Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was born on March 20, 1964. He is a happily married man ,popularly known as “Gburugburu”, a word derived from the chieftaincy title of Dunu Gburugburu of Orba, conferred on him by his native Orba people in Udenu council area of Enugu State in 2002 before he ventured into partisan politics, Hon. Ugwuanyi, represents the Igbo-Eze North/Udenu federal constituency in the House of Representatives. Now serving out his third term in the House, a journey he began in 2003 when he won his first election into the Green Chambers of the national legislature, his entrance into the governorship race which recently resulted in his emergence as the consensus candidate of PDP has several phenomenal features. 

A professional who passed through the proverbial mills to become a chief executive officer in the private sector, he is today acclaimed among the people of his constituency as a legislator who has ministered to the needs of his people like no one has ever done in the past in that realm. Giving deserved credence to his Legislative Interests: Economic Empowerment & Poverty Alleviation through improved legislative culture as well as his Target Achievements: Poverty Alleviation.

In terms of philanthropy, Hon.Ugwuanyi rose to become the 16th president of the Rotary Club of Emene in 2000 where he imbibed the Rotary principle of selfless service to humanity. This trait, he seems to have carried to his political career where he has been involved in quiet philanthropy.

His goodwill, especially in his federal constituency, spans the scholarships to needy students at all educational levels, infrastructural developments in educational institutions and in churches, provision of electric transformers to several communities in the constituency, which he attracted from the Federal Rural Electrification Agency, as well as provision of boreholes to solve the water needs of some communities in his constituency, among many others.