Mike Boots | |
|---|---|
 Boots at the President's Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) awards ceremony | |
| Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality | |
| In office February 2014 – March 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Nancy Sutley |
| Succeeded by | Christy Goldfuss |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Mike Boots is a former government official who served as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality during part of Barack Obama's presidency.[1][2][3][4] He served in the position from February 2014 – March 2015.
Boots grew up in Los Angeles[5] 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.[2] 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.[5]
Boots is the Executive Vice President at Bill Gates funded Breakthrough Energy.[6]
- ^ Cama, Timothy (11 March 2015). "Obama names new head of White House environmental council". Thehill.com.
- ^ a b "Mike Boots". Obamawhitehouse.archive3s.gov. 2014-08-14.
- ^ Eilperin, Juliet (January 13, 2015). "Mike Boots, one of Obama’s top environmental advisers, to leave in March". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 4, 2018. States that Boots "served as the Council on Environmental Quality's acting head since February 2014"
- ^ "White House expands protections for California's 'Blue Serengeti' - the Washington Post". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2018-10-27. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ a b "White House: Boots on the ground at CEQ". Eenews.net.
- ^ "Mike Boots". www.breakthroughenergy.org. Retrieved 22 September 2021.