Kane Simonian is the first administrator (subsequently director) of the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

He is succeeded by Ed Logue (1961), Francis Cuddy (1957), Hale Champion (1968), John Warner (1969), Robert Kenney (1971), Robert Walsh, Robert Ryan, Stephen Coyle, Paul Barrett, Marisa Lago (1994), Thomas O’Brien (1997), Mark Maloney (2000), John Palmieri (2007), Peter Meade (2011), Brian Golden (2014), and James Jemison II (2022).