Yanis Varoufakis — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) since 2018.
Professor of Economic Theory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Served as Minister of Finance in the Greek government in 2015 during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis.
Co-founded Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) in 2016 and founded MeRA25 in 2018.
Known for opposing EU-imposed austerity measures and criticizing neoliberal economics and the structure of the Eurozone.
Co-founder of the Progressive International.

Biography

Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. He currently serves as the Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing European political alliance he co-founded in 2016. In 2018, he also founded MeRA25, the Greek wing of DiEM25, and served in the Hellenic Parliament from 2019 to 2023.