Dr Alan Bollard has been governor of New Zealand's central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, since 2002 and retires at the end of this year. He has a PhD in economics from The University of Auckland and was made a Distinguished Alumnus of the university in 1998. He has been New Zealand's Secretary of the Treasury (1998-2002) and Chair of the Commerce Commission (1994-1998). He is a past Director of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (1987-1994) and has worked as an economist in the Britain and the South Pacific. Dr Bollard has produced a computer simulation game called Oikonomos - where players act as the Minister of Finance - and he helped rebuild the famous Phillips hydraulic economic simulation model "the Moniac". He is the author of a number of books, including Small Business in New Zealand, The Structure and Dynamics of New Zealand Industries and Crisis: One Central Bank Governor & the Global Financial Collapse, a memoir of his experiences during the global financial meltdown published in September 2010 to coincide with the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Sarah Gaitanos is a Wellington based writer and oral historian. An arts graduate of the University of Canterbury, she is the author of Nola Millar: A Theatrical Life, researched with the assistance of a $10,000 history research trust award and written while a Visiting Resident Scholar at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington), and The Violinist: Clare Galambos Winter, Holocaust Survivor, written with the assistance of the Todd Writers' Bursary and a Claude McCarthy Fellowship.