Mahnaz Khan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, specializing in the intersection of national security, trade policy, and energy security. She is an expert in critical supply chains and the use of trade policy tools to navigate shifting geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges.

Khan is the vice president of Policy for Critical Supply Chains at Silverado Policy Accelerator, a think tank addressing geopolitical challenges in trade, economic and ecological security, and cybersecurity. In this role, she regularly publishes and speaks on developing innovative bipartisan policy solutions and crafting forward-looking trade policy frameworks to enhance supply chain resilience, with a particular emphasis on critical minerals.

Previously, Khan dedicated fourteen years as a career civil servant across all three US federal trade agencies: the Office of the US Trade Representative, the US International Trade Commission, and the Department of Commerce. During her government service, she was a subject matter expert on diverse economic issues, including digital trade, global privacy regulations, supply chain security, trade agreements, textiles and apparel, and steel and aluminum. Her work led to the authorship or co-authorship of over twenty publications on key trade-related topics. Before her government career, Khan worked in securities regulation during the 2008 financial crisis and held legal roles in Europe and India.

Khan earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration with concentrations in finance and operations management from Boston University and a Juris Doctor in International Business Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law.