Steven Groves

Steven Groves is a veteran of the White House, the U.S. State Department and Capitol Hill with more than 20 years of experience working in Washington, D.C. at the intersection of policy, law, politics, and the media.

From 2017 to 2020, Mr. Groves served in the Trump Administration, first as chief of staff to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, and later at the White House in the Counsel’s Office and the Office of the Press Secretary. He previously served on Capitol Hill as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations under Chairman Norm Coleman (R-MN), where he led the subcommittee’s extensive investigation of the United Nations “oil-for-food” scandal.

In private practice, Mr. Groves was an associate at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, specializing in commercial litigation. Before that he served as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Florida, where he litigated civil rights cases, constitutional law issues and criminal appeals, among other matters, in state and federal court.

He has appeared on ABC, BBC, CNBC, CNN and CNN International, CBS “60 Minutes”, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, National Public Radio, Voice of America, NHK, Al Jazeera, Alhurra, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Mr. Groves holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University Law Center, a juris doctorate from Ohio Northern University’s College of Law, and a bachelor of arts in history from Florida State University.