According to today’s Globe,

[Massachusetts] Secretary of Administration and Finance Leslie A. Kirwan is submitting her resignation to become dean of administration and finance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

She sounds impressive.

Kirwan, the state’s first female administration and finance secretary, played a key role in implementing Massachusetts’ landmark health care reform initiative through its formative stages. She cochaired the Payment Reform Commission, which made important cost containment recommendations to ensure health care reform’s sustainability. She fought for the funding needed for the health care law to succeed, even in face of one of the state’s worst financial crisis, her colleagues claimed.

The Crimson adds this tidbit:

The appointment follows news in July that then-FAS dean for administration and finance Brett C. Sweet would leave for Vanderbilt after less than a year at Harvard.

And Harvard Mag’s story is here.