Donald Mitchell is the author of fourteen books dedicated to accomplishing the goals of The 400 Year Project: To accelerate the rate of global improvements by more than 20 times beginning in 2015. He is best known book, The 2,000 Percent Solution, was coauthored with Carol Coles and Robert Metz in 1999 and published by AMACOM, quickly becoming a global best seller. He is a graduate of Harvard College, magna cum laude, and of Harvard Law School. He is the founder of The 400 Year Project.