Yanis Varoufakis

Born in Athens, 1961, where he completed his secondary education, Yanis Varoufakis moved to England to read Mathematical Economics (Essex), Mathematical Statistics (Birmingham) and to complete a Ph.D. in Economics (Essex). His academic appointments (teaching economics, econometrics and political philosophy and game theory), began at the University of Essex and then took him to the Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney and Glasgow. Since 1996, he has served as Hoover Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at the Université Catholique de Louvain. In 2000 Varoufakis returned to his native Greece to take up an appointment at the University of Athens as Professor of Economic Theory as well as to found UADPhilEcon, an international doctorate program in economics. He is currently Director of the Division of Political Economy.

His books include: The Global Minotaur: The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (2011); Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World (with J. Halevi and N. Theocarakis, 2011); Game Theory: A Critical Text (with S. Hargreaves-Heap, 2004); Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion (1998); and Rational Conflit (1991).