Carl Bildt
Swedish politician
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- 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 and as Leader the Moderate Party (M) from 1986 to 1999.
- He was Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality from 1979 to 2001.
- From 1999 to 2001, he served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Balkans.
- Early life and education Bildt was born on 15 July 1949 in Halmstad, Halland, to an old Danish-Norwegian-Swedish noble family, the Bildt family, traditionally domiciled in Bohuslän.
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 and as Leader the Moderate Party (M) from 1986 to 1999. He later served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Reinfeldt cabinet from 2006 to 2014. He was Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality from 1979 to 2001. A member of the noble Bildt family, he is a great-great grandson of former prime minister Gillis Bildt.
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).
Early life and education
Bildt was born on 15 July 1949 in Halmstad, Halland, to an old Danish-Norwegian-Swedish noble family, the Bildt family, traditionally domiciled in Bohuslän. His grandfather's grandfather, Gillis Bildt, was a Conservative politician and diplomat, long-time Ambassador to the German Empire and Prime Minister of Sweden 1888–1889, mainly remembered for his protectionist trade policies.
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