Carl Bildt - CV

Minister for Foreign Affairs

The Moderate Party

Personal

Born in 1949.
Married, three children.

Education

Higher education, Stockholm University
Upper secondary school, Östra Real, Stockholm

Political appointments

2006-
Minister for Foreign Affairs

1991-1994
Prime Minister

1992-1999
Chair of the International Democrat Union (IDU)

1986-1999
Party leader of the Moderate Party

1979-2001
Member of the Riksdag

1979-1981
State Secretary in the Cabinet Office Coordination Secretariat

1976-1978
Special Adviser for coordination functions in the Government

1973-1974
Chair of the Free Moderate Student League

Previous assignments
1999-2001
UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Balkans

1996-1997
The High Representative of the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina for reconstruction and the peace implementation process

1995-1997
The European Union's Special Representative for Former Yugoslavia 1995, Co-Chair of the Dayton Peace Talks on Former Yugoslavia

Adviser to the European Space Agency (ESA)

Adviser to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Member of the International Balkan Commission

Other

Former Member of the Board of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Former Member of the Board of the European Policy Centre, Brussels

Former Member of the Board of the Centre for European Reform, London

Former Member of the Board of the RAND Corporation, Washington and Santa Monica

Former Member of the Board of the Aspen Institute, Rome

Honorary degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland

Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St Andrews, Scotland