Born in 1949.
Married, three children.
Education: Higher education, Stockholm University
Upper secondary school, Östra Real, Stockholm.
Political appointments: 2006- Minister for Foreign Affairs; 1991-1994 Prime Minister; 1992-1999 Chair of the International Democrat Union (IDU); 1986-1999 Party leader of the Moderate Party; 1979-2001 Member of the Riksdag; 1979-1981 State Secretary in the Cabinet Office Coordination Secretariat; 1976-1978 Special Adviser for coordination functions in the Government; 1973-1974 Chair of the Free Moderate Student League
Previous assignments: 1999-2001 UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans; 1996-1997 The High Representative of the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina for reconstruction and the peace implementation process; 1995-1997 The European Union’s Special Representative for Former Yugoslavia 1995, Co-Chair of the Dayton Peace Talks on Former Yugoslavia; Adviser to the European Space Agency (ESA); Adviser to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); Member of the International Balkan Commission.
Other: Former Member of the Board of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London; Former Member of the Board of the European Policy Centre, Brussels; Former Member of the Board of the Centre for European Reform, London; Former Member of the Board of the RAND Corporation, Washington and Santa Monica; Former Member of the Board of the Aspen Institute, Rome; Honorary degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland; Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), University of St Andrews, Scotland.