| Lucia Yar | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
| Office: | Member of the European Parliament for Slovakia |
| Termstart: | 16 July 2024 |
| Birth Date: | 15 May 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Snina, Czechoslovakia |
| Birthname: | Lucia Mrázová |
| Party: | Progressive Slovakia |
| Otherparty: | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party |
| Alma Mater: | Comenius University |
Lucia Yar (; born 15 May 1987) is a Slovak journalist and politician of Progressive Slovakia. She was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]
Lucia Yar was born on 15 May 1987 in Snina.[2] She is of Rusyn and Goral ancestry.[3]
Yar has been a lecturer at Comenius University and the European Security and Defence College. She also worked for the European Commission and was an advisor at the Ministry of Defence.[4]
During the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election campaign, Yar led a campaign Circle a woman, advocating for increasing the female representation in the National Council of Slovakia through preferential votes for female candidates.[5]
From 2017 until announcing her candidacy in the 2024 European Parliament elections, she worked as a journalist in the Slovak version of Euractiv.[6]