Carl Bildt (born 1949)
Born 1949 CE.
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 of the Moderate Party (M) from 1986 to 1999. He served twice as Leader of the Opposition (1986–1991 and 1994–1999). He later held office as Foreign Minister under Fredrik Reinfeldt, serving from 2006 to 2014. He represented Stockholm Municipality as a Member of the Riksdag from 1979 until 2001. As 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).
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