Matt Davison is a professor in the departments of mathematics and statistical and actuarial sciences at Western University, where he also serves as dean of science. The author of more than 70 peer-reviewed academic articles and a textbook on quantitative finance, Davison is also the director of the Financial Wellness Lab of Canada. The lab joins researchers from Western University, Wilfrid Laurier University and several other universities with industry colleagues in a study of the drivers and determinants of the financial wellness of Canadian families. The methodology is data-driven and uses the expertise of the team in quantitative financial risk management, actuarial science and data science/machine learning. The Financial Wellness Lab of Canada is funded by several organizations, including the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council and the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences.