Chi Onwurah is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central since 2010. She was shadow minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and innovation under Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from October 2016 until 2020, when she was appointed the shadow minister for Science, Research & Digital by Keir Starmer.
Onwurah’s mother was from Newcastle. Her father from Nigeria, worked as a dentist while studying at Newcastle University Medical School where they met. Onwurah was born in North Tyneside in 1965, the same year her family moved to Nigeria. Two years later the Biafra War broke out, forcing her mother to bring the children back to Tyneside, while her father stayed in the Biafran army. Onwurah graduated from Imperial College London in 1987 with a degree in electrical engineering. She worked in hardware and software development, product management, market development and strategy for mainly private sector companies in several countries, in the UK, France, the United States, Nigeria and Denmark while studying for an MBA at Manchester Business School. Before entering Parliament, Onwurah was active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
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Chi Onwurah MP – Member of Parliament for Newcastle Central
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