Mitchell Elias Daniels is a businessperson who has been the head of 5 different companies is Chairman of Purdue Research Foundation, Co-Chairman at The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and President at Purdue University and on the board of 9 other companies.

In the past he occupied the position of President-North American Pharmaceutical Operations at Eli Lilly & Co., Governor at State of Indiana, Co-Chairman at The National Research Council and Chief Executive Officer at Hudson Institute, Inc.

Mitchell Elias Daniels received an undergraduate degree from Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, a graduate degree from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.