Yanis Varoufakis
| Yanis Varoufakis Γιάνης Βαρουφάκης |
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Varoufakis in Berlin, February 2015
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| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 27 January 2015 – 6 July 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
| Preceded by | Gikas Hardouvelis |
| Succeeded by | Euclid Tsakalotos |
| Member of the Hellenic Parliament | |
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In office 25 January 2015 – 20 September 2015 |
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| Constituency | Athens B |
| Personal details | |
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24 March 1961 Athens, Greece |
| Political party | Syriza |
| Alma mater |
University of Essex University of Birmingham |
| Website | Official website |
| Academic career | |
| Field |
Game theory Political economy |
| School or tradition |
Marxian economics |
| Influences | Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Joan Robinson, Michał Kalecki, John Kenneth Galbraith, Philip Mirowski, Paul Sweezy, Axel Leijonhufvud, Richard D. Wolff |
| Influenced | James Galbraith, Stuart Holland, Steve Keen |
Yanis Varoufakis (Greek: Ιωάννης "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης Ioannis "Gianis" Varoufakis,pronounced [ˈʝanis varuˈfacis]; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015, when he resigned. Varoufakis was also a Syriza member of the Hellenic Parliament (MP) for Athens B from January to September 2015.
Born in Athens in 1961, Varoufakis attended Moraitis School before moving to the United Kingdom, where he studied mathematics at the University of Essex, got a postgraduate degree in mathematical statistics at University of Birmingham, and a PhD in economics back at Essex. Whilst at university, he was a supporter of various political causes. Following university, he began a career in academic economics, teaching at the universities of Essex, East Anglia, and Cambridge between 1982 and 1988. Following Margaret Thatcher's third election victory in 1987, Varoufakis left the UK and moved to Australia, where he taught at the University of Sydney until 2000. He returned to Greece that year to teach at the University of Athens, where he led a doctoral program and was promoted to full professor in 2005. Following this, Varoufakis had periods of advising George Papandreou and working as the economist-in-residence for Valve Corporation before moving to the United States to teach at the University of Texas at Austin. Varoufakis has published a number of texts on economics and game theory, such as The Global Minotaur.
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