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Bengt Carl Gustaf Westerberg (born 23 August 1943, in Södertälje, Stockholm County), Sweden. He is the son of Carl-Erik Westerberg and his wife Barbro (maiden name Wahlström). He graduated high school in 1962, finished an associate degree in medicine at Karolinska Institute in 1962 and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Philosophy at Stockholm University in 1974.

He was a Swedish politician, the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1983 to 1995. He served as Minister for Social Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister during the four-party centre-right Swedish government 1991–1994.

He currently holds office as the Deputy President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva, Switzerland as well as being the chairman of the Swedish Red Cross.

Westerberg is a self-described atheist and Humanist.^[1]

He is divorced twice, with two daughters, Hanna Nordh (maiden name Westerberg) and Malin Westerberg from the first marriage and a son, Jacob Westerberg, from his last marriage with Marie Ehrling.

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1. ^ (Swedish) ""Bengt Westerberg: Humanistisk ledning av Röda Korset"". Humanisten. http://www.humanisten.se/lasartikel.php?id=45. Retrieved 2007-08-18. 

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