Natasha Ahmed

Natasha (Tash) Ahmed-Walsh is Head of Public Policy, UK + Europe at Strava, where she leads the company’s public policy and external affairs work across the region. Her focus is on how policy can help more people get active and stay active, with particular attention to youth wellbeing, women’s health and the communities people move in.

Tash brings a broad view of how policy gets made, having worked across UK government, big tech and academia. She holds a master’s in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics and a master’s in Human Development from Harvard University. That grounding in how people grow, learn and thrive, and in the social forces that shape their lives, runs through her approach to policy: evidence-led, people-centred and focused on bringing research and practice closer together.