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Lina Khan
| Lina Khan | |
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| Organization: | Biden administration |
| Role: | Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission |
| Affiliation: | Democratic |
| Education: | • Williams College • Yale Law School |
Lina Khan was the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 15, 2021.[1]
Khan was a legal scholar with expertise in antitrust law. President Joe Biden (D) announced on March 22, 2021, that he had selected Khan as his nominee for commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.[2]
Biography
Khan received a B.A. from Williams College in 2010 and J.D. from Yale Law School in 2017.[3] During law school, she worked as a summer associate at Gupta Wessler PLLC and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She was the legal director of the Open Markets Institute from 2017 to 2018.[4]
In 2018, she was a legal fellow at the Federal Trade Commission and an academic fellow at Columbia Law School. From 2019 to 2020, Khan served as counsel for the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. She became an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School in September 2020.[4]
Khan's scholarship focused on antitrust, infrastructure, and antimonopoly law. Her profile at Columbia Law School described a portion of her research as "focused on the ways that dominant digital platforms freshly reveal the shortcomings of the current approach to antitrust."[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Roll Call, "Khan sworn in as chairwoman of FTC in surprise White House move," June 16, 2021
- ↑ White House, "President Biden Announces his Intent to Nominate Lina Khan for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission," March 22, 2021
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Columbia Law School, "Lina Khan," accessed March 23, 2021
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 LinkedIn, "Lina Khan," accessed March 23, 2021
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