CARL BILDT

Former Prime Minister,
Sweden

With an extensive background in politics in Sweden, Carl Bildt is today focused on different aspects of international policy and business.

In Sweden, he served as Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2001, Chairman of the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999 and Prime Minister from 1991 to 1994. His government negotiated and signed the 1995 Swedish accession to the European Union, and undertook far-reaching liberalization and structural reforms to improve the competitiveness of Sweden and to modernize its old-style welfare system.

In international affairs, he has been particularly active on the different Balkan issues. He served as European Union Special Representative to Former Yugoslavia as well as the first High Representative in Bosnia between1995 and 1997, and then as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Balkans between 1999 and 2001.

In the United States, he serves as the only non-US member of the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation (www.rand.org). In the field of international public policy, he serves on the Board of the Centre for European Reform (www.cer.org.uk) as well as the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (www.iiss.org) in London. He is on the Editorial Board of the magazine Russia in Global Affairs (www.globalaffairs.ru) in Moscow, and member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org)in New York. He is also on the boards of Aspen Institute Italia (www.aspeninstitute.it)in Rome and the Fundacion Euroamerica (www.euroamerica.org)in Madrid.

Apart from numerous other awards, he has an honorary degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he is a Fellow at its renowned Institute for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence.