Mike Boots is a former government official who served as Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality during part of Barack Obama's presidency.

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.

[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.