Staff Directory

Zachary Harris is the Program Manager at the Center for Law and the Economy, where he works with the Senior Advisor to manage the Center’s administrative duties. Prior to working at the Center, he served in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Director's Financial Analyst fellowship program, where he worked with the Student Loan Ombudsman and the Bureau’s Small Business Lending Markets office to identify and mitigate patterns of harm in consumer complaints. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.

Timothy Wu is a Professor of Law at the Center for Law and the Economy. Hailed as the “architect” of the Biden administration’s competition and antitrust policies, Tim Wu writes and teaches about private power and related topics.  First known for coining the term “net neutrality” in 2002, in recent years Wu has been a leader in the revitalization of American antitrust and has taken a particular focus on the growing power of the big tech platforms. In 2021, he was appointed to serve in the White House as special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy.

A professor at Columbia Law School since 2006, Wu has also held posts in public service. He was enforcement counsel in the New York Attorney General’s Office, worked on competition policy for the National Economic Council during the Barack Obama administration, and worked in antitrust enforcement at the Federal Trade Commission. In 2014, Wu was a Democratic primary candidate for lieutenant governor of New York. 

In his most recent book, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (2025), he argues that tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality, while explaining how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works for everyone. His previous books include The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (2018), The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (2016), The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (2010), and Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World (2006), which he co-authored with Jack Goldsmith. 

Wu was a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and also has written for Slate, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. He once explained the concept of net neutrality to late-night host Stephen Colbert while he rode a rollercoaster. He has been named one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers by the National Law Journal; has made Politico’s list of 50 most influential figures in American politics (more than once); and has been included in the Scientific American 50 of policy leadership.

Wu is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a law clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.

Stephanie T. Nguyen is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy, where she advances investigative research, while building durable institutional capacity to strengthen and support state and local enforcers to understand, detect, and address harms to competition and consumers.

From 2021 to 2025, Nguyen served as Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, where she founded and led the agency’s first Office of Technology. In this role, she built and led multidisciplinary teams supporting competition and consumer protection enforcement, led landmark compelled investigative studies on generative AI investments and partnerships and on surveillance pricing, and strengthened digital investigative capacity across federal and state regulators.

Previously, Nguyen was at the U.S. Digital Service, where she designed and deployed large-scale technology systems serving millions of people, including systems that streamlined federal visa processing, expanded access to Medicare and Medicaid, and supported FAFSA-based federal student loan enrollment. She has also led investigative research as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and Consumer Reports' Digital Lab, where her work exposed predatory fees in food delivery services during the pandemic, pricing disparities in automobile insurance pricing tied to education level and occupation, and abusive data practices in mental health apps. Nguyen was a Gleitsman Fellow and Scholar at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Virginia.

Shaoul is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy. He is also a Partner and Co-Founder of Simonsen Sussman LLP, a board member of the American Economic Liberties Project, and a seasoned antitrust practitioner with extensive experience in private and government practice. 

Sussman formerly served as the Associate Director for Litigation in the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission, where he oversaw the Bureau’s expansive litigation portfolio, focusing on strategic case development and successful outcomes. During his time in the Bureau’s Front Office, he worked on several high-profile cases including the Kroger-Albertsons merger challenge and the lawsuit to unwind Illumina's acquisition of Grail, the first successful challenge to a vertical merger in 40 years. Additionally, he played an instrumental role in the FTC’s landmark monopolization case against Meta. Apart from his litigation work, Sussman played a pivotal role in shaping the FTC and DOJ 2023 Merger Guidelines— which introduced new measures aimed at addressing market consolidation and modernizing merger enforcement standards— and led the efforts to reform the premerger notification process under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. He also led the drafting of several amicus briefs filed by the U.S. government in landmark antitrust cases. 

Sussman previously served as Attorney Advisor to former FTC Chair Khan. Prior to his roles at the FTC, he was in private practice and served as a legal fellow at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and Bard College Berlin. 

Seth Frotman is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy and a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. He formerly served as General Counsel and Senior Advisor to the Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As General Counsel, Frotman oversaw all aspects of the CFPB’s legal work, including litigation, administrative law, ethics, labor and employment, and Congressional oversight. Under his leadership, the CFPB successfully defended the constitutionality of the CFPB at the Supreme Court, resulting in a 7-2 decision in favor of the agency, and also achieved other difficult litigation victories, including in the Fifth and Seventh Circuits. As a member of the Bureau’s senior leadership team, Frotman also had a key role in steering the CFPB’s strong pro-consumer agenda, including combating junk fees and regulating the stampede of Big Tech into consumer finance.

