Lina M. Khan in Conversation: The Henry George series continues February 5, 2026
Professor Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, Ph.D., Henry George Chair in Economics at St. John's University, has announced that Lina M. Khan, former Chair and Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission will visit the SJU Queens campus on Thursday, February 5, 2026. Rather than a lecture, Khan and Gevorkyan will welcome students, colleagues, and community to a "fireside chat" formatted conversation in the Munson Lecture Hall within the Tobin College of Business (Queens Campus) from 1:50pm-3:15pm on Thursday, February 5, 2026. Limited seating is available by RSVP at this link.
"Lina Khan was the youngest appointed Federal Trade Commission chairperson," extolled Dr. Gevorkyan of Khan's impressive career. "She became famous for her work on anti-trust and competition. Her paper on Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox is an important read. She currently teaches at Columbia U Law School and has joined the mayor-elect Mamdani’s transition team as a co-chair. This conversation is exactly how the Henry George Lecture series serves to connect academic economic studies to real-world action."
Inquiries may be directed to Dr. Gevorkyan at [email protected].
The Federal Trade Commission website offers this in-depth bio of Khan's career:
Lina M. Khan served as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission from June 15, 2021 to January 20, 2025. Khan got her start in antitrust as a business reporter and researcher examining consolidation across markets, from airlines to chicken farming. While at the FTC, Khan focused on exercising the full suite of the FTC’s statutory authorities, regularly engaging with and hearing from the public, and ensuring the agency is updating its tools and skillsets to tackle new market realities and next-generation challenges. Priority initiatives included reinvigorating antitrust and consumer protection enforcement, tackling noncompete clauses, protecting people’s sensitive data from unchecked surveillance, and taking on illegal conduct that deprives Americans of access to affordable, high-quality healthcare. A full list of the FTC’s accomplishments during Chair Khan’s tenure is available here.
Prior to joining the FTC, Khan served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. She was also an associate professor at Columbia Law School. Khan is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School.
From Columbia Law School:
Khan’s work has been published by the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, The University of Chicago Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal. The New York Times has described Khan’s scholarship as having “reframed decades of monopoly law,” and Politico has called her “a leader of a new school of antitrust thought.” Her article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” was awarded the 2018 Antitrust Writing Award for Best Academic Unilateral Conduct Article, her article “The Separation of Platforms and Commerce” won the 2019 Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund’s Best Antitrust Article on Remedies, and her co-authored article “The Case for ‘Unfair Methods of Competition’ Rulemaking” received the 2020 Antitrust Writing Award for Best General Antitrust Academic Article.
Khan’s scholarship has also been profiled or discussed by The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She has been named to the Politico 50, Foreign Policy magazine’s Global Thinkers, Prospect magazine’s Top 50 Thinkers, WIRED25, National Journal 50, and Time magazine’s Next Generation Leaders.