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Image:CarolineLucasMEP Oxford20060411 KaihsuTai.jpg Dr Caroline Patricia Lucas MEP (born 9 December 1960) 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. 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 of which 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 0335090184, ISBN 0335090176). 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 0745319327, hardcover ISBN 0745319335), published in 2004 by Pluto Press and a booklet against the single currency euro: The Euro or a Sustainable Future for Britain? (2000).