Charles Dunnett is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University. He has a BA degree from McMaster in mathematics and physics, an MA from University of Toronto in mathematics and a DSc from University of Aberdeen in statistics. He also did graduate study at Columbia University in mathematical statistics. During the Second World War, he served as a radar officer in the Fleet Air Arm and was awarded the MBE. He was employed as a statistician at Health and Welfare Canada in Ottawa and at Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River, New York, where he was head of the Statistical Design and Analysis Department. He joined McMaster as Professor in 1974 and was Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics in 1977-9. In 1987, he was appointed Professor Emeritus and since then has continued his research interests in medical statistics and multiple testing methods. He has spent research leaves at Cornell University, University of Aberdeen and University of Swansea and has been a Fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1965. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada in 1986.