Yanis Varoufakis
In 2015, Yanis Varoufakis became the world’s most prominent opponent of austerity when, as finance minister of Greece, he refused to accept the terms of the loan agreement dictated to his bankrupt country by the Eurozone’s leaders.
Since resigning his post he has become the figurehead of an international grassroots movement, speaking to audiences of thousands in cities across Europe.
Born in Athens in 1961, for many years he was a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the UK before he entered politics. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens.
Yanis is the author of several bestselling books including The Global Minotaur, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? (2016), Adults in the Room (2017), and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy. His more recent books are Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present (2020), and Technofeudalism (2023).
In 2025 he published a more personal book about his political awakening, told through the lives of five extraordinary women close to him. Raise Your Soul is again published by Bodley Head.
