| Rasa Juknevičienė | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
| Order: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term Start: | 2 July 2019 |
| Constituency: | Lithuania |
| Order1: | President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
| Term Start1: | 24 March 2018 |
| Term End1: | 19 November 2018 |
| Predecessor1: | Paolo Alli |
| Successor1: | Madeleine Moon |
| Order2: | Vice President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly |
| Term Start2: | 21 November 2016 |
| Term End2: | 24 March 2018 |
| Order3: | Minister of National Defence |
| President3: | Valdas Adamkus Dalia Grybauskaitė |
| Primeminister3: | Andrius Kubilius |
| Term Start3: | 9 December 2008 |
| Term End3: | 13 December 2012 |
| Predecessor3: | Juozas Olekas |
| Successor3: | Juozas Olekas |
| Office4: | Deputy Speaker of the Seimas |
| Term Start4: | 9 November 1999 |
| Term End4: | 18 October 2000 |
| Order5: | Member of the Seimas |
| Constituency8: | Anykščiai - Kupiškis |
| Term Start8: | 25 November 1996 |
| Term End8: | 18 October 2000 |
| Predecessor8: | Feliksas Kolosauskas |
| Successor8: | Antanas Baura |
| Constituency7: | Multi-member |
| Term Start7: | 19 October 2000 |
| Term End7: | 14 November 2004 |
| Constituency6: | Žaliakalnis |
| Term Start6: | 15 November 2004 |
| Term End6: | 14 November 2016 |
| Predecessor6: | Henrikas Žukauskas |
| Successor6: | Post abolished Gabrielius Landsbergis (Centras-Žaliakalnis) |
| Constituency5: | Multi-member |
| Term Start5: | 14 November 2016 |
| Term End5: | 1 July 2019 |
| Successor5: | Aistė Gedvilienė |
| Birth Date: | 26 January 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Tiltagaliai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Party: | Homeland Union |
| Spouse: | Rolandas Rastaustkas (divorced) Zenonas Juknevičius |
Rasa Juknevičienė (née Urbonaitė, born 26 January 1958) is a Lithuanian politician and paediatrician, who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She served as Minister of Defense of Lithuania since 2008 to 2012.[1] She is a member of center right Homeland Union.
Juknevičienė is a graduate of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) and worked as a doctor until 1992.
With interruptions, Juknevičienė was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) from 1996 until 2019. During her time in parliament, she held positions as Deputy Chair of the Committee on National Security and Defense; and Head of the Seimas Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[2]
Juknevičienė has been member of the Lithuanian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 1999. She was rapporteur of the Sub-Committee on NATO Partnerships from 2007 to 2008. She served as the Assembly's Vice-President from 2016 until 2018, when she became President.
Since the 2019 European Parliament election, Juknevičienė has been serving on the Parliament's Committee on Development. In 2021, she became Vice-Chair of the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament.
In addition to her committee assignments, Juknevičienė is part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital[3] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.[4]