title: Mike Boots
text: # Mike Boots
  
  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.
  
  