Ms Borislava Woodford is a Policy Analyst at the New European Bauhaus Initiative Team run under the auspices of the President of the European Commission Mrs Ursula von der Leyen.
She has over 12 years of experience in the field of EU structural and investment funds in several different units of the EU Commission’s Directorate for Regional and Urban Development, focusing on working with local and regional authorities on EU funds project management and financial instruments engineering.
Previously, Borislava had a short stint in the Cabinet of Corina Cretu, former Commissioner for regional policy and was part of the team negotiating the European Regional Development Fund Regulation for 2021-2027 in the European Council and Parliament.
That builds on her previous experience of a decade in the private sector working for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young Consultants in London, Paris and Brussels in their Tax and Legal Departments.
A former member of the UK’s ‘’Association of Tax Technicians’, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Services and Spanish from London Metropolitan University and a Masters’ degree in European Integration and Development at University of VUB and Solvay Business School in Brussels.