Mike Boots
Mike Boots | |
|---|---|
| Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality | |
Acting | |
| In office February 2014 – March 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Nancy Sutley |
| Succeeded by | Christy Goldfuss (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA) Syracuse University (MPA) |
Mike Boots is a former government official who served as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality during part of Barack Obama's presidency. He served in the position from February 2014 – March 2015.
Boots grew up in Los Angeles and graduated with an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and received a B.A. in Communications from the University of California Los Angeles.
Before joining the Obama administration's Council on Environmental Quality as a staffer at the beginning of the new administration's time in office he worked at environmental advocacy group SeaWeb.
Boots is the Executive Vice President at Bill Gates funded Breakthrough Energy.