Janette Sadik-Khan was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on April 27, 2007. Prior to her appointment, she was a Senior Vice President of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a leading international engineering firm.

Commissioner Sadik-Khan is nationally recognized for her expertise in innovative finance, public policy development and transportation issues - knowledge gained in over 15 years of experience at the federal, state and local level.

Before joining Parsons Brinckerhoff, she was Deputy Administrator at the U.S. Department of Transportation. As Chief Financial Officer, she managed the agency's $4 billion annual capital construction budget and was responsible for developing an innovative finance program which provided localities with increased funding and regulatory flexibility. She also served as Director of the Office of Policy where she initiated the FTA's Art in Transit program to expand federal funding for art and design in transit facilities and implemented new criteria to improve the ways in which the benefits of transit capital projects were quantified.

Before her tenure in Washington, DC, Commissioner Sadik-Khan was Director of the Mayor's Office of Transportation for New York City, the Mayor's principal advisor on mass transit and the City's liaison to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She has held key positions at the New York City Department of Transportation, both as Special Counsel to the Commissioner and Legislative Director of the agency.

Commissioner Sadik-Khan writes extensively on transportation, finance and project management issues. She is co-chair of the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Transportation Issues in Major U.S. Cities and is the chair of Reconnecting America. She was a Rockefeller Fellow and has been a visiting scholar at New York University.

Commissioner Sadik-Khan holds a B.A. in Political Science from Occidental College, a law degree from Columbia University School of Law and is a member of the New York State Bar.