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Carl Bildt

Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations

Carl Bildt is co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, contributing columnist to The Washington Post, and 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. In 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.
Subjects:
Arms control, Authoritarianism, Brexit, China, Defence, Democracy, Disinformation, Eastern Partnership, Economy, Europe, European Union, Future, Mali, Maritime security, Middle East, NATO, Nordic-Baltic region, Populism, Russia, Security, Technology, Terrorism, Transatlantic relations, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, West
Updated: April 13, 2022

Agenda

What’s Past Is Prologue: The West and Russia
LMC 2023
Authoritarianism, China, Europe, NATO, Russia, Transatlantic relations, Ukraine, United States
A Friend in Me: Transatlantic Relations
LMC 2022
Lennart Meri Lecture
LMC 2021
Defence, Nordic-Baltic region, Russia, Security
Respice, Adspice, Prospice: Examine the Past, Examine the Present, Examine the Future
LMC 2021
Brexit, Democracy, Disinformation, Populism, Technology
Thinking the Unthinkable: Why Has Leadership Failed?
LMC 2018
Russia, West
Russia and the West: Crossroads or Dead End?
LMC 2018
11 more

Articles

Lennart Meri Lecture 2021

These days it’s thirty years since Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania regained their independence. It was a dramatic time. In retrospect, it all looks straightforward or even harmonious.

Carl Bildt
August 30, 2021

Talks

Jüri Luik and Carl Bildt
Arms control, China, Mali, Maritime security, NATO, Nordic-Baltic region, Russia, Security, Ukraine, United States
Cooperation in Deterrence in the Nordic-Baltic Region

As global power shifts, how can we ensure that Allies and partners remain committed to security at the West’s peripheries in the Baltic Sea region, and build effective deterrence against Russia? In this session of the Lennart Meri Conference Talks, Member of the Riigikogu (Estonian…

Carl Bildt ,  Jüri Luik
February 12, 2021

In the news

Zviedrijas ekspremjers Karls Bilts: NATO paplašināšanās stiprinās arī Latvijas drošību

LTV (Latvian Public Broadcasting), May 18, 2022

Carl Bildt: kuidas säilitada koostöö murenevas maailmas

Postimees, September 8, 2021

Carl Bildt: Lennart Meri Lecture 2021

ERR News (Estonian Public Broadcasting), September 7, 2021

I høy beredskap før russisk storøvelse

TV 2, September 5, 2021