Yanis Varoufakis at the 2022 Global Investment Forum

Yanis Varoufakis served as Greece’s Finance Minister during the first six months of 2015. In this interview recorded 9 June 2022 he discusses Europe, the war in Ukraine, techno-feudalism as well as challenges ahead.

Varoufakis read mathematics and economics at the Universities of Essex and Birmingham and subsequently taught economics at the Universities of East Anglia, Cambridge, Sydney, Glasgow, Texas and Athens where he still holds a Chair in Political Economy and Economic Theory. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Honoris Causa Professor of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Torino, Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King’s College, London, and Doctor of the University Honoris Causa at University of Sussex.

Interview by journalist Tanya Beckett.