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Oana Bogdan (Sighișoara, December 9, 1977) is an architect with Belgian and Romanian nationality. Together with Leo Van Broeck, she founded the architectural firm Bogdan & Van Broeck.

Biography and education
Her mother was a French teacher and her father an engineer. She has two sisters. She took piano lessons for eight years.

Oana Bogdan studied architecture and urban planning at Ion Mincu University in Bucharest. In 1999, she came to Belgium on an Erasmus scholarship, where she studied architecture at KU Leuven. She eventually graduated in Belgium. Between 2013 and 2015, she earned an MBA degree from the University of Antwerp, and she is now a graduate of the University of Antwerp.

Career
Bogdan worked at VBM architect in Leuven. In 2007, she founded the architectural firm BOGDAN & VAN BROECK together with Leo Van Broeck. She oversees the overall strategy of the practice and is closely involved in the creation of their designs.

She taught architecture and urban planning at the KU Leuven for many years. Oana Bogdan was a member of the jury of the Flemish Culture Prize in 2007, of the "Unesco Experts Committee" of the City of Bruges, of the Advisory Committee for Architecture and Design of the Flemish Government and of the Royal Committee for Monuments and Landscapes of the Flemish Region. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the cultural platform A+ Architecture in Belgium.

In addition, she was interim State Secretary for Culture in the Romanian Government in 2016, where, among other things, she drafted a new legislative code for cultural heritage and historically protected the Roșia Montană area.

Bogdan co-founded the Romanian political party PLUS in 2018.

Jury's (selection)
Oana was member of several jury's of architecture prizes and awards:


 * 2017, Nordic Architecture Fair Award
 * 2021, Rotterdam Architecture Prize (president)

Awards and nominations
Oana Bogdan won Europan 7 in 2004 and the Bucharest Architecture Biennale in 2010, and has been nominated twice for the Mies van der Rohe Award.

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