 Catriona commenced as an Associate Member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Catriona chairs the Compliance and Product Safety Committee, is the Deputy Chair of the Digital ID and Consumer Data Right Committee, Scams and Digital Markets Committee and Energy Markets Board, and is a member of the Enforcement Committee.
For over 20 years Catriona has had a strong commitment to consumer issues and protection of consumer rights in her varied roles as a regulator, litigator and consumer advocate.
Before joining the ACCC, Catriona was a Board Member of the Australian Energy Regulator from February 2020. She has also held a non-Executive director role on a range of boards, including the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority and the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman. Catriona was also principal of a consumer-focused consulting practice.
From 2006 to 2013, Catriona was Co-CEO of the Consumer Action Law Centre. She has also held senior roles with the Consumers’ Federation of Australia and the ACCC.
Over the years Catriona has worked extensively on matters involving consumer focused regulation, behavioural economics and effective enforcement and compliance. She has advocated for consumers across a range of markets including financial services, telecommunications and energy.
Catriona has a Bachelor of Laws from Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University).
Commissioner Anna Brakey
Anna Brakey was appointed a Commissioner of the ACCC in December 2020. She is also an Associate Member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority. On 1 March 2022 Anna commenced as an Associate Member of the New Zealand Commerce Commission.
Anna has extensive experience in regulatory economics and public policy with over 25 years of experience working with regulators, government and within the private sector. She has had broad exposure to a wide range of infrastructure industries, including energy, water and transport. Additionally, she has worked on economic reform to social policy.
Prior to starting at ACCC, Anna worked as an economist at Frontier Economics and held a number of roles at the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), including being a deputy Tribunal Member, the Executive Director of Strategy and Economic Analysis and the Chief Operating Officer. Anna’s expertise includes the Parliamentary Committee process, the New South Wales Department of Transport, the Australian Productivity Commission, the Bureau of Industry Economics and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Additionally, Anna has worked for the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) on reforms to economic regulation and with the New South Wales Treasury on the sale of assets.
Anna chairs the Infrastructure and Communications Committee and the Energy Markets Board, and is the Deputy Chair of the Water and Agriculture Committee.
Anna holds a Bachelor of Economics from Australian National University and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from Securities Institute of Australia. She is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Commissioner Peter Crone
Peter Crone was appointed a Commissioner of the ACCC in December 2020.
Peter has more than 30 years of experience in economic policy and commercial strategy at the highest levels of government and business in Australia. He has served as an adviser to state and federal governments, including as Senior Economic Advisor to Australia’s Prime Minister from 1997 to 2006, and filled chief economist roles at the Business Council of Australia, Ernst and Young, and Coles Group.
Peter has also been a commercial adviser to a number of superannuation funds on infrastructure investments, and commenced his career at the Commonwealth Treasury as a policy adviser and research economist.
Peter brings deep experience in assessing and explaining economic and regulatory trends at play across markets and industries. His broad experience reflects the economy-wide remit of the ACCC.
Peter chairs the ACCC’s Digital ID and Consumer Data Right Committee and is a member of the Mergers Review Committee and Scams and Digital Markets Committee.
Peter holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Western Australia. He is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Commissioner Philip Williams
Dr Philip Williams AM commenced his 5-year term with the ACCC on 27 June 2024. Dr Williams is an accomplished economist whose work has focused on the intersection of economics and competition law in Australia.
Philip chairs the ACCC’s Mergers Review Committee, is Deputy Chair of the Competition Exemptions Committee, and is a member of the Enforcement Committee and Infrastructure and Communications Committee.
Dr Williams is former executive chair of Frontier Economics and a former Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Melbourne. He has advised leading law firms as well as the ACCC and the National Competition Council on competition and regulatory issues. Dr Williams holds a Masters in economics from Monash University and a PhD from the London School of Economics.
Commissioner Luke Woodward
Luke Woodward commenced his 5-year appointment with the ACCC on 10 October 2025.
Luke has over 30 years of competition and consumer law enforcement experience. He has advised on a wide range of matters, including competition and consumer law matters, acquisition and merger transactions, and infrastructure regulation, across telecommunications, gas, electricity, water, airports, seaports and rail industries.
Prior to this appointment, Luke was partner in private legal practice, specialising in competition and consumer law and market regulation. He was the national head of practice at leading Australian law firms. He also previously worked at the ACCC as an Executive General Manager, General Counsel and Senior Assistant Commissioner between 1993 and 2000; and commenced his career as a specialist competition law litigator in the Australian Government Solicitor’s Trade Practices Unit.
Luke chairs the Enforcement Committee, is deputy chair of the Mergers Review Committee and sits on a number of other ACCC Committees.
Luke graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School with a Master of Public Administration and the University of Sydney with degrees in Economics and Law.
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Former Chairs and Commissioners
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