TORONTO, February 5, 2001 -- With the long simmering trade dispute between Canada and Brazil heating up, a Brazilian academic with Canadian connections is available to comment on the latest developments.

Wolfgang Schoeps is Dean of BSP - Business School São Paulo for International Management, one of Brazil’s leading business schools. Schoeps, during his tenure as Dean, has formed strategic partnerships with universities in Canada including the University of Toronto.

The Rotman School of Management provides a global education module for the one-year Executive MBA program at the Business School São Paulo for International Management (BSP). The partnership with BSP brings approximately 160 Brazilian students to the Rotman School every year. In addition, BSP is an associate partner in Rotman’s Global Executive MBA program.

Dean Schoeps can be reached by phone at +55 11 5181-0027 or by e-mail at wschoeps@bsp.com.br

Recently ranked by Business Week in the top tier of business schools in the world, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School offers leading-edge research and undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the prestigious Rotman MBA, the newly redesigned Part-Time MBA, the Executive MBA, a first-rate Doctoral Program, the distinctive Master of Management & Professional Accounting program, combined programs with the University of Toronto faculties of Law, Engineering and Nursing, and an innovative series of Executive Programs tailored to the current needs of businesses and individual managers.

Ken McGuffin
Media Relations Officer
Rotman School of Management
Voice: (416) 946-3818
E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

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