# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yanis-varoufakis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:24:10.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yanis-varoufakis"
name: "Yanis Varoufakis"
slug: "yanis-varoufakis"
description: "Ioannis Georgiou \"Yanis\" Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic, author, and politician. Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, the left-wing European political party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he served as Minister of Finance in the government of Alexis Tsipras in 2015, during the 2009–2018 Greek government-debt crisis, where he became internationally known for opposing EU-imposed austerity measures."
tagline: "Greek economist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2019-04-13_Yanis_Varoufakis_by_Olaf_Kosinsky-0658_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1961-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.133512
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump