Diana Taylor

Diana Taylor is also known as the former “de facto First Lady of New York City” due to her domestic partner, Michael Bloomberg. They met in 2000 at a ‘Citizens Budget Commission’ event.

They have been together ever since. Thus, Taylor was called the “first unofficial First Lady of New York” during Bloomberg’s mayorship. She accompanied him to social functions and also campaigned with him.

At the time of his second inauguration, Taylor sat with his mother and daughters in the front row. The domestic partners live in Bloomberg's East 79th Street townhouse.

Diana Lancaster Taylor was born on February 6, 1955, in Greenwich, Connecticut, to Lois Johnston (O'Neill) and Edwin Douglas Taylor.

Her father was a biochemist with ‘Union Carbide,’ and her mother was a school teacher. Taylor initially attended ‘Milton Academy’ in Massachusetts.

She then joined ‘Dartmouth College’ to earn a BA degree in economics. After moving to New York, she earned an MBA degree from ‘Columbia Business School.’

Taylor moved to New York after graduating from ‘Dartmouth College.’ She soon started working with the ‘Department of Social Services.’

However, she was not satisfied with the job and knew that she wanted more from life. She decided to earn a degree in management and thus applied to ‘Columbia Business School.’

She joined a joint degree program that offered a degree in public health, too. She continued working nights and on weekends, while she attended the B-school during the day.

She worked at ‘St. Vincent’s Hospital’ in Brooklyn as an administrator.

After earning her MBA degree, Taylor bagged a full-time job in the public finance department of ‘Smith Barney.’ After working at the financial firm for a while, Taylor moved on to ‘Lehman Brothers,’ which was the fourth-largest investment bank in the US, before it filed for bankruptcy in 2008.

She then joined ‘Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette,’ another investment bank, founded by William H Donaldson. In 1996, Taylor earned an opportunity to work as an assistant secretary for the then-governor, George Pataki.

She decided to switch careers and moved to the public sector to work for the then-governor. However, after working for Pataki for a while, she moved on to other opportunities.

She worked for ‘Keyspan Energy,’ the fifth-largest distributor of natural gas in the US. She also worked as the chief financial officer at the ‘Long Island Power Authority.’

However, after working there for a brief period of time, she returned to work for Pataki, this time, as his deputy secretary. She continued working for him and was soon given the position of the governor’s chief advisor in the matters of finance and housing.