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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 | March 3, 1989 London, England, UK |
| Spouse |
Shah Ali (m. 2018) |
| Children | 1 |
| Education | Williams College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
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Lina M. Khan (born March 3, 1989) is a British-born American legal scholar serving as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2021. She is also an associate professor of law 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".[1]
President Joe Biden nominated Khan to the FTC in March 2021, and following her confirmation, she took the chair in June 2021. During her tenure, the FTC has pushed to ban non-compete agreements, filed lawsuits against health care companies engaging in anti-competitive practices, and launched a high-profile lawsuit against Amazon.[2] In 2022, the FTC and the DOJ's anti-trust division blocked a record number of mergers on anti-trust grounds.[3]
- ^ Khan, Lina M. (January 2017). "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". Yale Law Journal. 126 (3): 564–907. Archived from the original on April 5, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2022.
- ^ Sisco, Josh (December 22, 2023). "'She was put in this role to shake things up'". POLITICO.
- ^ "FTC's Khan and DOJ's Kanter Beat Back Deals at Fastest Clip in Decades". Bloomberg.com. December 18, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.