Catherine Geissler
Secretary
General of International Union of Nutritional Science (IUNS)
Emerita
Professor of Human Nutrition, King’s College London
President of
Nutrition Society of the UK
Catherine
Geissler’s main research interests are in international public health
nutrition; energy metabolism and obesity; and iron metabolism. She spent her
early life in Edinburgh, Scotland from birth to graduation in Dental Surgery,
and gained the PhD in Human Nutrition from Berkeley. She became Head of
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics and Head of the Division of Health
Sciences, and was Director of the National Higher Education Academy Subject
Centre for Health Sciences and Practice 2000-2011.
She has served on
many professional committees including the Ministry of Agriculture,, the World
Cancer Research Fund grants committee, and the British and American Nutrition
Societies, and extensively as consultant to international development agencies
including the World Bank, CGIAR, FAO, WHO, UNICEF, British Council, in many
countries including Iran, Haiti, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Niger, Benin,
Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Yemen, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia,
Malaysia and China.
Professor Geissler
has over 200 academic publications including the text book – Geissler &
Powers: Human Nutrition (Elsevier 12th edition), the 13th edition is in
preparation to be published by Oxford University Press, and with Vaughan, an
illustrated volume – The New Oxford Book of Food Plants (Oxford University
Press 2nd edition).