Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis
Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης
Varoufakis in 2019
Secretary-General of MeRA25
Assumed office
26 March 2018
Preceded byPosition established
Minister of Finance
In office
27 January 2015 – 6 July 2015
Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras
Preceded byGikas Hardouvelis
Succeeded byEuclid Tsakalotos
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
In office
8 July 2019 – 21 May 2023
ConstituencyThessaloniki A
In office
25 January 2015 – 20 September 2015
ConstituencyAthens B
Personal details
Born
Ioannis Georgiou Varoufakis

(1961-03-24) 24 March 1961 (age 64)
Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece
Political partyMeRA25 (2018–present)
Other political
affiliations
Syriza (2015)
SpouseDanae Stratou
Children1[1]
Education
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
Academic career
Field
Influences

Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis[a] (/ˈjænɪs værˈfækɪs/;[2] 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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 'British politics is becoming poisoned' says Yanis Varoufakis – BBC Newsnight on YouTube
  3. ^ Hellenic Parliament: MPs' contact details
  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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