Lina Khan | |
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Chair of the Federal Trade Commission | |
Assumed office June 15, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Rebecca Slaughter (acting) |
Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission | |
Assumed office June 15, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Joseph Simons |
Personal details | |
Born | London, England | March 3, 1989
Citizenship | British[1] American |
Political party | Democratic[2][3] |
Spouse |
Shah Rukh Ali (m. 2018) |
Children | 1 |
Education | Williams College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
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Lina Maliha Khan[4] (born March 3, 1989) is a British-born American legal scholar serving since 2021 as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). She is also a professor at Columbia Law School. While a student at Yale Law School, she became known for her work in antitrust and competition law in the United States after publishing the influential essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox".[5] President Joe Biden nominated Khan to the FTC in March 2021, and after her confirmation she became the youngest FTC chair ever in June 2021.[6][7]
(She'd grown up in London and the New York suburbs; her parents, British citizens of Pakistani origin, moved to the US when she was 11.)
The fact that Khan is a Democrat in a Democratic administration
Lina M. Khan was sworn in today as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. President Biden named Khan, a Democrat, to a term on the Commission that expires September 25, 2024, and designated her as Chair. Khan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 15, 2021.
Her Republican supporters have been dubbed the 'Khanservatives.'