Yanis Varoufakis
Economist and former finance minister
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician who served as Greece's finance minister in 2015. He wrote the memoir Adults in The Room about that period.
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Born 1961 in Athens, Greece
About Yanis Varoufakis
Varoufakis was born in 1961 and has held academic posts at King's College London, the University of Cambridge and the University of Sydney. He is a professor of economic theory at the University of Athens. He was Greece's Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 in the government of Alexis Tsipras, and became known internationally for opposing austerity measures imposed by the European Union. He co-founded the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) in 2016, and in 2018 he founded MeRA25, its Greek wing. He also co-founded the Progressive International. Adults in The Room is his memoir of his struggle with Europe's establishment during his time in government. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy is written as a letter to his teenage daughter and uses stories to explain what economics is.