American by birth and Swiss by marriage, Gail Mangold grew up in several countries. After completing a degree in art history in New York, she returned to Bern – the family home at the time – to do an internship at the Paul Klee Foundation. She went on to work in commercial art galleries and within a few years became a consultant director of the Koller auction firm in Zurich.

During this period she wrote regular columns – “Letter from Switzerland”, for a New York magazine, and arts coverage for the International Herald Tribune – and adapted books into English. Among these: Chinoiserie, Pablo Picasso’s Minotauromachy, and The Illustrated Books of Joan Miró.

After moving to Geneva in 1990, she worked with an international tourism organization (acquiring a certificate in heritage tourism strategy from George Washington University Business School in Washington D.C. along the way) and then as a company CEO before opening CFS Communication in 2000. 

Parallel to running her company she works as a journalist and writer, and is a member of the Geneva Writers’ Group and International PEN .