Mitchell B. Kohn, is President of Mitchell B. Kohn Lighting Design, with Chicago area offices in Highland Park, Illinois, specializing in interior illumination design for commercial, institutional, and industrial environments.

In addition to consulting to corporations and design firms throughout the country, Kohn is a frequent lecturer at universities and professional organizations, and has been published extensively on both technical subjects as well as design projects. He is a professional member, and Director of Finance, and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, of the International Association of Lighting Designers (I.A.L.D.), a member of the United States National Committee of the Commission Internationale De L'Eclairge (CIE), and a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), for which he served as Chairman of their Office Lighting Committee, responsible for developing and maintaining ANSI standards, for over fifteen years. He is also Past-President of the Chicago Section of the IES, and the recipient of the both the International Illumination Design Award of Distinction, and the Award of Excellence, their highest design award recognition.

Kohn has also been the recipient of a General Electric Edison Award, an I.A.L.D. Design Citation, and a U.S. Patent for developments in the field of task lighting. In 1998 he served as writer and editor of Lighting Focus, a quarterly lighting supplement to Interiors Magazine and Architecture Magazine.