Bringéus was born on 7 September 1954 in Lund Cathedral Parish [sv], Malmöhus County, Scania, Sweden.

[2] Bringéus did his military service at the Interpreting School [sv] and studied at the Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III between 1973 and 1974, after which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Stockholm University in 1976 and a bachelor's degree in law from Uppsala University in 1979.

[2] In 2002 Bringéus was appointed head of the Swedish delegation at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna, holding the post until 2007.

[4][6] From 2011, Bringéus was an ambassador for Arctic issues at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and from 2015 to 2016 was a special investigator of Sweden's defence and security policy collaborations.

[8][9][10] Bringéus was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 2000.