Brian Paul Golden (born February 2, 1965) is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1999 to 2004 and was the director of the Boston Planning & Development Agency from 2014 to 2022.

[5] In 1990, Golden was an unsuccessful candidate for the Massachusetts House of Representatives seat in Boston's 19th Suffolk district.

[14] In 2005, Golden was appointed commissioner of the Department of Telecommunications and Energy by Republican Governor Mitt Romney.

He oversaw an historic building boom with 90 million square feet of new development permitted, which was valued at approximately $43 billion.

[22] As chief executive of the agency, Golden was responsible for city planning and 20 million square feet of agency-owned property, primarily located at the Charlestown Navy Yard and Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park.

Golden initiated Boston’s candidacy for Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) World City Prize when the international competition kicked off in 2019.

The Prize Council saluted Boston for its “holistic and cumulative effort on climate resilience, improving housing affordability and mobility options, and fostering civic participation.” [23] Golden was also Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy and a Non-Executive Director at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston.

He deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina with the NATO peacekeeping mission in late 2001, and he was mobilized to the Pentagon in 2003, just as the war in Iraq began.

In 2005, shortly after resigning his House seat, he was deployed to Iraq, where he worked on reforming detention operations in the wake of the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse scandal.

In 2013, Golden was deployed by the Army to Jerusalem and the West Bank where he performed duty with the US Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC).