Yanis Varoufakis

MeRA25 Leader & Co-Founder, DiEM25; Former Finance Minister of Greece; Professor of Economics at the University of Athens

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Yanis Varoufakis Biography

Yanis Varoufakis is an author, academic economist, parliamentarian, political leader, and Greece’s former Finance Minister. He is also the co-founder of DiEM25 – Europe’s first transnational movement and leader of its political party in Greece, MeRA25.

In his own words, Varoufakis was “thrust onto the public scene by Europe’s inane handling of an inevitable crisis.” In January 2015, he was elected to Greece's Parliament with the largest majority in the country and served as Greece’s Finance Minister between January and early July of 2015. During those tumultuous six months, he faced down the world’s most powerful institutions – the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank; three institutions committed to a self-defeating strategy of enormous loans and history’s deepest, income-sapping austerity. Varoufakis resigned from the finance ministry when he refused to sign a loan agreement that perpetuated Greece’s debt-deflationary cycle at a great cost to Greece in particular and to Europe more generally.

A year later, Varoufakis co-founded DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement), and two years later, in 2018, he launched its Greek electoral wing (MeRA25). Also in 2018, together with US Senator Bernie Sanders, he established the Progressive International – a global movement whose affiliated members today exceed 200 million persons from across the world. In addition to these organizational endeavors, he has traveled extensively, delivering talks at political, activist, academic, and corporate venues.

Varoufakis read mathematics and economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham and subsequently taught economics at the Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney, Glasgow, Texas, and Athens, where he still holds a Chair in Political Economy and Economic Theory. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Honoris Causa Professor of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Torino, Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King’s College, London, and Doctor of the University Honoris Causa at the University of Sussex.

Varoufakis regularly appears on media such as CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, etc., and has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Telegraph etc. He also has a regular column on Project Syndicate. Varoufakis’ best-selling books include: "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism," "Another Now: A novel," "Adults in the Room: My Struggle Against Europe’s Deep Establishment," "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A brief history of capitalism," "And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to," and "The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy."

His academic books include "Economic Indeterminacy," "Game Theory: An introductory Text," "Foundations of Economics," and "Rational Conflict."

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/22/2024.

Yanis Varoufakis Speaking Topics

  • AI & Cloud Capital: Is This Still Capitalism? (Or Has Capitalism Morphed into Technofeudalism Already?)

  • Crypto: Cryptocurrencies Will Always be Macroeconomically Irrelevant (& Why That’s a Good Thing)

  • Money: How Should we Explain Money to Youngsters & Ourselves

  • Economics: How Should the Dismal Science be Taught & Practiced?

  • Utopia: Can We Imagine a Feasible World that is Economically, Politically & Ethically Superior to Ours?

Yanis Varoufakis Videos

  • China VS America | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech & Capitalism
    The world-famous economist and former Greek Finance Minister joins Ash Sarkar to argue that capitalism is dead and present a game-changing new...
  • Capitalism and Big Tech with Martin Wolf & Yanis Varoufakis
    Yanis Varoufakis and Martin Wolf sit down with Intelligence Squared to discuss whether capitalism is still fit for purpose in the face of online...
  • Yanis Varoufakis at the 2022 Global Investment Forum
    Yanis Varoufakis served as Greece’s Finance Minister during the first six months of 2015. In this interview recorded 9 June 2022 he discusses...

Yanis Varoufakis Books

  • Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
    Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
  • Another Now
    Another Now
  • Talking to My Daughter
    Talking to My Daughter
  • Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment

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Yanis Varoufakis is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as AI & Cloud Capital: Is This Still Capitalism? (Or Has Capitalism Morphed into Technofeudalism Already?), Crypto: Cryptocurrencies Will Always be Macroeconomically Irrelevant (& Why That’s a Good Thing), Money: How Should we Explain Money to Youngsters & Ourselves , Economics: How Should the Dismal Science be Taught & Practiced? and Utopia: Can We Imagine a Feasible World that is Economically, Politically & Ethically Superior to Ours?. The estimated speaking fee range to book Yanis Varoufakis for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Yanis Varoufakis generally travels from Greece and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Yannos Papantoniou, Alberto Alesina, Jeremy Rifkin, Price Fishback and Mark Duggan. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Yanis Varoufakis for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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