Before returning to the CFPB in 2021, Frotman co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC), a leading nationwide consumer advocacy organization working to end America’s student debt crisis. Prior to co-founding SBPC, he spent seven years at the CFPB in a series of leadership positions, including overseeing the agency’s student loan portfolio as Assistant Director and Student Loan Ombudsman and serving as Senior Advisor to Holly Petraeus, Assistant Director for Servicemember Affairs. In recognition of his efforts to protect military families from predatory lending, Frotman received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. He also previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for Congressman Patrick Murphy, where his accomplishments included the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell;” worked in the New Jersey State Senate on consumer protection legislation; and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. 

Outside of the Center, Frotman also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and as a Senior Fellow at Towards Justice, where he works to advance research and policy advocacy regarding consumer financial protection. He is a graduate of Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the University of Michigan.

Sarang Shah is an incoming Fellow in Public Economic Law at the Center for Law and the Economy and Columbia Law School. He is also a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He writes about corporate law, business corporations, business leaders, money in politics, and political economy. His research has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications.

Shah received his J.D. from Berkeley Law and was licensed by the State Bar of California in 2021. Before pursuing law, Shah served as a data editor for a journalistic non-profit, and as a writer for two startups.  Prior to pursuing law and political journalism, Shah studied theoretical physics at Georgia Tech, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Cambridge, and researched computational neuroscience at Technische Universität Berlin. 

Sarah Miller is the Senior Advisor at the Center for Law and the Economy, where she supports all aspects of the Center’s strategy and operations. She formerly served as Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission under Chair Lina Khan. 

Recognized by The New York Times as being “central to making the issue [of antitrust] prominent,” in 2020 she founded the American Economic Liberties Project to advance a policy agenda to broadly distribute economic power and address systemic corporate concentration. The organization quickly became a hub for anti-monopoly expertise and advocacy. Miller has been profiled in The New York Times and The Washingtonian, published articles in Democracy Journal, Buzzfeed, and The Guardian, and is regularly quoted in national media.

Miller is also a regular advisor to policymakers, serving on President Joe Biden’s transition team prior to her tenure at the FTC. During the Obama administration, she worked as an advisor to the leadership of the Treasury Department. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

Robin Moore is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy. Prior to joining the Center, she served at the Federal Trade Commission for more than two decades, most recently as Principal Deputy General Counsel from February 2023 - October 2025, where she advised senior leaders on congressional oversight, appellate and FOIA litigation, and consumer protection issues. Before becoming the Principal Deputy General Counsel, Moore served as the Chief of Staff for the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Chief of the FTC’s Criminal Liaison Unit, the Bureau of Consumer Protection’s Class Action Fairness Project Coordinator, and a staff attorney in both the Bureau of Consumer Protection and the Bureau of Competition. She also practiced at a large law firm, litigating antitrust and other disputes and advising clients on antitrust and civil and criminal government investigations. 

Moore is a graduate of Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University.

Lina Khan is the Director of the Center for Law and the Economy. She served as chair of the Federal Trade Commission from June 2021 to January 2025. She teaches and writes about antitrust law, infrastructure industries law, the antimonopoly tradition, and law and political economy. Several of her writings have focused on the ways that dominant digital platforms freshly reveal the shortcomings of the current approach to antitrust.

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.

Prior to joining Columbia Law in 2020, Khan served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, where she helped lead the Committee’s investigation into digital markets and the publication of its landmark report. She has also served as legal adviser to Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the Federal Trade Commission and legal director at the Open Markets Institute. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Williams College.

Lev Menand is the Director of the Center for Law and the Economy. He is also an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School where he directs the Project on Public Economic Law. At Columbia, he teaches about financial institutions and administrative law and has written extensively on both subjects, including a book on the Federal Reserve, The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis. In 2022, Menand, along with three co-authors, released a new casebook on the law of Networks, Platforms, and Utilities—the first in the field in over twenty years. 

Menand formerly served as senior adviser to the deputy secretary of the Treasury and as senior adviser to the assistant secretary for Financial Institutions. He was previously an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Supervision Group, where he was part of the Governance and Culture Reform initiative, and in its Research and Statistics Group, where he helped to develop econometric models for the Federal Reserve System’s first Comprehensive Capital Assessment and Review. While at the New York Fed, Menand was seconded to the Financial Stability Oversight Council, where he helped to prepare the council’s first financial stability report.

Menand has also served as a clerk for Judge Jed S. Rakoff on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Harvard University.

Josh Younger is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy and a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.  His research focuses on the history of money, banking, and the Federal Reserve as well as financial stability, financial crisis response, monetary policy implementation, interest rate markets, derivatives markets and other topics.  Josh has held a variety of senior roles over roughly two decades in financial services, including as a Senior Strategist at J.P. Morgan, Global Head of ALM (Asset-Liability Management) at J.P. Morgan, a Senior Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and as an institutional investment manager.  His work has been published in a variety of venues, including the Harvard Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and other publication.  Josh is also co-author of The Global Dollar, forthcoming with Princeton University Press.  He is widely quoted cited and covered by major news outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and others.  He is currently a member of Financial Stability Advisory Council at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Prior to his roles in financial services, Josh was an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ where he was a Member and Hubble Space Telescope Fellow.  His research focused on cosmology, galaxy formation, galaxy collisions, and the growth of supermassive black holes using a combination of observational and theoretical techniques.  He holds an AB in Astrophysics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Harvard University.

