Catherine Alison Geissler, Lady Auld[1] is a prominent British nutritionist and author and co-author of widely recognised reference textbooks on human nutrition.
On leaving school she attended Edinburgh University, where she studied dentistry, obtaining her Bachelor of Dental Surgery BDS in 1963.
After her Master's degree she went to the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute in Teheran (under Habibollah Hedayat), where she participated in studies of energy expenditure of agricultural workers,[5] carpet weavers[6] and rural women.
[19][20] In 2003 she was invited by the Belgian government to give expert evidence on the role of ephedrine in the treatment of obesity.
A recognized authority on human nutrition and public health,[21] Geissler has served on many professional committees including the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) Food Advisory Committee, 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 (Senegal, Diourbel 1980, Senegal, Casamance 1980, Ghana 1981, Syria 1984, Niger 1991, Niger 1992, Benin 1993, Madagascar 1995, Armenia 1997), CGIAR, FAO (Mauritius 1974, Haiti 1982), WHO, the International Livestock Centre for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1982, UNICEF (Iran 1998), the British Council (Sierra Leone 1984, Syria 1984), in many countries including Iran, Haiti, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Niger, Benin, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Yemen,[22] Thailand, Philippines,[23] Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and China.