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About Yanis Varoufakis

Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis (born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing European political alliance he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of Alexis Tsipras in 2015, during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis, where he became internationally known for opposing EU-imposed austerity measures.

In 2018, Varoufakis founded MeRA25, the Greek wing of DiEM25, and later served in the Hellenic Parliament from 2019 to 2023. He is Professor of Economic Theory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has held academic positions at institutions including King's College London, University of Cambridge, and the University of Sydney.

Varoufakis is known for his criticism of austerity, neoliberal economics, and the structure of the Eurozone. He is also a co-founder of the Progressive International.

Yanis Varoufakis writes about Economics, Economic policy, Capitalism, History, Financial crises, and Economic conditions. Their best-known work is Techno-Feudalism.

On FindMyTBR we track 10 books by Yanis Varoufakis, 9 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Adults in the Room, Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment, and And the Weak Suffer What They Must?. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.