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Klas Bergman, born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1942, is a Swedish-American journalist and author.

Bergman has spent most of his journalistic career outside of Sweden, mainly in the United States, where he was also educated. After a year at Santa Monica High School in California, he spent four years at Stanford University graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. He returned to Stanford in 1982-83 as a Professional Journalism Fellow.

Klas Bergman has a long journalistic career, reporting for both Swedish and American news media. It started at Nerikes Allehanda in Örebro, Sweden, and via Swedish Radio and the Associated Press, he came to Dagens Nyheter, a leading Swedish daily, in 1968. During his 20 years at Dagens Nyheter, he was a political reporter, an assistant foreign news editor, and a foreign correspondent, first in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, then in Rome, Italy, and, between 1983 and 1989, in Washington, DC. He left Dagens Nyheter in 1989. That year, he went to work as the East European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor based in Warsaw, Poland. An assignment as foreign affairs reporter for Christian Science Monitor Television, based in Washington, DC, followed.

In 1992, Bergman was appointed press counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Bonn, Germany. In subsequent years, he has held numerous communications positions: chief of media relations at the World Bank as as communications director at the United Nations Volunteers, Stanford University, Yale University, and the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation).

Bergman lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he writes and blogs at Random notes on America. In April 2017, his book Scandinavians in the State House -- How Nordic Immigrants Shaped Minnesota Politics will be published.

It follows his 2012 book, published in Sweden, Amerika -- drömmarnas land -- personal and political retrospective on his years in the United States. An English edition followed in 2013 with the title Land of Dreams: A Reporter’s Journey from Sweden to America. His first book,Tredje bordet från höger, on politics and life in Eastern Europe between 1975 and 1980, came out in in Sweden in 1981.