Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis
Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης
	Varoufakis in 2019
Secretary-General of MeRA25
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 26 March 2018
Preceded by	Position established
Minister of Finance
	In office; 27 January 2015 – 6 July 2015
Prime Minister	Alexis Tsipras
Preceded by	Gikas Hardouvelis
Succeeded by	Euclid Tsakalotos
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
	In office; 8 July 2019 – 21 May 2023
Constituency	Thessaloniki A
	In office; 25 January 2015 – 20 September 2015
Constituency	Athens B
Personal details
Born	Ioannis Georgiou Varoufakis; 24 March 1961 (age 63); Palaio Faliro, South Athens, Kingdom of Greece
Nationality	Greek; Australian (1991–present);
Political party	MeRA25 (2018–present)
Other political; affiliations	Syriza (2015)
Spouse	Danae Stratou
Children	1
Education	University of Essex (BSc, PhD); University of Birmingham (MSc);
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 [ˈʝaniz varuˈfacis]; born 24 March 1961)^[3]^[4] 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.
^ Cadwalladr, Carole (24 September 2023). "'Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse': Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech". The Guardian.
^ officially Ιωάννης Γεωργίου Βαρουφάκης (Ioánnis Georgíou Varoufákis), Hellenic Parliament: MPs' contact details
^ "Curriculum Vitae of Yanis Varoufakis" (PDF). UOA Economics department. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.

[1] 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.

[2] Cadwalladr, Carole (24 September 2023). "'Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse': Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech". The Guardian.

[3] y Ιωάννης Γεωργίου Βαρουφάκης (Ioánnis Georgíou Varoufákis), Hellenic Parliament: MPs' contact details

[CV-4] "Curriculum Vitae of Yanis Varoufakis" (PDF). UOA Economics department. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.

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