Background
Osher was born in Stockholm to a Swedish family, the second of four daughters of Ingrid (nee Julin) and Bo Klint. As her father was a military officer, she moved around Sweden from Stockholm to Linköping and then to Skövde.
Osher was born in Stockholm to a Swedish family, the second of four daughters of Ingrid (nee Julin) and Bo Klint. As her father was a military officer, she moved around Sweden from Stockholm to Linköping and then to Skövde.
He later became the head of the Göta Kanal Company and the family moved to Motala where Osher attended high school and then went on to Stockholm University. In 1964, she returned to Sweden and completed her studies graduating with a major in German and minors in English and Political Science from Stockholm University.
After graduation, she worked at a number of jobs: as specialty book editor for the Bonnier/Forum Publishing House. At then at several advertising companies, Svenska Telegrambyrån until 1975, Ekström & Lindmark, and then Hera. She then moved to the United States and worked for the Swedish Tourist Board as its United States representative for three years.
In 1983, she became the representative for the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences in the Western United States.
From 1995 to 1998 she served as the Consul General of Sweden in Los Los Angeles In 1991, Barbro Osher also became the owner and publisher of Vestkusten, a Swedish-American newspaper published in San Francisco since 1886.
In 2007 the newspaper was merged with the New York-based Nordstjernan, published since 1872. The money will be used for college scholarships, performing-arts programs, higher-education projects, and the support of three medical-education centers, established by earlier donations.
The medical-education centers all aim at integrating conventional and alternative approaches to medicine.
They are located at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, at Harvard Medical School, and at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In 2006, Barbro Osher was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Göteborg University.
