Mihaela Iacob is Associate Professor, Ph.D., and Vice-Dean for Scientific Research and Internationalization at the Faculty of Finance and Banking, the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. With a portfolio of disciplines featuring Public Finance, Prices and Competition, Budget and Public Treasury, and Public Financial Policies, she authored more than 50 scientific works, presented or published (inter)nationally. As well, she acquired extensive editorial experience, being coordinator of the OEconomica journal, while she also serves as expert at the Romanian Fiscal Council.