Nick Clegg returns to London with other Facebook owner execs
Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs at Facebook’s parent company, is partly relocating to London as he joins senior colleagues in moving to the UK capital.
The former Liberal Democrat leader will divide his time between California, where he lives currently, and London. Clegg’s new executive role at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will require more travelling and it is understood that Clegg sees London as a suitable base for visiting Europe and Asia.
The Financial Times, which first reported the move, said Clegg wanted to spend more time in the UK and continental Europe for personal reasons, including wanting to be closer to his elderly parents.
Clegg joined Meta in 2018 and moved with his family to California, but had been clear that he wanted to return to Europe at some point, telling the FT last year that his “heart belongs massively 5,000 miles away”.
Clegg’s wife, Miriam González Durántez, a senior international trade lawyer, has also referred to missing Europe in her Instagram posts, stating last year that she felt like “kissing the ground” after returning to her native Spain for the first time in 18 months.
Clegg was promoted from his former role as vice-president of global affairs and communications in February. At the time, Zuckerberg said the role would put Clegg “at the level” of himself and Sheryl Sandberg, who has since announced she is stepping down as the company’s chief operating officer.
Before his promotion, Clegg played a prominent role in addressing revelations last year from the whistleblower Frances Haugen, who accused Facebook’s owner of putting “astronomical profits before people”, harming children and destabilising democracies.
Clegg denied Haugen’s claim, based on internal documents, that Facebook
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