Carl Bildt is co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, contributing columnist to The Washington Post, and columnist for Project Syndicate. He is also senior adviser to Wallenberg Investments and serves on the board of trustees of the RAND Corporation.
Bildt is a former Swedish prime minister and foreign minister. In 2021, he was appointed World Health Organization special envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator). He subsequently served in international functions with the EU and UN, primarily in positions related to conflicts in the Balkans. He was co-chairman of the Dayton peace talks on Bosnia and became the first EU high representative in the country. He went on to become the special envoy of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the region.