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Yanis Varoufakis (,〔officially Ιωάννης Γεωργίου Βαρουφάκης, (Hellenic Parliament: MPs’ contact details )〕 ; born 24 March 1961)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.econ.uoa.gr/fileadmin/econ.uoa.gr/en/uploads/CV_Varoufakis_2014_eng.pdf )〕 is an academic economist who was a member of the Greek parliament between January and September 2015. He represented the ruling Syriza party and held the position of Minister of Finance for seven months. He voted against the terms of the third bailout package for Greece. Varoufakis is a participant in the current debates on the global and European crisis, the author of ''The Global Minotaur'' and several academic texts on economics and game theory, Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Athens and a private consultant for Valve Corporation. He is a dual Greek-Australian citizen and describes himself as a 'libertarian Marxist': "In truth, Karl Marx was responsible for framing my perspective of the world we live in, from my childhood to this day. It is not something that I volunteer to talk about in 'polite society' much these days because the very mention of the M-word switches audiences off."〔 ==Early life and education== Varoufakis was born in Palaio Faliro, Athens, on 24 March 1961, to George and Eleni Varoufakis. Varoufakis's father, George Varoufakis, emigrated from Cairo to Greece in the 1940s, arriving in the midst of the Greek Civil War. On 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.〔〔 Varoufakis’s mother, also a student at the University of Athens School of Chemistry at the time she met George, abandoned her conservative background〔 after meeting her husband who was, at the time, allied to United Democratic Left (EDA). In the mid 1970s Eleni Varoufaki became an activist for the Women’s Union of Greece, which promoted gender equality and had been set up by members of PASOK.〔 By the early 1980s, the couple had converged politicallly to the same political centre-left ground and engaged with the socialist PASOK.〔 Eleni was elected Deputy Mayor of Palaio Faliro a few years before she passed away in 2008. Varoufakis was six years old when the military coup d'état of April 1967 took place. Varoufakis later said that the military junta showed him a "sense of what it means to be both unfree and, at once, convinced () that the possibilities for progress and improvement are endless". The junta collapsed when Varoufakis was in junior high school. Attending the private Moraitis School, Varoufakis decided early to spell his first name with one 'n', rather than the standard two, for "aesthetic" reasons. When his teacher gave him a low mark for that, he became angry and has continued spelling his first name with one 'n' ever since. Varoufakis finished his secondary education around 1976, when his parents deemed it too dangerous for him to continue his education in Greece. Therefore, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1978 where he joined the University of Essex. His "initial urge was to study physics" but he decided that "the lingua franca of political discourse was economics". He therefore enrolled in the economics course at Essex, but it has also been suggested that he decided to enroll in economics after meeting Andreas Papandreou. After only a few weeks of lectures, decided the course was too poor, and switched his degree to mathematics.〔 Whilst at the University of Essex he joined a variety of political organisations including ComSoc (the University' Communist Society) and the Troops Out Movement, which campaigned for a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. He also became involved with the African National Congress, Palestine Liberation Organization, and other organisations such as those in solidarity with Chile. Varoufakis was also elected as secretary of the Black Students Alliance, a choice that caused some controversy (given that he is not black) to which he responded by telling them, according to his PhD supervisor Monojit Chatterjee, "that black was a political term and, as a Greek, on the grounds of ethnicity he had as much reason to be there as anyone else." Varoufakis also took part in student debates, where one of his rivals was John Bercow, who later became the Speaker of the House of Commons.〔 He moved to the University of Birmingham in October 1981, obtaining a MSc in mathematical statistics in October 1982. He completed his PhD in economics back at the University of Essex, where his PhD supervisor was Monojit Chatterjee. He completed his PhD in 1987. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yanis Varoufakis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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