Joel Michaels is a Fellow in Public Economic Law at Columbia Law School. He writes about public finance, financial markets, and the nexus between the two. His recent work has explored the regulatory architecture of industrial policy, bank capital requirements, and federal budget law.

Prior to joining Columbia, Michaels was a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he was the policy lead for the $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program. He also advised Treasury’s leadership on a range of other topics, including government-sponsored enterprises, housing policy, and clean energy tax credits. In a previous role, he served in the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) as part of the team designing a modernization of the regulatory review process.

Michaels holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University’s College of Social Studies.

Hannah Garden-Monheit is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, working to translate anti-monopoly thinking into policy change. 

Garden-Monheit formerly served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, where she led development and implementation of competition and consumer protection policy initiatives and advocacy efforts. Prior to joining the FTC, Garden-Monheit served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director for Competition Council Policy. In that role, she helped lead the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts on competition policy, universal broadband, technology policy, nursing home reform, clean energy trade policy, and more.

Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Garden-Monheit served as Senior Policy Advisor to the CARES Act Congressional Oversight Commission, helping to oversee half a trillion dollars in Federal Reserve and Treasury spending. She also previously served as a Supreme Court and appellate attorney in private practice, and as a policy advisor in the Iowa Statehouse. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and Grinnell College.

Erie Meyer is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy, where she focuses on the intersection of technology, privacy, and economic fairness. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and at the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy, where her work explores how law and regulation can promote accountability and innovation. She has spent her career modernizing government services and enforcing the law against corporate repeat offenders. 

Meyer formerly served as Chief Technologist and Senior Advisor to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she helped lead efforts to address Big Tech’s lurch into financial services, and was part of the original team that launched the agency in 2011. At the CFPB, she helped create the consumer complaint system and release open data. In 2025, she received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Protecting Americans’ Privacy, recognizing her leadership in defending privacy and accountability in the digital age.

Prior to returning to the CFPB, Meyer served as Chief Technologist and Director of Policy Planning for FTC Chair Khan, and as Technology Advisor to then-Commissioner Rohit Chopra. She also co-founded and wrote the first line of code at the U.S. Digital Service at the White House, helping to modernize the delivery of government services. Meyer has also served as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House, a Senior Director at Code for America, and a Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She began her public service in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office during the financial crisis, building open-source tools to help protect Ohioans’ consumer rights. She is a graduate of American University, contributor to open source software, and a proud mom.

Douglas Farrar is a Senior Advisor at the Center for Law and the Economy and a skilled public affairs and communications professional with two decades of experience across government, the nonprofit sector, the private sector, and Capitol Hill. He is the Principal at Maywood Strategies, a firm that provides strategic communications counsel and public affairs guidance to clients. Previously, he was the Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Federal Trade Commission, where he was the agency’s lead spokesman and senior advisor to Chair Lina Khan. Earlier, he was Vice President of Communications and Strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, overseeing a global communications team spanning the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Mr. Farrar has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, and several other legacy and new media outlets. He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Axios, POLITICO, and numerous other newspapers, digital publications, substacks, and other written media.

Mr. Farrar has also held leadership roles at the Aspen Institute and in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he advised a senior member of the Appropriations Committee. He is the co-author of A Song to My City: Washington, DC, and earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgetown University.

Doha Mekki is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy. Her academic work focuses on research and writing about competition, consumer law, enforcement of public economic laws, and the courts.

Mekki formerly served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division from 2021 until 2024, and as the Acting Assistant Attorney General until January 2025. In these roles, she supervised civil and criminal enforcement, litigation, trials, appeals, domestic and international policy, competition advocacy, and the expert analysis program. During her time at the Department of Justice, Mekki oversaw investigations and litigation against anticompetitive corporate practices in major markets including digital markets, housing, agriculture, and financial services, among others. Under her supervision, division lawyers filed historic monopolization cases and secured key trial victories. She spearheaded the first comprehensive effort to consider the anticompetitive effects of mergers, conspiracies, and other corporate conduct in labor markets. She also helped shape the division’s thought leadership and enforcement posture on algorithmic collusion.

Mekki served in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division for 10 years, joining in 2015 as a Trial Attorney. She is a three-time recipient of the Assistant Attorney General’s Award of Distinction and testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives about antitrust and competition matters of national significance. She has served as a trusted antitrust counsel and advisor to Republican and Democratic officials alike. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Perelman School of Medicine, as well as Duke University.