Pasi Sahlberg (born October 26, 1959, in Oulu ) is a Finnish education expert, author and professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Previously, Sahlberg has worked as a professor of practice at Harvard University at the World Bank, and as the director of the Centre for International Mobility (CIMO) in Finland. His work Finnish Lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? won the Grawemeyer Award in 2013.
Sahlberg is a graduate of University of Helsinki in Teaching in 1986 and the University of Turku in Mathematics and Physics in 1985. He received his PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Jyväskylä in 1996 with a thesis titled Who would help a teacher â post-modern perspective on change in teaching in light of one school improvement project.
Sahlberg taught mathematics and physics for eight years in middle school and high school. His research investigates issues in educational reform, school improvement and education policy.