Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt
Carl Bildt in 2016
Prime Minister of Sweden
In office
4 October 1991 – 7 October 1994
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
DeputyBengt Westerberg
Preceded byIngvar Carlsson
Succeeded byIngvar Carlsson
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office
6 October 2006 – 3 October 2014
Prime MinisterFredrik Reinfeldt
Preceded byJan Eliasson
Succeeded byMargot Wallström
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
In office
14 December 1995 – 17 June 1997
CountrySweden
MonarchCarl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byCarlos Westendorp
Leader of the Moderate Party
In office
23 August 1986 – 4 September 1999
Preceded byUlf Adelsohn
Succeeded byBo Lundgren
Personal details
Born
Nils Daniel Carl Bildt

(1949-07-15) 15 July 1949 (age 74)
Halmstad, Halland, Sweden
Political partyModerate
Spouses
Kerstin Zetterberg
(m. 1974; div. 1975)
Mia Bohman
(m. 1984; div. 1997)
(m. 1998)
Children3
RelativesGillis Bildt (great-great grandfather)
Bildt family
Alma materStockholm University
Signature
Military service
AllegianceSweden Sweden
Branch/service Swedish Army

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He led the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, appearing at its lead candidate in four general elections, before his appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014. Bildt first entered the Riksdag in 1979, holding a seat until 2001. A member of the Bildt family, he is a great-great grandson of Baron Gillis Bildt, who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1888 to 1889.[1]

Bildt had been noted internationally as a mediator in the Yugoslav wars, serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997, immediately after the Bosnian War. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Balkans. Since 2021, Bildt also has been the World Health Organization's Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator).[2]

  1. ^ Elgán, Elisabeth; Scobbie, Irene (2015). Historical Dictionary Of Sweden. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781442250710. p. 42
  2. ^ Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, appointed WHO Special Envoy for the ACT-Accelerator World Health Organization (WHO), press release of March 31, 2021.

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