[3] Xafa started working for the International Monetary Fund in Washington in 1980, where she focused on economic stabilization programs in Latin America.
[4] Following the center-right New Democracy party win in the 1990 general elections in Greece, Xafa was appointed in 1991 chief economic advisor to prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis.
[3] Following the party's defeat in the 1993 legislative elections, Xafa worked as a financial-market analyst at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup in London, UK.
She has authored articles on international finance, the Latin American debt crisis, European monetary unification.
[6][7][8] She has publicly denounced the "magician's tricks" that ostensibly "beautified" Greece's state finances and economic ratios at the time of the country joining the Eurozone,[9] as well as any attempt at Grexit.