[2] In December 2023, she obtained Moldovan citizenship and was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Moldova.

She obtained an MA degree in public administration from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest in 2007 and a PhD in economics from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies in 2010.

[5] Between 1996 and 2001, Dragu was an economist for the National Bank of Romania before working for the International Monetary Fund in Bucharest.

In 2013, she became an economist in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission before becoming the European Investment Bank Governor for Romania as well as Minister of Public Finance of Romania in November 2015 as a technocrat,[6][7] a position she held until January 2017.

Dragu was sworn in as a Moldovan citizen on 21 December 2023 before she was appointed as Governor of the National Bank of Moldova next day for a term of seven years.