NEW DELHI: Indian-American and Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde has played a key role in the microblogging site’s decision to permanently suspend US President Donald Trump’s official handle. Trump’s Twitter account was suspended last week after he had tweeted that he would not be attending President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.
The announcement to suspend the account was made by Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal, policy and trust and safety issues. “The account of @realDonaldTrump has been permanently suspended from Twitter due to the risk of further violence. We’ve also published our policy enforcement analysis — you can read more about our decision here,” she tweeted.
Born in India, Gadde had moved to Texas as a child. Her father was a chemical engineer in an oil company in the Gulf of Mexico. She completed her schooling from New Jersey. Gadde is a graduate of the prestigious Cornell University and the New York Law School.
Before joining Twitter in 2011, she had spent around 10 years working in law firms. She was present at the Oval Office when Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey met Trump last year and even joined the Twitter co-founder when he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2018.She is the co-founder of Angels, an investment firm that backs start-ups and helps ensure women receive equal compensation at companies.