Nikolas "Nick" Patsaouras (born 1943) is a Greek-born American who is best known as an engineer, urban planner, and public official in Los Angeles, California. He served on the board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the California state-chartered regional transportation planning agency and public transportation operating agency for the County of Los Angeles formed in 1993 out of a merger of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and the...

, where he was a proponent of access by bus. Patsaouras Transit Plaza at the MTA Gateway Center is named in his honor. He also served on the City of Los Angeles Board of Zoning Appeals and is the immediate Past President of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners with oversight of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Nick is Chair of the Oversight Committee for the UCLA/HARBOR Medical Center $400 Million addition of ICU/CCU/TRAUMA Centers, a project that will serve the community with the services lost by the closure of the Martin Luther King Jr.Hospital.

Nick is Chair of the Project Advisory Committee for the new $440 Million Los Angeles Police Administration Building, an almost completed project that is ahead of schedule and substantially under budget and will be the most successful large public project in the history of the City of Los Angeles.

Patsaouras announced on Oct. 27, 2008, that he would be a candidate to succeed Laura Chick as City Controller of the City of Los Angeles in the 2009 municipal election. He lost to Wendy Greuel

Wendy Greuel

Wendy Jane Greuel is a municipal American politician. She is the 18th and current Los Angeles City Controller and former President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District, which includes portions of the San Fernando Valley.-Early Life, Education, and Early...

, a former member of the Los Angeles City Council Patsaouras was a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1993.

Patsaouras is an Electrical Engineer, licensed in the State of California. He is an engineering graduate of California State University Northridge.