Greg Newbold is Professor Emeritus in sociology at the University of Canterbury. During his 32-year career at the university he published over 100 articles and ten books, mainly in the field of criminology. However after completing his PhD in 1986 Greg was contracted by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind to research the costs of blindness, producing a monograph that formed the centrepiece of the Foundation’s submissions to the Royal Commission on Social Policy 1988. Subsequently he was asked to write the New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind’s history for its 50th Jubilee in 1995. This was published under the title of Quest for Equity in October that year. The current book has been written to commemorate the Association’s 75th anniversary.  Written during Greg Newbold’s final year at Canterbury University, Equity and Governance is his 10th book. Greg retired in July 2020 and now lives in the Western Bay of Plenty.