BIO

CARL BILDT
Former Prime Minister of Sweden & Former Chair of the Global
Commission on Internet Governance
World Health Organization Special Envoy for ACT-Accelerator
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.