Sakina Khan is the Deputy Director for Citywide Strategy and Analysis at the DC Office of Planning (OP). She oversees Data, Analysis and Visualization as well as Citywide Systems planning related to housing, economic development, transportation, sustainability, and capital facilities. Ms. Khan has guided and advised on numerous strategic planning, policy and implementation efforts including the Comprehensive Plan’s citywide elements, the District’s first Cultural Plan and key economic development, housing equity and civic infrastructure initiatives.  

Ms. Khan has twenty years of planning experience in the public and private sectors. Prior to joining OP, she worked at a consulting firm where she specialized in socioeconomic assessment of large-scale infrastructure projects in underserved locations. Ms. Khan holds a Master of City Planning from MIT, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Black Studies from the University of California.