Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt

Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations

Carl Bildt is Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, contributing
columnist to Washington Post as well as columnist for Project Syndicate. He serves as
Senior Advisor to the Wallenberg Foundations in Sweden and is on the Board of
Trustees of the RAND Corporation in the US.


He has served as both Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden. March 2021, Mr
Carl Bildt was appointed WHO Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools
Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator).


Subsequently he served in international functions with the EU and UN, primarily related
to the conflicts in the Balkans. He was Co-Chairman of the Dayton peace talks on
Bosnia and become the first High Representative in the country. Later, he was the
Special Envoy of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the region