Viktoria Dimitrova

BA Politics and French, 2017

Grants Officer at the European Climate Foundation in Brussels

Straight after graduation I worked for two years as the Project Development Lead at a small London-based international women’s development organisation.

I needed Spanish and French to facilitate my communication with grantees from partner countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

I currently work as Grants Officer at the European Climate Foundation where the staff and grantees are from all over the world. The teams I work with are often francophone, and most colleagues of mine in the Brussels office speak Spanish as well.

A large number of the grantees with whom I communicate on daily basis have Spanish as their mother tongue and prefer it as a common language of communication. Hence, I use foreign languages in my day-to-day work, and I find it incredibly stimulating.