In February 2022, Oana Zaharia began working as general manager at the National Heritage Institute of Romania. She graduated from Bucharest’s Romanian American University with a degree in economics, specialising in managerial informatics. From 2017 until 2020, she worked as the general director of the Municipality of Bucharest’s Administration of Monuments and Tourist Heritage. During her mandate, she contributed to the protection, conservation, restoration and promotion of the statues in the administration. Moreover, she gave special importance to the promotion of cultural heritage and heritage education, through programs and impact projects at national and international level. Subsequently, she served as the President of the County Council of Constanta’s personal cultural advisor. Currently, she is a PhD student at the University of Arts of Bucharest. Starting September 2021, she has been working on the theme “Restoration of historic sites in Dobrogea between 1950 and 1977” under the supervision of vice-president of the Romanian Academy, Acad. Razvan Theodorescu.