Lina M. Khan

Lina Khan is one of the most consequential legal minds of her generation, and I find her trajectory genuinely striking. She wrote Amazon's Antitrust Paradox as a Yale law student in 2017, and that single essay reframed how an entire field thinks about big tech and competition. Then she went from writing the theory to wielding it as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025, one of the youngest people ever to hold the role. To me that's rare: an academic idea that actually moved into power and policy. Whatever one thinks of her approach, she clearly forced the antitrust conversation to evolve.

Lina Maliha Khan(born March 3, 1989) is a British and American legal scholar who was the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2021 to 2025. She is also an associate professor at Columbia Law School. While a student at Yale Law School, she became known for her work in antitrust and competition law after publishing the essay "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" in 2017.

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Name (English)

Lina M. Khan

Name (Japanese)

リナ・カーン

Reading

りな・かーん

Born

March 3, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

Origin

London, United Kingdom

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Private

Height

Private

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Occupation

lawyer / legal scholar

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Mamaroneck High School

University

Yale University

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

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• Official sitehttps://www.linamkhan.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/linakhanFTC
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

Tags

• lawyer
• legal scholar

Last updated

2026-06-02

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