Pasi Sahlberg—Research Principal

Pasi Sahlberg is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at UNSW Business School. He is a Finnish educator and author who has worked as a schoolteacher, teacher educator, researcher, and policymaker in Finland and has advised national education reforms around the world. Pasi has held senior education expert posts in World Bank and European Commission, and leadership positions in the Finnish Government. His research interests include whole-system educational change, international education policies, equity in education, and learning through play. Pasi is an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki and the University of Oulu. His recent books are Let the Children Play! Why more play will save our schools and help children thrive (with William Doyle, 2019), In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish way to world-class schools (with Tim Walker, 2021) and Finnish Lessons 3.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland (2021).