Fernando Mata is a social demographer who obtained his doctorate in ethnic studies at York University (Toronto, Canada). In the last thirty years, he worked for various Canadian federal government departments such as Canadian Heritage, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Human Resources and Social Development and Justice Canada. He has several publications in Canadian and international journals and books in topics related to social demography, multiculturalism, ethnic and race relations as well as social statistics& methodology. He taught undergraduate and graduate courses in social demography and statistics for the Departments of Social Science at Royal Roads University (Victoria, Canada), School of Journalism and Communications at Carleton University and the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada). As a member of the Canadian Population Society he is interested in projects related to the well-being of visible, ethnic minorities and religious groups in Canada and the world.