NneNne Iwuji-Eme is a British diplomat. In March 2018, she was appointed to be the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Mozambique and took up her post in July 2018 in succession to Joanna Kuenssberg. She is the first black woman to represent the United Kingdom as a high commissioner.

Early life and career

Iwuji-Eme, who is of Igbo Nigerian heritage, was born in

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, England, to parents who worked for the

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. She was educated at St Felix School, a

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, from 1990 to 1995. She studied economics at the

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, and has one son. Iwuji-Eme joined the

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(Defra) in 1999 as an economic advisor. In 2002, she moved to the

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(FCO) as Head of Africa, Middle East and Transition Economies in its Economic Policy Department. Prior to her appointment to her current post as High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Mozambique she was the UK's First Secretary in Brazil.

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