Stefan Lafaire earned his doctorate with a dissertation on the historical poetry of the late Middle Ages and used his intercultural knowledge in the campaign for the European Central Bank at Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt am Main. There he specialized in contacts with America and the Middle East and wrote speeches for the Lord Mayor and other political leaders.

Lafaire then worked in private banking at Deutsche Bank and was loaned to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for a year as an expert in technology rating and intellectual capital reporting. He then became the chairman of Stiftung Stadtgedächtnis in Cologne. In recent years, he has advised Debeka. In addition, he has repeatedly given seminars at various universities on the connection between history and economics.