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Even though she campaigns for her boyfriend, Diana Taylor doesn’t get stuck in Mike Bloomberg’s shadow. The Greenwich, Conn. native is a career woman through and through. In a September 2011 profile for the Observer, Taylor is described as “a tall, charismatic figure” whose “demeanor was warm but professional.” She’s held several high-profile jobs, including Superintendent of Banks for Governor Pataki in 2003 and managing director at Wolfensohn Fund Management in 2007.
For undergrad, Taylor attended Dartmouth (which she called “so much fun”) and got an MBA from Columbia University. Throughout her career, she’s had a go-with-the-flow attitude and told the Observer, “I’ve never really planned anything. I’ve basically seen opportunities as they come up and they’ve turned out to be really good ones.”
Being so busy is what keeps her relationship balanced. In that same profile, she said of Bloomberg, “He’s doing his thing and I have my life, too, and things that are important to me.” But unlike her boyfriend, Taylor opted out of politics, despite reportedly being approached by Republicans to run for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in 2010. She later told Harper’s Bazaar, “It wasn’t the right time. I want to make a difference, and how I’m doing that now is through the not-for-profit work.” She felt like if she was a “junior member of a minority party,” she wouldn’t be able to accomplish all she would’ve wanted.
Written by: Nicki
