Larson will chair Greater Boston Chamber

The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced today that Gloria Cordes Larson, president of Bentley College, has been chosen to serve as the new chair of the chamber.

Her two-year term will begin May 14, the chamber said.

Larson, who was the Massacusetts secretary of economic affairs from 1993 to 1996, will succeed Ralph Martin, a partner at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP who has served as chamber chair since 2006, the chamber said.