Nick Clegg, former British deputy prime minister and current president of global affairs at Meta, is leaving the company after six years.

“It truly was an adventure of a lifetime!” Clegg said in a post on Facebook. “I am proud of the work I have been able to do in leading and supporting teams across the company to ensure that innovation can be accompanied by greater transparency and accountability and new forms of governance.”

Clegg joined the Facebook parent company in 2018 as vice president of global affairs and communications for the social media platform. At the time, the company was under intense scrutiny because of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and its role in the 2016 US presidential election. He was promoted to chief policy officer in 2022 after helping create the Facebook Oversight Board – an independent body that makes decisions about the social network’s moderation policies.

“My time at the company coincided with a significant realignment of the relationship between ‘Big Tech’ and societal pressures, manifested in new laws, institutions and norms impacting the sector,” Clegg wrote. “I hope that I have helped build a bridge between the very different worlds of technology and politics – worlds that will continue to interact in unpredictable ways around the world.”

Clegg will be replaced by his deputy, Joel Kaplan, who, as Clegg wrote, “is clearly the right person for the right job at the right time.”