Greg Mecher

Greg Mecher is a Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Strategic Communications Public Affairs team. Greg has extensive political experience at the Federal level, with more than two decades leading high-performing teams to solve complex political and policy challenges. Most recently, Greg served as Chief of Staff to Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts over four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, where Kennedy sat on the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.

In the Obama administration, Greg served as Chief of Staff for the multibillion-dollar General Services Administration (“GSA”) in Washington, DC. In that role, he advised the administrator and other agency officials on all areas of the agency’s mission, including contracting, acquisitions, real estate, construction, IT, litigation, personnel and labor relations, travel and transportation, ethics and the GSA fleet. In addition, he helped the agency navigate a period of political turmoil while simultaneously serving as communications director.

Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Mecher served in various roles in politics. His first opportunity to serve as Chief of Staff to a member of Congress came while working for Rep. Steve Driehaus in Ohio’s first congressional district, where he grew up. Additionally, he spent two congressional cycles working to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee under Patrick J. Kennedy and Rahm Emanuel as chairmen. Additionally, he worked to elect John Kerry as President of the United States while working for the Democratic National Committee under future Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. He was a volunteer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016 and for both of President Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

Greg is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University, where he received a B.A. in Communications. He was also appointed as a member of the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents from 1998-1999.