“The FTC was actually created more than a century ago, in the era of the robber barons and the industrial trust and Standard Oil, to really take on concentrated economic power and the monopolies that Congress worried were squeezing small business and hurting consumers.”

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.