Lucia Yar
Slovak political analyst, expert on the European Union and international security
Lucia Yar (born Mrázová; born 1987, Snina) is a Slovak political analyst, expert on the European Union and international security, former journalist, and university lecturer.
In the European Parliament elections of June 2024, she was elected as a member of the European Parliament as an independent expert for Progressive Slovakia.
Biography
She was born in Snina and has Rusyn and Goral roots. She studied at the Snina Gymnasium, where she co-founded a school student council, which later became a city student council.
In 2009, she obtained a bachelor's degree from the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava (FiF UK). She continued her master's studies in European studies at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University (FSEV UK), graduating in 2011 with honors and the rector's award.
She completed study programs in international security and European integration at Ghent University and the University of Helsinki.
In 2014, she defended her rigorous thesis on the activities of the European External Action Service at FSEV UK.
After her studies, she worked at the European Commission's Directorate for Enterprise and Industry.
Since 2013, while based in Istanbul, Turkey, she started writing a popular blog, which won her third place in the Blogger of the Year awards in 2014.
Under the supervision of Associate Professor Oľga Gyrfášová, she pursued a doctoral program in political science at FSEV UK from 2019 to 2021.
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