Chuka Umunna, is a British-Nigerian businessman and former politician, who represented Streatham as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2010 to 2019. He is a former Labour Party member and served in the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 until 2015.
Born in Lambeth to a Nigerian father and English-Irish mother, Umunna was educated at St Dunstan’s College, a private school in Lewisham and then studied law at the University of Manchester and Nottingham Trent University. Umunna joined the Labour Party in 1997 and was selected as their parliamentary candidate for Streatham in 2008. He was elected MP in the 2010 general election.
In 2019, he resigned from Labour to create The Independent Group, which subsequently became Change UK. After the party failed to get a single MEP elected to the European Parliament, Umunna quit Change UK in 2019 and briefly served as an independent MP before joining the Liberal Democrats. He did not return to the House of Commons after losing his bid to be re-elected in the 2019 general election.
In 2021 he became an investment banker at JPMorgan Chase and was appointed Managing Director of its Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) advisory group in London.
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