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Pasi Sahlberg (Born October 26, 1959) is Finnish educator, author and scholar.

Biography
Pasi Sahlberg has worked as a school teacher, teachers educator, researcher and policy advisor in Finland. He has studied education systems and reforms around the world. His expertise includes school improvement, international education issues, classroom teaching and learning, and school leadership. He is a former 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, MA, USA.

Sahlberg is an international speaker and author who has given more than 400 keynote speeches and published over 100 articles, chapters and books on education. He has lived and worked in England (King's College London), the United States (World Bank in Washington, D.C.) and Italy (European Training Foundation in Torino) and worked with over 50 education systems around the world. He earned his Ph.D from the University of Jyväskylä (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.

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. He is also known as international school improvement activist for his direct links to practitioners and their communities.

Books

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