Mireille Guiliano (Meer-ray Julie-ano) is a French-American internationally best-selling author, a painter, and was a spokesperson for Champagne Veuve Clicquot and former President and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. (LVMH). Recognized as “an ambassador of France and its art of living,” by the French daily Le Figaro, USA Today further dubbed her “the high priestess of French lady wisdom.”
Her first book, French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure became a runaway best seller around the world, hitting the top of the best seller charts in many countries, including the USA, where it was number 1 on The New York Times Bestseller list. It has been translated into 39 languages. It continues to sell in editions around the world and as an audiobook decades after it first appeared. She followed it up with another best-seller, French Women for all Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes and Pleasure, and then with, French Women Don’t Get Facelifts: The Secret of Aging with Style & Attitude, which also rose to the best-seller list, offering an encouraging take on beauty and aging for our times. In her sixth book, Meet Paris Oyster: A Love Affair with the Perfect Food, she serves up a memorable look at the French appetite for oysters and the characters who harvest and serve them.
She hit the pause button on books to channel her creative energies into painting, which she has done nearly full time for over a decade, producing hundreds of canvases, some of which are part of private collections in France and the USA and have been showcased in various venues. Her work is the subject of a solo exhibition in Paris from June 19 to June 28, 2025, at the Galerie Etienne de Causans. She has a long history of supporting philanthropic causes, including as the sponsor with her husband of the Guiliano Global Fellowships, which the exhibition benefits.
One of the few women who have reached the top echelon of the wine and spirits as well as luxury goods industry, Mireille has been called a champion of women in business and has worked with groups promoting business opportunities and education for women. She is credited with growing Champagne Veuve Clicquot’s top image, and under her leadership, Veuve Clicquot’s market share in America grew from less than one percent to more than 25 percent. Her casebook strategic approach to positioning and growing ultra-premium brands is often cited. She shares lessons learned along the business road in her third book, Women, Work and The Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense and Sensibility. Drawing from her experiences in the highest echelons of the business world, and through lively stories and helpful hints, she gives women (and a few men, peut-être) the practical advice they need to make the most of work without skimping on all the other good things in life. She has served on the Executive Committee of Moet-Hennessy at LVMH as well as on non-profit boards.
She has presented nationally and internationally on business topics, especially related to the luxury goods sector, as well as on wine, gastronomy and lifestyle. Mireille is the author of The French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook. She has been a frequent guest on radio and television in the USA and abroad.
A native of France, she grew up in Alsace-Lorraine and was educated in Paris, where she studied French and English literature at the Sorbonne and languages at the Institut Supérieur d’Interprétariat et de Traduction. Mireille holds the French equivalent of a master’s degree in English and German and certification as a translator/interpreter. She also has a command of Italian and several other languages.
She first arrived in America as an exchange student in Boston and returned to America early in her professional career. She currently “ages with style and attitude” with her husband, Edward, president emeritus of New York Institute of Technology, in New York City, Paris, and Provence.