Michael C. Mitchell is an American planner, designer, lecturer and environmentalist. His work mainly focuses on the planning and design of destinations, attractions, leisure and rural development.
Mitchell has contributed to more than 2,000 projects in 59 countries over this thirty-five years career.
Early Career
At Portland State University, Mitchell became one of the organizers of the First Earth Day in 1970,responsible for coordinating universities throughout America's northwest states. After the first Earth Day, he was selected to become the one of the ten college students by Richard Nixon administration from all over the country to form the National Youth Environmental Advisory Committee. S.C.O.P.E (Pollution and Environment Student Council) was assigned to the United States Department of the Interior,and Mitchell was the reviewer for the first Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Mitchell continued to collaborate with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop an environmental education program for students about Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games in 1984.
In the early 1980s, Mitchell was recruited by the Los Angeles Organizing Committee as the group Vice President (Finance) of Planning and Control.His responsibilities include overseeing the planning of Olympic venues and supervising the venue planning of the construction department.During the Olympic, he was responsible for the Olympic Operations Center and supervised the closing work after the Olympic.
he also has served as a senior planning consultant for six other Olympic Games and four World Expositions.