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Klas Bergman

Klas Bergman is a Swedish-American journalist and author, published in both Sweden and the United States. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1942, Bergman has spent most of his life outside of Sweden, mainly in the United States. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Bergman first came to the United States, in 1960, as a foreign exchange student at Santa Monica High School in California. That year was followed by four years at Stanford University (1), graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. From 1965 to 1967, he studied political science at Stockholm University, and in 1982, he returned to Stanford as a Professional Journalism Fellow, now called John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships (2). During his journalistic career, Bergman has reported from Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and North- and Central America for both Scandinavian and American newsorganizations. It includes twenty years, 1969-1989, at Dagens Nyheter (3), a leading Swedish daily, where he was a political reporter, foreign news editor, and a foreign correspondent, first in Belgrade in former Yugoslavia, then in Rome, Italy, and between 1983 and 1989 in Washington, DC. He left Dagens Nyheter in 1989 to serve as East European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor (4), based in Warsaw, Poland, and then as foreign policy reporter for Christian Science Monitor Television, based in Washington, DC.

Starting in 1992, Bergman’s career has included a series of positions in international public relations/public affairs, first as press counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Bonn, Germany. In subsequent years, he has served as chief of media relations at the World Bank (5) and communications director at the United Nations Volunteers (6), Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (7), Yale Law School (8), and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCEPA) (9).

Bergman is the author of four books. They include Tredje bordet från höger, about politics and daily life in communist Eastern Europe, published in Sweden in 1981; Amerika – drömmarnas land, a personal and political retrospective about his years in the United States, published in Sweden in 2012 and followed by an updated English version the next year, entitled Land of Dreams: A Reporter’s Journey from Sweden to America. In 2017, Scandinavians in the State House: How Nordic Immigrants Shaped Minnesota Politics, was published by Minnesota Historical Society Press.

Bibliography Klas Bergman (1981). Tredje bordet från höger: Över gränser i Östeuropa. Stockholm: Liber Förlag (10) LIBRIS 7260373 Klas Bergman (2012). Amerika—drömmarnas land. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag (11) LIBRIS 12747332. Klas Bergman (2013). Land of Dreams: A Reporter's Journey from Sweden to America. http://www.amazon.com/ (12) Klas Bergman (2017). Scandinavians in the State House -- How Nordic Immigrants Shaped Minnesota Politics. Minnesota Historical Society Press (13) ISBN 9781681340302.

References 1.	Stanford University 2.	John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships [] 3.	Dagens Nyheter www.dn.se 4.	Christian Science Monitor www.csmonitor.com 5.	The World Bank www.worldbank.org 6.	United Nations Volunteers www.unv.org 7.	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies https://fsi.stanford.edu 8.	Yale Law School https://law.yale.edu 9.	Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCEPA) 10.	Liber Förlag 11.	Carlsson Bokförlag 12.	Amazon.com 13.	Minnesota Historical Society Press

External links Klas Bergman’s blog, Notes on America, can be found at He can also be found on Facebook and LinkedIn.