Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, will leave the company in 2027 after more than 15 years, Bloomberg reported. He will stay through the US midterm elections. No successor was named, but president Dina Powell McCormick and chief legal officer C.J. Mahoney are taking on more policy work.
Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, is leaving the company, Bloomberg reported, citing a company representative. He will stay through the US midterm elections in November and leave in 2027, after more than 15 years at Meta.
Kaplan, a long-time adviser to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg with strong Republican ties, joined Meta in 2011 to run its US policy team. He previously worked on George W. Bush’s campaign and in his White House.
He became Meta’s top policy executive in January 2025, replacing Nick Clegg just before Donald Trump returned to the White House. He has since led the company’s dealings with the Trump administration.
Meta has not named a successor. Dina Powell McCormick, Meta’s president and a former Trump administration official, and chief legal officer C.J. Mahoney are taking on more policy work, Quartz reported.
Powell McCormick joined Meta’s leadership in January from its board. She now helps run Meta Compute, its AI infrastructure push, and handles concerns about the company’s data centres, Bloomberg said.
Kaplan’s exit comes at a busy time for Meta in Washington and beyond. In August, it agreed to pay up to $16.68B to settle a youth safety case brought by 29 US states.
The company also expects to spend up to $145B on capital projects this year, mostly on AI. In Europe, it declined to sign the EU’s voluntary AI code of practice.
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