NYC’s Mamdani Names Ex-FTC Chief Lina Khan to Transition Team

Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York, center, joined by members of his transition team, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in New York on Nov. 5.

Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg

New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani tapped former Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan to his transition team, a figure who raised the ire of big businesses and dealmakers with her tough approach to antitrust cases.

Khan, who Mamdani named as one of four co-chairs of the transition team, will advise the mayor elect on economic policy and personnel, according to her spokesperson Douglas Farrar.