Kathryn Walsh

Kathryn Walsh, National Youth Council of Ireland

Kathryn Walsh is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the National Youth Council of Ireland, the representative body for voluntary youth organisations in Ireland.

Kathryn was a Senator for 5 years from 2011-2016 and has also worked in a variety of advisory roles in the Oireachtas. Prior to joining NYCI, she was a policy manager in an Irish health charity, leading on policy and legislative advocacy, securing important amendments to legislation including the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022.

She is a policy and politics graduate with a Masters in Public Policy and MEconSc in European Economic and Public Affairs. Her research interests are the commercial determinants of health and corporate political activity of industry in health policy.