Nessa is a Royal Society Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Oxford and also runs her own consultancy and training business. She worked for just under 15 years in a number of senior roles in the biotech and pharma sectors, and is a former academic who specialised in human molecular disorders. Nessa is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, a Non-Executive Director for three companies, and the author of a number of popular science books.