Sophie Walsh

Sophie is a global leader in Trust and Safety, Risk, Ethics and Compliance, with deep experience operating at the intersection of technology, human rights and organisational accountability.

Across listed technology platforms and international NGOs, she has built and led large, multi-regional functions responsible for protecting users, preventing harm, and embedding ethical decision-making at scale. Her work spans EMEA, APAC and the US, combining rigorous risk frameworks with practical, user-centred execution that delivers measurable improvements in trust, safety and organisational resilience.

She is known for translating complex ethical and regulatory challenges into clear strategic direction for Boards, executives and product teams. This includes designing scalable trust and safety operating models, embedding controls into product lifecycles, strengthening fraud and safeguarding defences, and ensuring accountability across highly regulated and culturally diverse environments. She has led organisations through intense regulatory scrutiny, crisis response and large-scale transformation, consistently prioritising integrity, transparency and long-term trust.

A defining focus of her leadership is the protection of women and marginalised groups. She has spent much of her career addressing gender-based harm, exploitation and abuse, both in digital marketplaces and humanitarian contexts. She brings a trauma-informed, survivor-centred lens to policy, enforcement and operational design, and advocates for systems that do not trade growth or efficiency at the expense of human dignity.

She is a regular public speaker and advisor on trust, safety, ethics and emerging risk, contributing to industry forums and thought leadership on how organisations can meet commercial objectives while upholding social responsibility.

She is motivated by roles where trust is mission-critical, ethical leadership is non-negotiable, and organisations are serious about building safer systems for everyone, especially women.