Career

Sir Nick Clegg is the former UK Deputy Prime Minister (2010-2015) andformer President, Global Affairs at Meta (2018-2025). Prior to beingelected to the UK Parliament in 2005, he worked in the European Commissionand served for five years as a member of the European Parliament. Hebecame leader of the Liberal Democrat party in 2007 and served as DeputyPrime Minister in the UK's first coalition government since the war, from2010 to 2015. He joined Meta, then called Facebook, in 2018 and became thecompany's chief policy decision-maker and its principal interlocutor withworld leaders, governments and policymakers around the globe. He hasauthored numerous publications, including, How to Save the Internet: TheThreat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict;Politics: Between the Extremes; and How To Stop Brexit (And Make BritainGreat Again).

In December 2025 Sir Nick Clegg announced he was becoming a GeneralPartner at Hiro Capital, fostering the growth of leading spatial computingtechnologies in Europe alongside prominent figures in the tech industry,such as Professor Yann LeCun and Sir Ian Livingstone.

In March 2026, Nick announced he was joining the Board of Directors atNscale, a London-based AI infrastructure company building large-scalecompute and data-centre capacity to support the next generation ofartificial intelligence technologies.

Nick also sits on the advisory board of Efekta, a European EdTech companyproviding AI powered learning tools to support teaching and personalisedlearning, especially in countries across the global south with chronicteacher shortages.

Books

Published in 2016, Politics: Between the Extremes is a frank account of Sir Nick’s success in the 2010 election through to cataclysmic defeat in 2015 and the consequences of an increasingly divided public discourse.

Divided public debate and its consequences were central to the theme of Sir Nick’s next book How to Stop Brexit which argued, during the withdrawal negotiations in 2017, that leaving the EU would be deeply damaging to the UK and was being led by a cabal of the self-serving elite.

In 2019 Sir Nick joined former Prime Minister John Major to explore the health of UK democracy in their book The Responsibilities of Democracy.

Sir Nick has also contributed to a large number of pamphlets and books about public policy.

Awards

He received a knighthood in the 2018 New Year’s honours list.
In 1993 Sir Nick won the inaugural Financial Times David Thomas Prize, in remembrance of an FT journalist killed on assignment in Kuwait in 1991.

Personal Life

Sir Nick lives in California with his wife and three sons.

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