Nessa Childers

Nessa Childers MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
June 2009
Constituency East
Personal details
Born 9 October 1956 (1956-10-09) (age 55)
Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Labour Party,
(Formerly Green Party)
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin,
University College Dublin
Website www.nessachilders.ie

Nessa Maria Vereker Childers (born 9 October 1956) is an Irish Labour Party (S&D) politician who is currently a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East constituency.[1]

She is a former councillor for the Green Party in Blackrock in south Dublin in Ireland. She was elected in 2004 and resigned from her seat in August 2008.[2]

Childers originally joined the Labour Party before the 2004 local elections, but when she failed to get a nomination to run for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, she switched to the Green Party and was elected as a Green councillor.[2]

In September 2008 she resigned from the Green Party to run for the Labour Party in the East constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election.[3]

She has an Arts and Psychology degree from Trinity College, Dublin and a postgraduate diploma from University College Dublin. She previously worked as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the daughter of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers and his second wife, Rita Childers.

Childers is a member of the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the delegation for relations with Japan. Furthermore, Childers is a substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education.

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European Parliament
Preceded by
Avril Doyle
(Fine Gael / EPP)
Member of the European Parliament for East
2009–present
Incumbent