Vijaya Gadde

Vijaya Gadde is the Global Board Chair at Mercy Corps and a Partner at #ANGELS, based in California, United States. She previously spent eleven years at Twitter from 2011 to 2022, serving as the social media company's chief legal officer and head of legal, policy, and trust, where she earned nearly $17 million in 2021. During her tenure, she managed high-profile corporate governance and trust and safety decisions before her departure following Elon Musk's acquisition of the social media platform. Before joining Twitter, Gadde worked at Juniper Networks and spent nearly a decade as an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati after earning degrees from Cornell University and New York University School of Law. Her professional career currently focuses on international development and technology investment following her extensive experience in corporate law and platform policy.