He is a professor in the Department of Political Science, and member of the Board of University of Gothenburg, Sweden[2] member of the Young Academy of Sweden, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Research Fellow at the Quality of Government Institute; and senior advisor for the Oslo Analytica.
In 1987-1988 Lindberg worked as a production manager for a series of industrial films, ads, TV shows, including Sunes Jul and drama productions which included working with Donya Feuer at Kulturhuset and Royal National Theatre.
He has also spent two years in Ghana as parliamentary advisor, and consults on a regular basis for donors in Africa.
He also initiated and led the collaborative research project on democratization by elections between 2007-2009 involving more than 15 renowned scholars from universities in the US and Europe.
From 2006-2009 he was the co-PI of the international research consortium African Power and Politics program involving seven institutions across three continents with a budget of £3.5mn on behalf of the University of Florida.