Who is Yanis Varoufakis? Former Greek finance minister, husband of Danae Stratou and leather jacket fan
The University of Essex graduate burst onto the political scene in 2010 during Greece's bailout
YANIS Varoufakis is set to appear on the Question Time panel tonight.
The former politician is to joining host David Dimbleby on the BBC One show. Here's the lowdown on him.
Who is Yanis Varoufakis?
Yanis was born on March 24 1961 in Athens.
He attended Moraitis private school which has educated several members of Greece's political and economic elite.
His dad is Giorgos Varouafakis, chairman of industrial giant Halyvourgiki.
But Yanis's privileged background did not prevent him from becoming a libertarian Marxist.
He graduated from University of Essex and taught there for a few years before moving to the University of East Anglia.
But he moved to Australia to teach economics at the University of Sydney after Margaret Thatcher's third election victory in 1987.
Yanis returned to Athens in 2000 following the "abhorrence of the conservative turn of the land Down Under".
He burst onto the political scene in 2010 during Greece's bailout.
The economist slammed the bailout, urging the government to opt for a default.
In 2012 he headed to the US to teach at the University of Texas in Austin.
He claims he was driven out by death threats for discussing the scandals of Greek banks and financial concerns.
In January 2015 Yanis was was appointed as Greece's finance minister and led negotiations with creditors during the country's debt crisis.
However, he failed to reach an agreement, triggering the 2015 Greek bailout referendum.
Yanis resigned the following day and was replaced by Eculid Tsakalotos.
He has since appeared in a string of debates, lectures and interviews.
The ex-minister appears to love a leather jacket.
He turned up to a crunch meeting at Downing Street with the then Chancellor George Osborne sporting one.
Fashion expert Alexander Fury said: "He looks more like a Greek Eurovision contestant than a Greek finance minister."
Who is Yanis's wife Danae Stratou?
Danae met Yanis shortly after his ex-wife and young daughter Xenia moved permanently to Australia in 2005, leaving him "in a state of shock".
The former Greek finance minister says she saved him from "oblivion".
Danae is said to have been the key to Pulp's hit single Common People, the Athens Voice reported in 2015.
Jarvis Cocker said he met a Greek girl at St Martins College who told him she "wanted to move to Hackney and live like 'the common people'".
But he never knew the mystery woman's identity as he wrote the top 10 hit in 1995.
Jarvis said: “I did meet this girl.
"She was at Saint Martin’s doing a different course.
"We were at a bar and she was going on about how she wanted to go and live in Hackney with the common people.
“And I thought, well, that’s a bit much.
"But I did fancy her, so I thought, am I going to let it go or shall I take her to task?
“That’s where the reality of the song finishes… I wanted to get off with this girl but she wasn’t interested at all.
"She never said that to me.”
Asked about the Greek report, Yanis told the BBC: "Well, I wouldn't have known her back then.
"But I do know that she was the only Greek student of sculpture at Saint Martins College at that time.
"And, from personal experience, she is a very fascinating person."
However, another Greek artist has claimed she was Cocker’s real inspiration.
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Katerina Kana studied at Saint Martins from 1990-93. In 2012, she said: “We spent an evening together, drinking and talking.
"He was amazing and suddenly in the conversation I told him, ‘I wanna live like common people’.
“That grew into something bigger than what happened that night. The song became the national anthem of an entire social order.”