Editing Carl Bildt (section)

===Work in private sector===

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After leaving his position as leader of the Moderate Party in 1999, other than engaging in international issues, Bildt took positions in the private sector and positions with international [[think tanks]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bruegel.org/author/carl-bildt/|title=Carl Bildt {{!}} Bruegel|date=3 September 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-23}}</ref> His positions in think tanks included serving as the first non-US member on the Board of Trustees of the [[RAND Corporation]] in [[Santa Monica, California]], and on the Advisory Board of the [[Centre for European Reform]] in London. He was a member of the board of the European Policy Centre in [[Brussels]], the [[International Institute for Strategic Studies]] in London, and the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Affairs in New York.

Bildt served as non-executive director of the Baltimore-based US assets management company [[Legg Mason, Inc.]] He served as chairman of the board of [[Teleopti]] and chairman of the public affairs consultancy [[Kreab]] AB, and board member of the IT consultancy HiQ AB. He was chairman of Nordic Venture Network, which brought Nordic high-tech VC firms together in an informal network.

In 2000, Bildt joined the [[Lundin Petroleum|Lundin Group]]'s board of directors, a company with oil interests in [[Ethiopia]] and [[Sudan]] – the seven years with the Lundin Group that followed made Bildt a wealthy man.<ref>[https://www.thelocal.se/20111222/38102 ''Lundin may have led Bildt to the heart of darkness''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819093517/https://www.thelocal.se/20111222/38102 |date=19 August 2017 }}. The Local, 22 December 2011</ref>

From March to November 2000, Bildt was part of an independent panel – together with [[Jean Peyrelevade]] and [[Lothar Späth]] – to advise the [[European Space Agency]]'s Director General [[Antonio Rodotà]] on the organization's future.<ref>[https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Report_of_the_Wise_Men_disclosed_in_Paris_today_Towards_a_Space_Agency_for_the_European_Union Report of the “Wise Men” disclosed in Paris today: Towards a Space Agency for the European Union] [[European Space Agency]], press release of November 09, 2000.</ref>

In 2002, Bildt joined the board of directors of [[Vostok Nafta]], a financial company primarily with holdings in [[Gazprom]].

He left his positions on all these boards upon becoming Foreign Minister in October 2006