Pasi Sahlberg, Professor of Educational Policy at UNSW, is a Finnish educator, author, and scholar. He has worked as schoolteacher, teacher educator, researcher, and policy advisor in Finland and has studied education systems and reforms around the world. He has also served World Bank in Washington, DC; European Commission in Torino, Italy, and OECD as an external expert. His book “Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland” won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award. He is also recipient of The Lego Prize in 2016 and Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency in 2017. He is a former director general of CIMO at the Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture in Helsinki and a visiting Professor of Practice at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. He is currently chair of Open Society Foundations’ education advisory board and a member of the Governing Board of the University of Oulu. In 2018 he will take up the position of Professor of Education at UNSW, Sydney. Twitter: @pasi_sahlbeg.