Georgette Mosbacher (née Paulsin; January 16, 1947) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, and political activist who served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 2018 to 2021.
[3] Mosbacher started her career as an executive in 1987 when she purchased the struggling cosmetics firm La Prairie, outbidding companies such as Revlon, Avon, and Estee Lauder.
[4] After selling La Prairie in 1991 to Beiersdorf for a profit,[5] in the 1990s she founded Georgette Mosbacher Enterprises, her own business and finance consulting company.
[8] Mosbacher authored two motivational books for women in the 1990s: Feminine Force through Simon & Schuster[9] and It Takes Money Honey through HarperCollins.
[17] A fellow at the Foreign Policy Association,[11] she is a board-member for Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and the Atlantic Council,[1][11] among other organizations.
[4][15][23] Her father died in an automobile accident when she was young,[15] leaving the seven-year-old Georgette and her three younger siblings[24] under the care of their mother,[4] grandmother, and great-grandmother.
[11][28] Mosbacher published her first book,[24] the semi-autobiographical and women's motivational guide Feminine Force: Release the Power Within to Create the Life You Deserve, in 1993.
[12] Her second book, It Takes Money Honey: A Get-Smart Guide to Total Financial Freedom, was also partly focused on finances, and was released through HarperCollins in 1998.
[10] After working as a consultant to the company since 1999,[24] in 2000 Mosbacher was appointed chief executive officer of Borghese, a prominent cosmetics manufacturer based in New York City.
[15] Other American politicians she has fundraised for include Fred Thompson, Dick Lugar, Rudy Giuliani, Roy Blunt, Mitt Romney, and David Dreier.
[38] She also has appeared on Bravo Television series Southern Charm as Patricia Altschul's best friend, and partner in her customized dog caftan business.
[11] Mosbacher has been on the board of advisors for Diligence London, Harvard Center For Public Leadership, Gow & Partners LLC, Grupo Brasilinvest S.A., and Village Cares.
[42] In March 2015, Mosbacher was given the Founder's Award from Hedge Funds Care "in recognition of her efforts spearheading the Manhattan Children’s Advocacy Center.
She dove into an elevator, the door of which unexpectedly opened, rang the alarm and rode it to the ground floor; the gunman vanished with her jewelry and handbag.
[15] In 2017, she gave a brief video tour of her Fifth Avenue home, discussing her many distinguished guests at parties there, on the NBC television series Open House.