(1961-03-24) 24 March 1961 (age 63) Palaio Faliro, South Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Nationality
Greek
Australian (1991–present)[1]
Political party
MeRA25 (2018–present)
Other political affiliations
Syriza (2015)
Spouse
Danae Stratou
Children
1
Alma mater
University of Essex (BSc 1981, PhD 1987)
University of Birmingham (MSc 1982)
Website
Official website
Academic career
Field
Game theory
Political economy
Marxian economics
Influences
Marx
Keynes
Robinson
Kalecki
Papandreou
Galbraith
Mirowski
Sweezy
Leijonhufvud
Wolff
Zizek
Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, romanized: Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, pronounced[ˈʝanizvaruˈfacis]; born 24 March 1961)[2][3] is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was a member of Syriza and was Greece's Minister of Finance between January 2015 and July 2015, negotiating on behalf of the Greek government during the 2009-2018 Greek government-debt crisis.
Varoufakis was first elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament with Syriza, representing the Athens B constituency from January to September 2015. He was appointed Minister of Finance by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, two days after the election, serving in this role between January 2015 and July 2015. Varoufakis then represented Thessaloniki A from July 2019 to May 2023 as a MeRA25 Member of Parliament.
^Varoufakis, Yanis [@yanisvaroufakis] (18 May 2019). "As an Australian citizen (naturalised 1991) I suggest that all of us citizens of Oz hang our heads in collective shame for having elected a climate-change-denying, xenophobic gvt that only Trump can be proud of. And to condemn the ALP for a decade of appeasement and treachery" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
^"Curriculum Vitae of Yanis Varoufakis" (PDF). UOA Economics department. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
founder and General Secretary is former Syriza MP and Finance Minister YanisVaroufakis. MeRa25 is part of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25),...
"Democracy in Europe: DiEM25 in Rome with YanisVaroufakis". openDemocracy. 29 March 2016. Varoufakis, Yanis (December 2015). Capitalism will eat democracy...
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment by YanisVaroufakis about the 2015 Greek bailout. It is Gavras' first feature film that...
future of the Global Economy by YanisVaroufakis - review". Evening Standard. Retrieved 3 April 2016. Varoufakis, Yanis (2015). "The Global Minotaur: America...
she covered 60,000 kilometres with her then partner (now husband) YanisVaroufakis to photograph seven security walls that divide populations. The works...
the ultra-nationalist Greek Solution and leftist MeRA25, headed by YanisVaroufakis, the former finance minister, were targeting younger Greeks. "Dutch...
economist YanisVaroufakis appointed Minister of Finance and Panos Kammenos appointed Minister of Defence. In July 2015, YanisVaroufakis was replaced...
authors include Nawal El Saadawi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Assata Shakur, YanisVaroufakis, Vandana Shiva, Maggie Nelson, Ece Temelkuran and Paul French, as well...
Marxist tendency map". libcom.org. Retrieved 1 October 2011. Varoufakis, Yanis. "YanisVaroufakis thinks we need a radically new way of thinking about the...
original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2013. Varoufakis, Yanis. "YanisVaroufakis thinks we need a radically new way of thinking about the...
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"Sidelining Varoufakis Won't Solve Greece's Real Problem". The New Yorker. Retrieved 14 December 2015. Chrysopoulos, Philip (27 April 2015). "Varoufakis Downsized...
committed themselves. Although winning the referendum, Finance Minister YanisVaroufakis also resigned and was replaced on 6 July by Euclid Tsakalotos. Despite...
'synthesis' of Marxism and Anarchism. PM Press. Screpanti 2007. Varoufakis, Yanis. "YanisVaroufakis thinks we need a radically new way of thinking about the...
Virtuous circle and vicious circle Zero-sum game Shaun Hargreaves Heap, YanisVaroufakis (2004). Game theory: a critical text. Routledge. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-415-25094-8...
suggested that the woman who inspired the song is Danae Stratou, wife of YanisVaroufakis, a former Greek finance minister. Stratou studied at St. Martin's between...
by Douglas Murray". The Sunday Times. Samuel, Juliet (6 May 2017). "YanisVaroufakis and Douglas Murray: why Europe is weary". The Daily Telegraph. "The...
unless its debt was written off in a meaningful way. According to YanisVaroufakis, the combative former Finance Minister of Greece, Lagarde and others...
Financial Times with YanisVaroufakis and Euclid Tsakalotos that asked Greece's creditors to give them a chance. After YanisVaroufakis, the Minister of Finance...
This practice continues with some present day governments. Economist YanisVaroufakis (2013) argues that "discrimination based on utterly arbitrary characteristics...
fourth-most influential thinker in the world, behind Thomas Piketty, YanisVaroufakis, and Naomi Klein. The film documentary Brand: A Second Coming, which...
Giles Fraser was a last minute replacement for Greek finance minister YanisVaroufakis who was scheduled to be on the panel. 17 September 2015: Episode in...
security his future will be sheep Shepard. Ioannis Varoufakis, commonly known as YanisVaroufakis, Greek-Australian economist and politician Ioannis Veliotes...
Movement 2025 (DiEM25) pan-European movement, founded by YanisVaroufakis. In May 2017, Varoufakis has expressed DiEM25's support for Razem in the 2019 European...
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