Pasi Sahlberg is a Finnish educator, thought-leader and author who has worked as schoolteacher, teacher educator, researcher, and policy advisor in Finland and has, advised education system leaders around the world. He has worked as senior education specialist at the World Bank (in Washington, DC), a lead education expert at the European Training Foundation (in Torino, Italy), a director general at the Finland’s Ministry of Education (in Helsinki, Finland), and a visiting Professor at Harvard University. His most recent books are “Let the Children Play: How more play will save our schools and help children thrive” (2019), and ”In Teachers We Trust: The Finnish way to world-class schools” (2021). He is a professor of education at Southern Cross University in Lismore.