Lina Khan to become an FTC commissioner

 

Senate confirms progressive tech critic Lina Khan to become an FTC commissioner

 

The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, the young progressive who helped launch a reckoning amongst antitrust scholars and enforcers, in a 69-28 vote.

At 32, Khan will become the youngest commissioner ever confirmed to the agency. Her confirmation also signals a bipartisan desire to impose more regulations on Big Tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet and Apple. Khan received the support of several Republicans, including Commerce Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who participated in her confirmation hearing.

 

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She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School.

Khan was born in London on March 3, 1989,^[2] to Pakistani parents. She moved with them to the United States when she was 11 years old. In 2010, she graduated from Williams College, where she wrote her thesis on Hannah Arendt. She was also the editor of the student newspaper at Williams. 

After graduating she went to work at the New America Foundation, where she did anti-monopoly research and writing for the Open Markets Program. She earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2017,^[1] where she served as submissions editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation.^[3]