Anna Maria Corazza Bildt

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt ( born March 10, 1963 in Rome) is a Swedish- Italian politician ( the Moderate ), entrepreneur and former diplomat. Since the European elections of 2009, she is a member of the European Parliament. She was married in 1998 to the former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, with whom she has a child.

Life

Diplomatic career

Corazza Bildt studied political science at the University La Sapienza in Rome and did postgraduate studies in conflict resolution at the University of San Diego and strategy at Columbia University in New York.

After her studies she worked at UNESCO in Paris and began in 1988 as an expert on development issues at the Italian Foreign Ministry to work. 1989 was transferred to the Permanent Mission of Italy to the OECD in Paris, where she was responsible for negotiations with the World Bank.

1991 could be Corazza Bildt seconded to the Secretariat of the United Nations in Geneva, where she worked for the competent Human Rights Deputy Secretary General, Sweden January Mårtensson. From 1992 to 1998, she worked with different orders for the United Nations in Yugoslavia. This included work with UNPROFOR in Croatia and the deployment of the United Nations office in Sarajevo in the period in which the city was besieged. During this time in Yugoslavia Corazza Bildt also met her future husband Carl Bildt know who was from 1995 to 1997 High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Later it was 2001-2003 again on behalf of the European Commission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Beginning of the political activities

After her marriage with Carl Bildt Corazza Bildt began to engage in the Swedish Moderate Conservative Party, Erna, whose chairman, Carl Bildt, was until 1999. Since 2003 she is a board spokeswoman for the party. In 2003, she was involved in the ultimately unsuccessful referendum on the introduction of the euro in Sweden. In 2006, she signed the call Bevara äktenskapet ( "Save the Marriage "), an ultimately unsuccessful campaign also against the introduction of same-sex marriage in Sweden.

Addition was Corazza Bildt 2003-2008 Board spokeswoman for the Swedish Red Cross.

As a businesswoman

In 2000, Corazza Bildt founded the family Italian tradition, which sells Italian delicacies on the Internet. In 2006 she founded together with her brother running the hotel Relais de Charme Tabiano Castello. She is a board spokeswoman for the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Sweden.

Together with the Swedish journalist and writer Magdalena Ribbing wrote Corazza Bildt also a travel guide about the city of Parma.

Member of the European Parliament

In the European elections in Sweden in 2009 Corazza Bildt was elected to the European Parliament. She reached 14.3% of preferential votes on the list of the Moderate, the second best result after top candidate Hökmark.

In Parliament she joined the Christian Democrat - Conservative EPP Group, and is a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

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