#  Bran Shim 

Senior Advisor to the Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance

 

 

 



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**Bran Shim** serves as Senior Advisor to the Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance (A&F). He assists the Secretary in driving strategic and sustainable investments in housing and economic development across the Commonwealth.

Bran brings over a decade of experience in public finance and budgeting. He currently sits on the boards of MassHousing, Massachusetts Housing Partnership, MassDevelopment, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, MassVentures, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. He previously served as Assistant Secretary and Budget Director, working with the A&F team and over 150 state agencies to formulate and implement the Commonwealth’s $50+ billion operating budget through COVID-19 response and recovery.

Bran volunteers as a Human Services Commissioner and participatory budgeting delegate for the City of Cambridge, where he resides. He is a research affiliate of the Greater Boston Applied Field Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has also been elected by his peers to serve as Eastern Regional Director for the National Association of State Budget Officers, sharing best practices across the states and territories.

Bran has received the Governor Paul Cellucci Award for Leadership & Mentoring in State Government, the Governor Robert F. Bradford Fellowship for Excellence in Public Administration, and the John F. Kennedy Fellowship for exceptional academic ability and professional distinction.

Bran is a CFA® charterholder and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, an A.B. in statistics from Harvard College, and a diploma from the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, where he studied double bass performance.



 

 

 





 

 

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