“In Washington, it's very easy to privilege just some set of voices and not another set of voices. And so we try to open our doors and make sure we are keeping the full country in mind, rather than people who have access to power, or a reporter they can call up and gripe to, or a member of Congress.”

Pakistani-British-American legal scholar, FTC chair from 2021 to 2025

Lina Maliha Khan is a Pakistani-British-American legal scholar and regulator who served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025. She is also an associate professor at Columbia Law School. Khan is known for her work on antitrust and competition policy, and for helping shape debates over the power of large firms and the role of government oversight. Her writing and public statements often focus on market concentration, regulation, and how legal rules affect competition.