Carl Bildt | |
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Carl Bildt during the celebrations of the National Day of Sweden at Skansen in , 6 June 2009.
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28th Prime Minister of Sweden | |
In office 4 October 1991 – 7 October 1994 |
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Monarch | Carl XVI Gustaf |
Deputy | Bengt Westerberg |
Preceded by | Ingvar Carlsson |
Succeeded by | Ingvar Carlsson |
Minister for Foreign Affairs | |
In office 6 October 2006 – 3 October 2014 |
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Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Preceded by | Jan Eliasson |
Succeeded by | Margot Wallström |
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
In office 14 December 1995 – 18 June 1997 |
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Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Carlos Westendorp |
Leader of the Moderate Party | |
In office 23 August 1986 – 4 September 1999 |
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Preceded by | Ulf Adelsohn |
Succeeded by | Bo Lundgren |
Personal details | |
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Nils Daniel Carl Bildt 15 July 1949 Halmstad, Sweden |
Political party | Moderate Party |
Spouse(s) | Kerstin Zetterberg (1974–1975) Mia Bohman (1984–1997) Anna Corazza (1998–present) |
Children | 3 |
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Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He was the leader of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999. Bildt served as Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs from October 2006 to October 2014.
He 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.
Bildt was born on 15 July 1949 in Halmstad, Halland, to an old Norwegian-Danish-Swedish noble family traditionally domiciled in Bohus county.
Bildt's father Daniel Bildt (1920–2010) was a former major in the reserves of the now defunct Halland Regiment and a former bureau director in the now defunct Civil Defense Board's Education Bureau. Daniel Bildt married Kerstin Andersson-Alwå in 1947. Carl Bildt's brother, Nils, was born in 1952. Bildt was married to Kerstin Zetterberg from 1974–75; to Mia Bohman (daughter of former Moderate party leader and Minister of Economy, Gösta Bohman) from 1984–97; and, since 1998, to Anna Maria Corazza. Bildt has three children; two from his second marriage and one from his third marriage.