Anna Rawlings has readily assumed the mantle of competition and fair trading watchdog with an accompanying rapid rise up the Power List (again) and raised headlines with her recent castigation of the supermarket duopoly that hike their ‘specials’ to their captive market.

However it has been more than just the grocers who have come under Ms Rawling’s scrutiny – so too sanctions and fines for everyone from Genesis Energy to the Auckland Council.

Elevated to her new role in June 2019, Anna Rawlings has been a Commissioner since 2014 and played a key role in consumer affairs under the Fair Trading Act and related consumer legislation before helping beat up the supermarkets and 

A former partner at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts she’s also worked on mergers and enforcement decisions and has a three year initial contract with the Commission.