Lina Khan

Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1989-03-03

• Name

  Lina Maliha Khan

• Role

  Anti-M&A Regulator

• Spouse

  Shah Rukh Ali

• Children

  1

• Known For

  Amazon's Antitrust Paradox

• Alma Mater

  Williams College, Yale Law School

• Birthplace

  London, England

• Occupation

  Legal Scholar, Associate Professor, Regulator

• Citizenship

  British, American

• Political Party

  Democratic

Timeline

• Born in London, England. (Source: web_search_results)

  1989-03-03

• Moved from the United Kingdom to the United States at age 11. (Source: web_search_results)

  2000

• Graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political theory. (Source: web_search_results)

  2010

• Served as a policy analyst for the Open Markets Program at the New America Foundation. (Source: web_search_results)

  2011-2014

• Graduated from Yale Law School with a J.D. degree. (Source: web_search_results)

  2017

• Published the essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" in the Yale Law Journal. (Source: summary, wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2017

• Served as legal director of the Open Markets Institute. (Source: web_search_results)

  2017-2018

• Served as a legal fellow at the Federal Trade Commission. (Source: web_search_results)

  2018

• Married Shah Rukh Ali. (Source: web_search_results)

  2018

• Served as legal counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. (Source: web_search_results)

  2019-2020

• Joined the faculty of Columbia Law School as an associate professor. (Source: web_search_results)

  2020

• Nominated by President Joe Biden to the Federal Trade Commission. (Source: summary, wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2021-03

• Confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 69-28. (Source: web_search_results)

  2021-06-15

• Named Chair of the Federal Trade Commission by President Joe Biden, becoming the youngest FTC chair. (Source: summary, wikipedia, web_search_results)

  2021-06-15

• Concluded her term as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. (Source: web_search_results)

  2025-01-20

Lina Khan

Lina Maliha Khan (born March 3, 1989) is an American legal scholar who was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2021 to 2025. She is also an associate 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 essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". President Joe Biden nominated her to the FTC in March 2021, and after her confirmation she became the youngest FTC chair ever in June 2021.

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• Lina Khan | Biography, Education, Scholarship, FTC, & Facts

  Lina Khan (born March 3, 1989, London, England) is a British-born American legal scholar who served as commissioner and chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2021. Nominated by Pres. Joe Biden in March as one of five commissioners of the FTC, she was confirmed on June 15 by a Senate vote of 69–28. Later that day Biden named her chair of the commission. At 32 years old, she was the youngest chairperson in the history of the FTC. [...] Khan and her Pakistani parents moved from the United Kingdom to the United States when she was 11 years old. She received a B.A. degree (2010) in political theory at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and a J.D. degree (2017) from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. From 2011 to 2014 she served as a policy analyst for the Open Markets Program (later the independent Open Markets Institute) at the New America Foundation (now New America), a left-leaning think tank focused on [...] the social ramifications of rapid technological change, and from 2017 to 2018 she was legal director of the Open Markets Institute. She was later a legal fellow at the FTC (2018) and a legal counsel for the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law (2019–20). In 2020 she joined the faculty of Columbia Law School in New York City as an associate professor.

• Lina Khan - Wikipedia

  Lina Maliha Khan (born March 3, 1989) is an American legal scholar who was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2021 to 2025. She is also an associate 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 essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". President Joe Biden nominated her to the FTC in March 2021, and after her confirmation she became the youngest FTC chair [...] At Mamaroneck High School, Khan was involved in the student newspaper. After high school, she studied political science at Williams College in Massachusetts. She spent her junior year studying at Exeter College, Oxford through the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford "Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO)"). She was the editor of the Williams College student newspaper and wrote her senior thesis on Hannah Arendt. She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts. [...] | Personal details | | | Born | (1989-03-03) March 3, 1989 (age 36) London, England | | Citizenship | British American | | Political party | Democratic "Democratic Party (United States)") | | Spouse | Shah Rukh Ali ​ (m. 2018)​ | | Children | 1 | | Education | Williams College (BA) Yale University (JD) | | Signature | Lina Khan signature | | | |

• Lina Khan | Columbia Law School

  Lina Khan served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from June 2021 to January 2025. She teaches and writes about antitrust law, infrastructure industries law, the antimonopoly tradition, and law and political economy. Several of her writings have focused on the ways that dominant digital platforms freshly reveal the shortcomings of the current approach to antitrust. [...] Columbia Law professor Lina Khan in blue jacket and white camisole ### Antitrust Scholar Lina Khan Joins Faculty A leading critic of Big Tech’s monopolistic practices, Khan recently co-authored a landmark Congressional report on competition in the digital marketplace. ### How Big Tech Is Weaponizing Your Data Against You ### Lina Khan: How to Fight Corporate Power Under Trump ### The Fight Over “Click To Cancel” Isn’t Over Columbia Law School logo [...] Prior to joining Columbia Law in 2020, Khan served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, where she helped lead the Committee’s investigation into digital markets and the publication of its landmark report. She has also served as legal adviser to Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the Federal Trade Commission and legal director at the Open Markets Institute. ## Publications ## News and Press ## Related News and Stories

• Lina M. Khan | Federal Trade Commission

  Lina M. Khan served as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission from June 15, 2021 to January 20, 2025. Khan got her start in antitrust as a business reporter and researcher examining consolidation across markets, from airlines to chicken farming. While at the FTC, Khan focused on exercising the full suite of the FTC’s statutory authorities, regularly engaging with and hearing from the public, and ensuring the agency is updating its tools and skillsets to tackle new market realities and [...] Prior to joining the FTC, Khan served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. She was also an associate professor at Columbia Law School. Khan is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School. ## Speeches, Articles, and Statements ### Has "Lina M. Khan" contacted you? [...] Looking for legal documents or records? Search the Legal Library instead. ## Breadcrumb # Lina M. Khan Lina Khan Download Hi-res (59.6 KB) ### Former Chair and Commissioner Follow @LinaKhanFTC ## Biography

• 'She's going to prevail': FTC head Lina Khan is fighting for an anti ...

  Across 96 pages of the Yale Law Journal in 2017, Lina Khan set out why she believed the US’s policing of big business was failing. The paper – which targeted Amazon – shook the Silicon Valley establishment and catapulted Khan into the heart of a battle over America’s business orthodoxy and, ultimately, into a role in which she could overhaul it. [...] Khan’s antitrust origin story starts in 2011 when, fresh out of Williams College, she applied unsuccessfully for two jobs at New America, an influential Washington thinktank. Her name was passed to Barry Lynn. Lynn, an antitrust scholar building a program focused on monopolization, had secured funding for one full-time staffer for his Open Markets program. He was seeking someone “plain smart”, without “any theories, any twists, any alterations by any specialized academy”. [...] A few years later, studying at Yale Law School, Khan turned her focus back to Amazon. This titan’s structure and conduct across myriad industries raised “anticompetitive concerns – yet it has escaped antitrust scrutiny”. she wrote in the Yale Law Journal. In legal circles, the note went viral. Its author was profiled in the the New York Times, and became a leading voice in the campaign for a fundamental shift in how government measures market power, and tackles monopolistic activity.

Lina M. Khan (born March 3, 1989) is a British-born American legal scholar serving as chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission since 2021. 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". She was nominated by President Joe Biden to the Commission in March 2021, and has served since June 2021 following her confirmation. She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School.