Biography
Lina M. Khan was sworn in as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission on June 15, 2021.
Prior to becoming head of the FTC, Khan was an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She also previously served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, legal adviser to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra, and legal director at the Open Markets Institute.
Khan’s scholarship on antitrust and competition policy has been published in the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. She is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School.
Important: Chair Khan will never demand money, make threats, tell you to transfer money, or promise you a prize. She also will not ask you for personal or financial information, or call to notify you that you’ve been a victim of identity theft. If you have been targeted by an illegal business practice or scam, contact your local law enforcement authorities, and report it at Reportfraud.ftc.gov.
