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Joel Dodd is a teacher and author, resident in New Zealand. Born in Auckland in 1966, he lived in Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury before returning to Takapuna. He studied at the University of Waikato from 1985 to 1989, completing first a BSc and then an MSc(Hons) degree, both in Earth Sciences. He married in 1989, and has three children (1990, 1992, 1997), and an encyclopedic knowledge of The Who. After an industrial career as an industrial chemist at the Macraes Flat gold mine (East Otago, New Zealand) and as a Plant and Quality Systems Supervisor (New Plymouth), he trained and completed his post-graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary, via Massey University College of Education). In 2005 he was appointed the Head of the Mathematics Department of Coastal Taranaki School, in Okato. For exercise, he plays viola for the New Plymouth Orchestra, and rides his bike through the Taranaki countryside.

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