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Lili Bosse
Official portrait, 2013
73rd, 76th, and 82nd Mayor of Beverly Hills
In office
April 5, 2022 (2022-04-05) – April 4, 2023 (2023-04-04)
Preceded byRobert Wunderlich
In office
March 28, 2017 (2017-03-28) – March 20, 2018 (2018-03-20)
Preceded byJohn A. Mirisch
Succeeded byJulian Gold
In office
March 25, 2014 (2014-03-25) – March 24, 2015 (2015-03-24)
Preceded byJohn A. Mirisch
Succeeded byJulian Gold
Personal details
Born
Lili Toren

(1961-10-06) October 6, 1961 (age 63)
NationalityAmerican
SpouseJon Bosse
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
ProfessionPolitician, philanthropist

Lili Bosse (née Toren; born October 6, 1961) is an American politician, who formerly served as the Mayor of Beverly Hills, California. She has served non-consecutive terms as the mayor of the city from March 2014 to March 2015, from March 2017 to March 2018, and from April 2022 to April 2023.

Early life

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Bosse was born October 6, 1961[1] in Rego Park, Queens, New York City. At age nine, her family moved to Beverly Hills.[2][3][4] She is the only child of Holocaust survivors[4][5][6] who had met in Israel shortly after World War II and immigrated to the United States.[7][8] Her father, Jack Toren, died in 1993.[9] Her mother, Rosalia (Orenstein) Toren, was born in Poland.

Rosalia wrote two books about her experiences after escaping from the Auschwitz concentration camp: Destiny in 1991 and A New Beginning in 1997. Her mother died in February 2015.[9][7][10]

Bosse is a graduate of the University of Southern California.[3][4][11]

Political career

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Bosse served on the Beverly Hills Traffic and Parking Commission from 1997 to 2002, and on the Beverly Hills Planning Commission from 2007 to 2011.[3][4][11] She was elected to a four-year term on the five-member Beverly Hills City Council in 2011.[3][11][12] She was appointed by the City Council to serve a one-year term as vice mayor in 2013, and then for a succeeding one-year term as mayor in 2014.[12][13][14]

Bosse was sworn in as mayor by actor Sidney Poitier in a ceremony at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 25, 2014.[14] Poitier had also sworn her in as vice mayor in 2013.[13] One of her first actions as Mayor was to announce a "Healthy City Initiative", which aimed to make Beverly Hills "the healthiest city in the world".[14]

In early May of 2014, Bosse approved a resolution by the Beverly Hills City Council to urge the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, to sell the Beverly Hills Hotel after he had passed legislation in Brunei to impose Islamic Sharia law there.[15][16][17] Bosse proclaimed she had made a "personal decision" not to visit the hotel until the situation had been resolved.[15][18]

From May 25 to June 3, 2014, Bosse visited China as part of a mayoral delegation trip.[19] She met officials in Beijing, Wuhan, Hongan, Guangzhou, and Jieyang to promote trade between China and Beverly Hills, especially its luxury industry.[19]

In March of 2017, Bosse began her second term as the mayor of Beverly Hills.[20] She announced the renewal of her weekly "Walk With the Mayor" program and a new partnership between the City of Beverly Hills and author Deepak Chopra.[20] In August of 2017, Bosse introduced Beverly Hills Open Later Days (BOLD) which encouraged local businesses to stay open later into the evening,[2][21] especially on Rodeo Drive.[22]

Bosse was reelected mayor of Beverly Hills in April 2022.[23] She announced the launch of a Real Time Watch Center to surveille the city's residents and 'BHPD alert' which provides citizen activity information directly from the police department.[24]

In October of 2022, in response to the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, she led the Beverly Hills City Council in the adoption of a resolution calling on the Biden administration to increase sanctions against Iran, for the United Nations to expel Iran from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.[25]

In December of 2022, Bosse was invited to attend the second annual Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism in Athens, Greece. During the summit, she joined municipal leaders from 53 cities and 23 countries to sign a historic declaration committing to “fight antisemitism in all its manifestations” by cooperating in the areas of education, raising awareness and promoting interfaith relations.[26]

Philanthropy

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Bosse served as president of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation, from which she received the Spirit of Philanthropy Award.[3][4][11]

She is a donor to the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden.[27] She is a founding member of the Police And Community Together organization.[4] Bosse and her husband donated US$100,000 to the Moriah Films division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to honor her mother's 90th birthday in 2013. The name "Rose Orenstein Toren" will appear in the film credits of all documentaries subsequently produced by the center.[7] In 2013, she and her husband served on the Southern California Regional Council of Birthright Israel.[28]

