Dr. Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, philosopher, and politician who, as Greece’s finance minister in 2015, led the struggle against the European Union’s and the International Monetary Fund’s austerity and bank bailout policies. Since then he co-founded DiEM25 (the Democracy in Europe Movement) and is the leader of MeRA25, DiEM25’s political party in Greece. Before his election to Greece’s Parliament, Dr. Varoufakis taught economics in universities in Britain, Australia, the United States and Greece for three decades. In his own words, he was “thrust onto the public scene by Europe’s inane handling of an inevitable crisis.” In January 2015 he was elected to Greece's Parliament with the largest majority in the country and served as Greece’s Finance Minister from January to July 2015. During his term he experienced first hand the authoritarian inefficiency of the European Union’s institutions and had to negotiate with the Eurogroup, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Varoufakis resigned the finance ministry when he refused to sign a loan agreement that perpetuated Greece’s debt-deflationary cycle. His best-selling books include Adults in the Room: My Struggle Against Europe’s and America’s Deep Establishment (2017) and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism (2017), among others.