The Commissioner

Asim Rehman, Commissioner and Chair

On April 8, 2026, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani appointed Asim Rehman as Commissioner and Chair of the New York City Business Integrity Commission.

Commissioner Rehman brings to BIC 25 years of legal and management experience.  He began his legal career as a federal law clerk in the Southern District of New York and then practiced law with two law firms, handling complex litigation, white-collar criminal defense, internal and government investigations, anti-corruption matters, and a broad range of pro bono cases. During this time, he also served as a pro bono special assistant district attorney in Brooklyn. Commissioner Rehman later worked as corporate counsel for a major financial institution, where he litigated a broad range of domestic matters, assisted the company with regulatory compliance, and helped manage the corporation’s overseas litigation.

In 2014, following the passage of the Community Safety Act, Commissioner Rehman joined city service as the inaugural General Counsel of the newly opened Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD within the NYC Department of Investigation. He was subsequently promoted to First Deputy Inspector General. In 2020, Commissioner Rehman joined the NYC Law Department as Chief of Staff where he supervised complex litigation, worked closely with partner agencies, helped the Law Department advise the City on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and assisted the Corporation Counsel with the overall management of the Law Department. In September 2021, Commissioner Rehman joined the NYC Department of Correction as General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters.  Most recently, from 2022 until early 2026, he was Commissioner and Chief Administrative Law Judge at the NYC Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings.  In this role, he led the nation’s largest and busiest municipal administrative law court and was the steward OATH’s mission to provide impartial, fair, just, and timely decisions to all parties who appear before the tribunal. 

A Staten Island native, Commissioner Rehman is a graduate of Haverford College and the University of Michigan Law School.