Bosse is co-founder and serves on the executive board of Visionary Women, a nonprofit organization that promotes women in leadership positions.[29] She is a fellow of Vital Voices, a global women's leadership organization.[30]

Personal life

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Her husband, Jon Bosse, is the co-president and chief investment officer of NWQ, an affiliate of Nuveen Investments.[4][31] They have two sons, Andrew and Adam.[3][4] They reside in Beverly Hills, California.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Lili Bosse".
  2. ^ a b Velten, Elspeth (January 22, 2018). "In the World's Most Famous ZIP Code, Don't Settle for Just Any Tour Guide". Vogue. Retrieved January 23, 2018. Lili Bosse grew up in the Rego Park section of Queens, New York, until the age of 9, when her family moved west to Beverly Hills.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Lili Bosse". www.beverlyhills.org.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Elect Lili Bosse: Biography". Archived from the original on July 7, 2014.
  5. ^ Michael Aushenker, L.A. Women's Circuit, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, October 4, 2001
  6. ^ 1939 Club, Holocaust commemorative: in memory of the six million, The Club, 1978, pp. 15; 112 [1]
  7. ^ a b c Lopez, Matt (April 12, 2013). "Beverly Hills Resident, Holocaust Survivor Rose Toren Turns 90" (PDF). Beverly Hills Courier. pp. 4, 7. Retrieved June 22, 2014.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Sommer, Ariane (May 25, 2014). "Die Bossin von Beverly Hills". Welt am Sonntag; Berlin [Berlin] (in German). p. 13 – via ProQuest.
  9. ^ a b Al Martinez, Her Name Is Rose, The Los Angeles Times, February 4, 1995
  10. ^ Auschwitz Survivor Rose Toren Passed Away Today, The Beverly Hills Courier
  11. ^ a b c d Meet the Mayors: Lili Bosse of Beverly Hills, LA Tech Digest
  12. ^ a b "About the City Council". City of Beverly Hills. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
  13. ^ a b Lopez, Matt (March 29, 2013). "Antonovich, Poitier, Pregerson, Yaroslavsky Swear In Beverly Hills City Councilmembers" (PDF). pp. 1, 3. Retrieved June 22, 2014.[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ a b c New Mayor Lili Bosse Wants Beverly Hills to be the Healthiest City in the World Archived June 26, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Beverly Hills Courier, March 26, 2014
  15. ^ a b Ted Johnson, City Council Passes Resolution Urging Brunei to Sell Beverly Hills Hotel, Variety, May 6, 2014
  16. ^ Michael Cieply, Hotel Boycott Grows Over Brunei Penal Code, The New York Times, May 5, 2014
  17. ^ Reuters, Beverly Hills Confronts Brunei Over Sharia Law, Voice of America, May 7, 2014
  18. ^ Ben Child, Hollywood councillors ask sultan of Brunei to sell hotel over anti-gay stance, The Guardian, May 7, 2014
  19. ^ a b Victoria Talbot, Beverly Hills News – Mayor Traveling to China on Trade Mission Archived May 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Beverly Hills Courier, May 21, 2014
  20. ^ a b "Bosse Announces Beverly Hills Partnership With Deepak Chopra". The Beverly Hills Courier. March 28, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  21. ^ Halberg, Morgan (December 19, 2017). "Why Beverly Hills Is a Holiday Vacation Destination". The New York Observer; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. – via ProQuest.
  22. ^ Talbot, Victoria (March 31, 2017). "Who's the Bosse" (PDF). The Beverly Hills Courier. Vol. LI, no. 13. pp. 1, 19. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  23. ^ "Lili Bosse Elected As Mayor Of Beverly Hills". Canyon News. April 6, 2022.
  24. ^ "Bosse Delivers State of City Address to Record Crowd". beverlyhillscourier.com. September 29, 2022.
  25. ^ REYES-BENÍTEZ, OMAR (October 14, 2022). "City Council Denounces Iranian Government and Issues Resolution". Beverly Hills Courier. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  26. ^ "Bosse Signs Historic Declaration at Antisemitism Summit". Beverly Hills Courier. December 1, 2022.
  27. ^ "Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden - Supporters". Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden. Archived from the original on October 28, 2021. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  28. ^ "Birthright Israel: Annual Report, 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 13, 2015. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
  29. ^ "Lili Bosse | Leadership | Visionary Women". www.visionarywomen.com.
  30. ^ "Lili Bosse 2021 Fellow; Visionary Women". www.vitalvoices.org.
  31. ^ "NWQ: Jon D. Bosse". nuveen.com.
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