(RTTNews) – Cut Clegg, Meta Platforms’ (META) president of international affairs, has admitted that he will step down from his role later this year.
Clegg is most likely to be succeeded by Joel Kaplan, who was largely Clegg’s deputy not too long ago and was named Meta’s chief international affairs officer.
“As the strange year begins, I actually have the reach to see that right here is the right time to switch from my role as president, world affairs at Meta. It’s actually been the run of my life! I’m happy with the job. I was actually ready to establish core and support teams at some unspecified time in the company’s future to make sure that innovation can go hand in hand with increased transparency and accountability and unusual variations of governance,” Clegg wrote on X in Thursday.
Clegg joined Meta, then called Fb, in 2018 after nearly two years in British and European public life. After being elected to the British Parliament in 2005, he worked in the European Commission and was a member of the European Parliament for five years. He became leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2007 and was deputy prime minister in the UK’s first embattled coalition government from 2010 to 2015. He has written two best-selling campaign books, Politics: Between the Extremes and How to Stop Brexit (And Originate Britain Extensive Again).
“I hope that I have actually played some part in finding a bridge between the very diverse worlds of technology and politics – worlds that will interact in unpredictable ways at some unspecified time in the world’s future,” Clegg wrote.
His successor, Kaplan, is a prominent Republican turned deputy White House chief of staff under George W. Bush.
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