Sawitri Saharso is holding a chair in Citizenship and Moral Diversity at University of Humanistic Studies and ia managing Director of the Graduate School, next to her position as associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the VU University Amsterdam., where she coordinates the research program Identity, Diversity and Inclusion. 
 
She studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam and defended her PhD thesis at the same University in 1992. In her PhD research she was interested in a possible shared identity and mutual solidarity developing among young people of different ethnic background growing up in multicultural Dutch society and in the ways education can enhance this process.

Sawitri Saharso is specialized in the area of migration and integration with a special focus on gender relations. She was visiting professor  ‘Democracy and Difference in Europe’ at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is editor-in-chief of Comparative Migration Studies  http://comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com/

Her current research focuses on the increased moral diversity in society related to migration and on the implications for central values and practices in (medical) health contexts.