Caroline Lucas
Dr. Caroline Patricia Lucas MEP (born December 9, 1960) is an English politician, and member of the European Parliament for the South East of England, since 1999. She is a member of the Green Party. She had previously been a councillor on Oxfordshire County Council, from 1993 to 1997, and has held national office in the party.
She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Exeter in 1989 with a thesis titled Writing for women: a study of woman as reader in Elizabethan romance.
She is one of two Green MEPs from the UK; the other being Jean Lambert. Both of them were elected in 1999, and re-elected in the European Parliament election, 2004.
