Chi Onwurah, was born in 1965 by a Nigerian Dentis, in Wallsend, Newcastel. Today, she is Newcastel's first black MP.
Chi Onwurah is an Electrical Enginner. She worked in hardware and software development, product management, market development and strategy for a variety of mainly private sector companies in a number of different countries – Britain, France, US, Nigeria and Denmark while studying for an MBA at Manchester Business School.
Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and shadow cabinet office minister, thrashed her Conservative Party rival, Simon Kitchen, by a majority of 12, 683 votes. She garnered 19,301 votes in contrast to Kitchen’s 6,628 votes. The 50 year-old Imperial College graduate has already thanked in a tweet, all those who made her election ‘go extremely smoothly’.
Congratulations.
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