Bertil Lintner (born 1953) is a Swedish journalist, author and strategic consultant who has been writing about Asia for nearly four decades.

He has published several books including, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Democracy, Blood Brothers: The Criminal Underworld of Asia, World.Wide.Web: Chinese Migration in the 21st Century—and How It will Change the World, and Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under The Kim Clan.

Even so, Lintner was the first foreign journalist to learn about Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in 1995.

Lintner lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand with his wife Hseng Noung, an ethnic Shan from Burma.

[3] They travelled by foot, jeep, bicycle, and elephant, among the rare handful of people to enter the isolated area, then controlled by various ethnic insurgents.