Executive Vice President and General Counsel
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Sara E. Moss is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Estée Lauder Companies. She is responsible for the worldwide legal activities of the Company and its subsidiaries, including Board of Directors, corporate governance, acquisitions, U.S. and global filings, government relations, intellectual property, licensing, litigation and global security. She serves on the Company’s Investment Development Committee, Fiduciary Investment Committee, Executive Leadership Committee, Program Management Team, Diversity Committee and is Chair of the Company’s Ethics and Compliance Committee.

Before joining The Estée Lauder Companies in 2003, Ms. Moss held the position of Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Pitney Bowes Inc., which she joined in 1996. Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Ms. Moss was a senior litigation partner at Howard, Smith & Levin (now Covington & Burling), a New York City-based law firm. From 1978 to 1981, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division in the Southern District of New York, where she prosecuted a wide range of federal cases. Prior to that, she practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell and was a law clerk for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of New York. Ms. Moss is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts and New York University Law School.

Ms. Moss has received the Anti-Defamation League Human Relations Award, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund “Aiming High” Award, the Minority Corporate Counsel Diversity Award and the Pro Bono Partnership Outstanding Contribution Award. She serves on the Board of Trustees of NYU Law School, the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society and the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association. Ms. Moss has served on the Second Circuit Judicial Conference Committee, the Board of Trustees of the Federal Bar Council, and the mediation panel for the Southern District of New York. She has taught trial advocacy at Harvard Law School and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Since 2002 she has participated in Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business forum.

She has four children and lives in New York City.