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Yanis Varoufakis
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Yanis Varoufakis
MP
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Minister of Finance
Incumbent
Assumed office
27 January 2015
Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras
Preceded by
Gikas Hardouvelis
Personal details
Born
(1961-03-24) 24 March 1961 (age 54)
Athens, Greece
Political party
Independent
Syriza parliamentary faction (2015–present)
Alma mater
University of Essex
University of Birmingham
Website
Official website
Academic career
Field
Game theory
Political economy
Post-Keynesian economics
Influences
Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Joan Robinson, Michal Kalecki, John Kenneth Galbraith, Philip Mirowski, Paul Sweezy, Axel Leijonhufvud
Influenced
James Galbraith, Stuart Holland, Steve Keen
Yanis Varoufakis (Greek: G????? ?a???f????; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist. He is the current finance minister of Greece. In the January 2015 general election, he was elected to the Greek parliament, representing SYRIZA, and took office in the new government of Alexis Tsipras two days later, on 27 January 2015. He is a political economist, professor, and author, and has dual Greek-Australian nationality.Varoufakis is a participant in the current debates on the global and European crisis, the author of The Global Minotaur and several academic texts on economics and game theory, Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens and a private consultant for Valve Corporation.
^ "The rise of 'Dr Doom': Yanis Varoufakis' explosive new role". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
^ "Curriculum Vitae of Yanis Varoufakis" (PDF). UOA Economics department.
^ Philip Innan and Katie Allen (26 January 2015). "The Guardian". Retrieved 27 January 2015.
^ Helena Smith (26 January 2015). "The Guardian". Retrieved 26 January 2015.
^ Prarthito Maity (January 27, 2015), Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece, International Business Times
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