Pasi Sahlberg Bio

Pasi Sahlberg is Finnish educator, author and scholar. He is currently a visiting Professor of

Practice at Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, MA, USA. He has worked as school teacher, teacher educator, researcher and

policy advisor in Finland and has studied education systems and reforms around the world. His

expertise includes school improvement, international education issues, classroom teaching and learning, and school leadership. His best-seller book Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award. He is a former Director General of CIMO (Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation) at the Finlands Ministry of Education and Culture in Helsinki.

Pasi has lived and worked in England (Kings College), the United States (World Bank in Washington, DC) and Italy (European Training Foundation in Torino) and worked with over 50 education systems around the world.

He earned his PhD from the University of Jyvskyl (Finland) in 1996 and has been invited speaker in Stanford University, Columbia University, George Washington University, University of Chicago and Vanderbilt

University in the U.S. and Parliament Houses in England, Scotland, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and the European Union.

Pasi is a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundations (Education Support Program), the Center on International Education

Benchmarking (of the National Center for Education and the Economy) and Laureate of Kappa Delta Pi in the United States. He is Adjunct

Professor at the Universities of Helsinki and Oulu, and former Director General of CIMO (Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation) at the Finlands Ministry of Education and Culture in Helsinki. His book Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award and he received the 2012 Education Award in Finland and 2014 Robert Owen Award in Scotland.