Pasi Sahlberg is a Finnish Educator, Scholar and a Visiting professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

He has had a long career in Education holding various expert and leadership capacities in Finland, including policies and reforms that are associated to Finland’s successful education system.

He has served the World Bank in Washington, DC, the European Commission in Italy and acted as an external expert to the OECD advising governments in more than 50 countries.

Pasi is a former Director General at the Finland’s Ministry of Education and a Visiting professor of Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also chairs the Open Society Foundation’s Education Board and is a member of the Governing board of the University of Oulu, the Centre on International Education Benchmarking and the International Council of Education Advisors (ICEA) for the Scottish Government.

Education

Pasi studied at University of Jyväskylä, University of Helsinki and University of Turku, and curretly holds his Ph.D in Education.

FinnishED Leadership: Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education (Corwin Impact Leadership Series) (2017) [4]

Empowered Educators in Finland (2017) [4]

Hard Questions on Global Educational Change (2016) [4]

Finnish Lessons 2.0 What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? (2014) [4]

2013 Grawemeyer Award

2012 Education Award in Finland

2014 Robert Owen Award in Scotland

2016 Lego Prize

2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident Fellowship