Georgette Mosbacher
Georgette Mosbacher (née Paulsin; January 16, 1947) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, political activist who served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 2018 to 2021. She is the chairman of the Green Beret Foundation advisory board, and a Fox News contributor. On November 19, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated her as a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. 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. After selling La Prairie in 1991 to Beiersdorf for a profit, in the 1990s she founded Georgette Mosbacher Enterprises, her own business and finance consulting company. From 2000 to 2015 she served as CEO of Borghese, a cosmetics manufacturer based in New York City. Mosbacher authored two motivational books for women in the 1990s: Feminine Force through Simon & Schuster and It Takes Money Honey through HarperCollins. Active in American politics, Mosbacher previously served as a co-chair of the Republican National Committee’s Finance Committee, and she was the first woman to serve as the general chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Mosbacher has been noted in the media