Finn Bergstrand

Career Bergstrand served as a clerk in the Committee on the Constitution from 1960 to 1961, and then joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as an attaché from 1961 to 1966. During this period, he was posted to Washington, D.C. (1962–1964) and Beirut (1964–1966). He later worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm from 1966 to 1967, before becoming International Secretary of the Swedish Parliament from 1967 to 1971.

From 1971 to 1975, he served at the Swedish embassy in Canberra. He also worked on a possible sale of Swedish Saab Viggen fighter aircraft to Australia, intended to replace the country's French-made Dassault Mirage jets, at a time when the newly elected Labor government's relations with France were strained because of French nuclear weapons testing near Australia.

Bergstrand served at Sweden's delegation to the OECD in Paris from 1975 to 1980, In 1983, he was appointed ambassador-at-large for the countries in and around the Indian Ocean, while remaining based at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. Between 1983 and 1986, he served as ambassador to Aden, Antananarivo, Mogadishu, Moroni, Victoria. During the South Yemeni crisis in January 1986, Bergstrand was in Aden and was evacuated aboard the British royal yacht .

He served as director (departementsråd) from 1986 to 1989 He was ambassador to Singapore from 1989 to 1995, with concurrent accreditation to Bandar Seri Begawan. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as an Asia consultant at Lund University.

He was a member of the SHT Society and the in Lund.

Under the pseudonym "Måns Ripa," Bergstrand wrote around fifteen detective novels. He also authored several books under his own name.