The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. The FTC shares jurisdiction over federal civil antitrust law enforcement with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. The agency is headquartered in the Federal Trade Commission Building in Washington,DC.
Kirkland &Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago,Illinois. Founded in 1909,Kirkland &Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys. It was the first law firm in the world to reach US$7 billion in annual revenue.
Celgene Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that makes cancer and immunology drugs. Its major product is Revlimid (lenalidomide),which is used in the treatment of multiple myeloma,and also in certain anemias. The company is incorporated in Delaware,headquartered in Summit,New Jersey,and a subsidiary of Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS).
Christine A. Varney is an American antitrust attorney who served as the U.S. assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division for the Obama administration and as a Federal Trade commissioner in the Clinton administration. Since August 2011,Varney has been a partner of the New York law firm Cravath,Swaine &Moore,where she chairs the antitrust department.
Timothy J. Muris is an American lawyer and academic who served as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2001 to 2004.
Deborah Platt Majoras is the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission,appointed May 11,2004,by President George W. Bush and sworn in on August 16,2004. President Bush had announced his intention to appoint her to the position on July 30,2004. Majoras is a member of the Republican Party.
William Evan Kovacic is an American legal scholar who served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2006 to 2011,including as its chairman from 2008 to 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Pamela LeDeyce Jones Harbour is an American lawyer who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2003 to 2009. As of 2021,Harbour is one of just three African-Americans to have served as a member of the FTC. Additionally,she is one of the just three political independents to serve on the body as of 2017.
Edith Ramirez is an American attorney who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission from 2010 to 2017. Ramirez served as FTC Chair from 2013 to 2017,the first person from an ethnic minority to lead the agency.
Maureen Kraemer Ohlhausen is an American lawyer who is a former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission,a position she held from April 4,2012,to September 25,2018. On January 26,2017,President Donald Trump designated Ohlhausen to serve as Acting Chairwoman of the FTC. In January 2018,she was nominated by President Trump to a seat on the United States Court of Federal Claims. Ohlhausen withdrew her nomination for the federal judiciary in December 2018,opting instead to join Baker Botts as partner and co-chair of the firm's antitrust practice.
Joshua Daniel Wright is an American economist,attorney,and former government official. Wright served as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2013 to 2015. At the time of his nomination,Wright was the fourth economist to serve as an FTC commissioner. Wright was a professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School between 2004 and 2023,and was the executive director of its Global Antitrust Institute (GAI). In 2023,Wright resigned from George Mason following eight allegations of sexual misconduct from former students.
John J. Carson was a 20th-century American politician who served in the Truman Administration as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 1949 to 1953. A Republican who was nominated to one of the party's posts on the FTC,he nevertheless drew ire from his own party owing to his past association with a group of business cooperatives.
Lina M. Khan is a British-American legal scholar who has served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) since 2021. She is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School.
The New Brandeis or neo-Brandeis movement is an antitrust academic and political movement in the United States which argues that excessively centralized private power is dangerous for economical,political and social reasons. Initially called hipster antitrust by its detractors,as also referred to as the "Columbia school" or "Neo-Progressive antitrust," the movement advocates that United States antitrust law return to a broader concern with private power and its negative effects on market competition,income inequality,consumer rights,unemployment,and wage growth.
Noah Joshua Phillips is an American attorney who served on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2018 to 2022. Phillips was appointed to this position in 2018 by President Donald Trump,and was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. During the Biden administration,Phillips was one of two Republicans on the FTC,along with fellow commissioner Christine S. Wilson.
Mary Laurie Azcuenaga is an American attorney who served from 1984 to 1998 as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As of 2017,Azcuenaga is one of just three political independents to serve on the FTC.
Andrew John Strenio,Jr.,known as Andy Strenio,is a retired American attorney and author who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 1986 to 1991. A Democrat,he previously served as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC),a now-defunct independent federal agency.
Deborah Kaye Owen is an American attorney who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from October 25,1989,to August 26,1994. A member of the Republican Party,Owen served previously as an aide to President Ronald Reagan.
George Warren Douglas was an American economist who served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from December 27,1982,until September 18,1985. Though a member of the Democratic Party,Douglas was widely known as a conservative economist,and was known as a supporter of President Ronald Reagan's economic agenda.
