Geert ten Dam is Distinguished Research Professor of Citizenship Education at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. She was president of the Executive Board of the UvA from 2016 to 2024 and also a crown member of the Social Economic Council (SER). Until the end of 2014, Ten Dam was chair of the Education Council of the Netherlands, the independent advisory body to government and parliament in the field of education.