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Pasi Sahlberg (Born October 26, 1959) is a Finnish educator, lecturer on Education and author.

Career
Pasi Sahlberg earned his Ph.D from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland in 1996. He was an invited speaker in Columbia University, George Washington University, Stanford University, University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University, and in Parliament Houses in the European Union, England, Scotland, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and more.

Sahlberg was a school teacher, educator of teachers, researcher, and adviser on education in Finland. His research involves education systems, and reforms of education. He served as the Director General of CIMO (Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation, a member of the Academic Cooperation Association) at the Finland Ministry of Education and Culture in Helsinki. He is currently (2016) a visiting Professor of Practice at Harvard University Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Sahlberg has given over 400 keynote speeches in conferences worldwide. He has worked in King's College London, the European Training Foundation in Turin, Italy, and the World Bank in Washington, D.C.. He was the adviser to more than 50 education systems around the world, among them: the Israeli Ministry of Education, and Seminar Hakibutzim College in Israel.

Sahlberg 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.

His book "Finnish Lessons 2.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland" won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award, was a best-seller in English, and was translated into six other languages. He received the 2012 Education Award in Finland, and 2014 Robert Owen Award in Scotland.

Books

 * Finnish Lessons 2.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland. Teachers College Press, 2014