“So, my job is to enforce the laws that Congress has written. And I'm very sympathetic to the idea that, you know, when you go from decades of more lax enforcement to now an approach that is being more rigorous, that that can be disorienting for the business community.”

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.