Yanis Varoufakis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yanis Varoufakis
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Mar 24, 1961(1961-03-24)
Age	63
Birthplace	Palaio Faliro
Country	Greece
Birth City	Attica
Horoscope	Pisces

Yanis Varoufakis Biography

Yanis Varoufakis is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on March 24, 1961 in Palaio Faliro, Attica, Greece. This high-ranking economist was Greece’s Minister for Finance in 2015. He was also the Director of the University of Athens’ Doctoral Program in Economics and worked for Valve Corporation earlier in his career.

After meeting Prime Minister He decided to pursue a career in economics after making the acquaintance of Greek economist and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou., a Greek economist, he decided to pursue an economics career.

Varoufakis was born in Palaio Faliro, Athens, on 24 March 1961, to Georgios and Eleni Varoufakis.

Varoufakis was born in Athens in 1961 and attended Moraitis School before moving to the United Kingdom, where he studied mathematics at the University of Essex before attaining a postgraduate degree in mathematical statistics at University of Birmingham and a PhD in economics at Essex. He began a career in academic economics, teaching at the universities of Essex, East Anglia and Cambridge between 1982 and 1988. Following Margaret Thatcher’s third election victory in 1987, Varoufakis left the UK and moved to Australia, where he taught at the University of Sydney until 2000. After eventually acquiring Australian citizenship, he returned to Greece that year to teach at the University of Athens, where he led a doctoral program and was promoted to full professor in 2005. Following this, Varoufakis had periods of advising George Papandreou and working as the economist-in-residence for Valve before moving to the United States to teach at the University of Texas at Austin. Varoufakis has published a number of texts on economics and game theory, such as The Global Minotaur.

He is a native of Palaio Faliro in Greece and the son of Giorgos Varoufakis, a communist Giorgos Varoufakis.

Yanis Varoufakis Net Worth

Yanis Varoufakis is one of the richest Economist from Greece. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yanis Varoufakis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received his bachelor’s and doctorate degrees in economics at the University of Essex in England. Additionally, he earned a master’s in statistics at the University of Birmingham.

He was a professor at the University of East Anglia and University of Essex.

Varoufakis’s father, Georgios Varoufakis, was an Egyptiote Greek (but ultimately originating from Rethymno in Crete) who emigrated from Cairo to Greece in the 1940s, arriving in the midst of the Greek Civil War. One day, he was “roughed up” by the police and asked to sign a denunciation of communism. In response, he said: “Look I am not a Buddhist, but I would never sign a denunciation of Buddhism”. He therefore ended up spending several years imprisoned on the island of Makronisos, which was used for the political re- education of people who fought on the communist side in the war. After being released in 1950, he completed his university studies and found employment as the personal assistant to the owner of Halyvourgiki, Greece’s biggest steel producer. He is now, at the age of 90, Chairman of Halyvourgiki’s Board of Directors.

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He moved to the University of Birmingham in October 1981, obtaining an MSc in mathematical statistics in October 1982. He completed his PhD in economics in 1987 writing a thesis on Optimization and Strikes, back at the University of Essex, where his PhD supervisor was Monojit Chatterji.

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Yanis Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Greece. Yanis Varoufakis celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year.

In 2000, a combination of “nostalgia and abhorrence of the conservative turn of the land Down Under”, led Varoufakis to return to Greece where he was unanimously elected an associate professor of economic theory at the University of Athens. In 2002, Varoufakis established The University of Athens Doctoral Program in Economics (UADPhilEcon), which he directed until 2008. In 2005 he was promoted to full professor of economic theory.