of Joseph Rotman is making a landmark $30 million gift to the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. The gift will help the Rotman School, already one of the leading global brands in management education, continue to be at the forefront of transforming management education and research. Supporter of the arts A lifelong enthusiast and supporter of the arts, Rotman applied his business experience to creating environments for the arts to thrive in Canada and throughout the world. Rotman served as chair of the Board of the Art Gallery of Ontario (1993–96), as a Board Member (1991-2000) and continued, along with his wife, to be a benefactor. During this time, he was also a Member of the Board of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (1996-1998). In July 2008, Rotman was appointed to a five-year term as Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, the national arts funding agency that provides grants, endowments, prizes and promotion of the arts. He was re-elected as chair in July 2013 for an additional 5 years. Education benefactor The Rotmans established involvement with the University of Toronto since 1981. From 2001 to 2004, Rotman sat on the Committee for Honorary Degrees, was a Governing Council Member from 1995 to 2003, an Executive Committee Member (1998-2003) and was the vice-chair of the University of Toronto's Asset Management Corporation (2000-2006). The Rotman School of Management was named in his honour by the leading gift of his wife and family and is an internationally renowned business education institution that educates globally competitive leaders and maintains the world's leading business faculty. The Rotmans also provided financial assistance for the Lloyd and Delphine Martin Prosperity Institute. The Rotmans also supported the Western University since 1999 through the Rotman Institute of Philosophy – Engaging Science, which fosters a global centre to build novel and productive bridges between humanities and the sciences to address relevant issues faced by society. In addition, Rotman established the Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science addressing the nature of scientific theory. Advancement of life sciences and innovation Rotman lent his business experience to the advancement of Canadian life sciences research, Canadian innovation and commercialization capacity, and related public policy at both the federal and provincial levels, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Chair of the Ontario Genomics Institute, a provincial entity, for Genome Canada. In 1989, the Rotman Research