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Dr. Pasi Sahlberg is Director General of CIMO (in the Ministry of Education and Culture) in Helsinki, Finland.  He is also an educator, researcher and school improvement activist.  He has experience in educational reforms, training teachers and leaders, coaching schools to change and advising education policy-makers around the world.  Pasi has worked in schools, universities, state-level administration (Ministry of Education in Finland) and international development organisations (World Bank, OECD, European Union).  His main areas of interest are educational change, school improvement, cooperative learning, and global education policies.  He delivers several international keynote presentations each year and has published over 100 articles, chapters and books, among them "Educational change in Finland" (2010), “Rethinking accountability in a knowledge society” (2010), “Creativity and innovation through lifelong learning” (2009), "Should 'failing' students repeat the grade?" (2008); "The role of international organisations in fighting corruption in education" (2008), "Education Policies for raising student learning: The Finnish approach" (2007), "Education reform for raising economic competitiveness" (2006).  His forthcoming book is titled "Finnish lessons: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland?” Pasi earned PhD from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) in 1996 and he is Assistant Editor of Journal of Educational Change and Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Helsinki and Oulu.