Niki Christoff


Niki Christoff is an American lawyer and former Republican campaign operative, perhaps best known for serving on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Biography

Christoff was born and raised in Pittsboro, Indiana. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2000 and earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2003. Based in Washington D.C., she worked for Republican pollster Frank Luntz before joining Senator John McCain’s Straight Talk America PAC in 2006. She later joined the presidential campaign full-time to work on the public policy team. Christoff left the Republican party and registered as an independent in 2017. She has held senior positions at Google and Uber, and was previously the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Government Relations at Salesforce. In 2019, she was named by Fortune as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Politics.
On March 10, 2020, Christoff was named a member of The Washington Post's The Technology 202 Network, which is described by the newspaper as "a panel of technology experts from across the government, the private sector and the consumer advocacy."