Nessa Childers is an Irish Labour Party politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Ireland East constituency.  Previously Nessa was a councillor for the Blackrock area of South Dublin 2004–2008.
A member of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Nessa is also member the delegation for relations with Japan and substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education.
Nessa Childers has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma in psychology from University College Dublin.
Prior to her election to the European Parliament in 2009 Nessa worked as a psychoanalyst for over twenty years, her practice was established in 1986 with her former husband Ross Skelton. In 1993, along with colleagues, Nessa established the M. Sc. course in Phychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Trinity College Dublin, as well as lecturing and teaching, she was course Director between the years 2001 to 2006.