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Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2014.
Born on 15 July 1949 in Halmstad, Halland County, he belongs to the noble Bildt family of Danish-Norwegian-Swedish origin; his great-great-grandfather, Baron Gillis Bildt, was Prime Minister of Sweden in the late nineteenth century.
He is the son of Daniel Bildt, a civil defence official and army reserve officer, and Kerstin Andersson-Alwå.