From January 2015 to July 2019, she served as Alternate Minister of Social Solidarity in the First and Second Tsipras Cabinets.

She has also been a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, The Bartlett, London and Barcelona Architecture School.

In interior design she remodeled the meeting room of the Bank of Greece's head office.

Together with Tasos Kourakis she was nominated for the post of education minister in Syriza's Shadow Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.

[4] After the January 2015 legislative election, Fotiou however was appointed Alternate Minister of Social Solidarity.