Brian Golden

Biography: In December 2014, upon the recommendation of Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Brian Golden became the Director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Economic Development and Industrial Corporation (BRA/EDIC) after receiving the approval of the agency's Board of Directors. As Director, he leads a staff of more than two hundred professionals who are responsible for urban planning and reviewing major real estate development proposals submitted to the agency. Brian was initially appointed to a senior staff position at the BRA in 2009 and served as Acting Director of the agency for most of 2014. Brian was elected four times to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He represented Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood from 1999-2005 and served as Vice Chair of both the Joint Education Committee and the Joint Government Regulations Committee. He also co-chaired the Commission on School Building Assistance, which successfully worked to overhaul the state policy that governed school construction funding. Brian left the legislature to join the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy as a Commissioner until 2007. From there, he served as New England Regional Director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services until 2009. Brian is a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Reserve. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant in 1993 and served on active duty until 1996. While in the Reserve, he has returned to active duty multiple times, with assignments in Bosnia (2001-2002) during the NATO-led peacekeeping mission; Iraq (2005), where he worked to reform detention operations in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal; Sierra Leone (2011, 2012), where he led a US team responsible for training security officials in preparation for a presidential election; and the West Bank, Jordan, and Israel (2013), where he managed an institutional reform program within the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank security sector. The Secretary of the Army awarded Bria