Former state revenue commissioner Navjeet Bal is headed back to government now that she has been tapped to lead MassDevelopment, a quasi-public state agency.
Bal, who ran the Department of Revenue under then-governor Deval Patrick, has been at Boston-based national nonprofit Social Finance Inc. for nearly a decade, working there as its general counsel and chief compliance officer, and at law firm Nixon Peabody before that.
Governor Maura Healey is bringing Bal back to state government to take over for Dan Rivera, a Baker administration appointee who left earlier this year. Since Rivera’s departure, MassDevelopment has been run on an interim basis by former state economic secretary Dan O’Connell, and then by deputy director Marcos Marrero. The MassDevelopment board voted on Friday to confirm Bal’s appointment, and she begins in the new role on Dec. 9. She’ll earn an annual salary of $275,000.
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