Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas giving a keynote speech at the autumn conference of the Green Party of England and Wales, Hove, 2006

Caroline Patricia Lucas MEP (born 9 December 1960 in Malvern, Worcestershire) is an English politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region. She is a member of the Green Party of England and Wales and has been an MEP since 1999 having previously served as a councillor in Oxford. She is one of two Green MEPs from the UK: the other is Jean Lambert. Lucas is currently one of two Principal Speakers for her party (the other is Keith Taylor), which has no leader as such.

She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Exeter in 1989 with the thesis Writing for women: a study of woman as reader in Elizabethan romance published by the Open University Press (ISBN 0-335-09018-4, ISBN 0-335-09017-6). She was previously an Oxfordshire county councillor, from 1993 to 1997.

Lucas and Mike Woodin co-authored the book Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto (paperback ISBN 0-7453-1932-7, hardcover ISBN 0-7453-1933-5), published in 2004 by Pluto Press and a booklet against the single currency euro: The Euro or a Sustainable Future for Britain? (2000).