Miranda Xafa

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Miranda Xafa (Greek: Μιράντα Ξαφά, pronounced [miˈranda ksaˈfa]) is a Greek economist, formerly Greece's representative at the IMF Executive Board and chief economic adviser to the Prime Minister of Greece, and currently CEO of an Athens-based advisory firm. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.[1]

Education

After graduating from the American College of Greece in 1974,[2] she enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania where she received a Master's and a Ph.D. in Economics.[3]

Career

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. In the period 2004–09, she served as a member of the board of the IMF in Washington D.C., representing countries such as Italy, Greece, and Portugal,[3] and subsequently worked as senior investment strategist and member of the advisory board of I.J. Partners in Geneva, Switzerland.[4]

She is currently CEO of an Athens-based advisory firm, and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.[1]

Academia

Xafa has taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton University. She has authored articles on international finance, the Latin American debt crisis, European monetary unification.[3] and sovereign debt restructuring. She is currently a senior scholar at the Center for International Governance Innovation, where she focuses on the Eurozone economy.[1]

Views

Xafa supports the austerity measures undertaken by various governments in Greece and the reform and financial assistance program agreed between Greece and the troika.[5] She is a supply sider.[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.[10] She has called on Greek governments to close down the Greek state's defense manufacturing industries because "they are operating at a financial loss."[11] In the 2010s, she joined the "free market", "pro-business" Drassi ("Action") party, serving on its executive committee.[12]

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