Pasi Sahlberg is a Professor of Education Policy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is a Finnish educator who has worked as teacher, policy-maker and adviser to several governments around the world. He has held senior education expert posts at the World Bank in Washington, DC, at the European Commission, and at Finnish Government. Pasi is a recipient of Grawemeyer Award in the U.S. (2013), Robert Owen Award in Scotland (2014), Lego Prize in Denmark (2016), Rockefeller Foundation’s Academic Writing Residency in Bellagio, Italy (2017), and Dr Paul Brock Memorial Medal in Australia (2021). His recent books are Let the Children Play, In Teachers We Trust, and Finnish Lessons 3.0. Pasi was a visiting professor at Harvard University in 2014-2016 and holds adjunct professorships at the University of Helsinki and the University of Oulu in Finland.