Yanis Varoufakis Keynote Speaker

Dr. Yanis Varoufakis is a sought after keynote speaker on global finance and an acute analyst on the changing political landscape and how economies are evolving. He is best known for serving as the Minister of Finance for Greece in 2015.

Today, he leads MeRA25 in Greece and is Co-Founder of the Pan-European movement “DiEM25” as well as the Progressive International.

Yanis is featured in the six part 2022 documentary series  –  ‘In the Eye of the Storm — The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis‘ – this series explores his career and his views on democracy, capitalism, leadership and  the future of humanity

He has written several books, including Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (2023), Another Now (2020), and Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance (2026), as well as numerous other works on economics, politics, society, and Europe.

Varoufakis taught economics and econometrics at the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia. In 1988, he spent a year as a Fellow at the University of Cambridge. From 1989-2000 he taught as senior lecturer in economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Sydney and in 2000 he accepted the offer to become Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens.

From 2004-06, Varoufakis served as economic advisor to George Papandreou, then Leader of the Opposition during 2004-06. In 2012 Varoufakis became Economist-in-Residence at Valve Corporation. He researched the virtual economy on the Steam digital delivery platform, specifically looking at exchange rates and trade deficits. From 2013-14 he taught at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin as a visiting professor.