Matt Davison

Dr. Matt Davison is an Advisor at Mapleridge Capital Corp.
He is Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Finance and Professor in the Departments of Applied Mathematics and of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, where he directs the quantitative finance research group comprising 5 other faculty and approximately 20 graduate students.
Mr. Davison also teaches financial modelling at the Richard Ivey School of Business.
He leads the multi-university Modelling Trading and Risk in the Market project of MITACS, a Canadian Mathematics Network of Centres of Excellence.
Before becoming an academic in 1999, Mr. Davison was assistant vice president in Deutsche Bank Canada's equity arbitrage group and has recently served as the chair of Western's academic pension committee.
Dr. Davison received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and a doctorate degree from the University of Western Ontario.