Moushumi M. Khan

Moushumi Khan is an attorney and business consultant in private practice in New York City. Since February 2001 Ms. Khan has been in solo legal practice concentrating on corporate and civil rights law.

Ms. Khan is a leading emerging voice on civil liberties, religious accommodation, and interfaith relations. She has advocated for the South Asian and Muslim American communities on post 9/11 civil rights concerns, including the National Security Entry and Exit Registration Program and racial profiling. She has served on Advisory Committees at the Council on Foreign Relations on immigration, national security and public diplomacy, and participated in drafting the Council Special Report “A New Beginning: Strategies for a More Fruitful Dialogue with the Muslim World.”

Ms. Khan is a co-founder and President of the Muslim Bar Association of New York and is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has won numerous awards for her community service. Ms. Khan is also an active participant in public diplomacy efforts involving the United States and the immigrant community.

Ms. Khan earned her J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1996 and received an A.B. degree in Critical Social Thought, cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College in 1993. She was awarded a Certificate in General Course in the Government Department of the London School of Economics in 1991, where she did her junior year abroad. Ms. Khan is admitted to practice law in New York.