Yanis Varoufakis is a author, academic economist, parliamentarian, political leader and Greece’s former Finance Minister. He currently leads MeRA25 in Greece and is co-founder of the paneuropean movement DiEM25 as well as the Progressive International.

An academic economist who served as Greece’s Finance Minister in 2015, Varoufakis is the author of best-selling books including Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism (Penguin 2023), Another Now (Penguin 2020), Adults in the Room (Penguin 2017), Talking to My Daughter (Penguin 2017), And the Wake Suffer What They Must? (Penguin 2016), THE Global Minotaur (Zed Books 2011)

Yanis Varoufakis is speaking at the National Press Club courtesy of the Australia Institute and its 30-year anniversary celebrations in 2024.