Rose M. Patten is special advisor to the CEO and senior executives at BMO Financial Group. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2007 and has been recognized by American Banker magazine as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking. From 2014 to 2017 she was chair of the board of trustees of the Hospital for Sick Children. She was appointed as an officer of the Order of Canada in 2017 and currently serves as the thirty-fourth chancellor of the University of Toronto. She is also an adjunct professor and executive in residence at the Rotman School of Management and was recently appointed honorary colonel of the Canadian Forces College.