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
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
