Rustam Minnikhanov: Tatarstan and Brazil have huge potential for mutually beneficial cooperation

August,15. On arriving to São Paulo (Brazil) President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a working dinner for members of International advisory board of business school Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC).

Rustam Minnikhanov thanked executives of the business school for opportunity to attend a meeting and introduce Tatarstan as one of the leading and rapidly developing Russian regions.

In his welcoming speech Rustam Minnikhanov informed that Tatarstan is one the largest industrial centres in Russia, first of all in the sphere of petrochemistry, oil refining, mechanical and instrument engineering, aircraft, ship and helicopter engineering. “We have enormous opportunities for cooperation. We hope that this visit will favor establishing new contacts with business community of Brazil”, - Head of Tatarstan stressed.

On finishing his speech Rustam Minnikhanov invited members of International advisory board of business school Fundação Dom Cabral to visit Tatarstan Republic and expressed hope for efficient development and strengthening relationship between Tatarstan and Brazil partners.

We remind that President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov arrived to Federal Republic Brazil on August, 15, 2011. The trip is realized jointly with “Troika Gialog” company. The Republic of Tatarstan is also introduced by Director of Department for external relations at RT President – Aide to RT President Iskander Muflikhanov, Director-general of JSC “Tatneft” Shafagat Takhautdinov, Director-general of JSC “KAMAZ” Sergei Kogogin, Chairman of Directors board of JSC “Ak Bars” Bank Robert Musin, Director-general of JSC “Holding company “Ak Bars” Ivan Egorov.

The itinerary implies visit to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, participation in session of International advisory board of business school Fundação Dom Cabral, meetings with businessmen and officials.

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Fundação Dom Cabral is among five best business schools in the world and is one of the leading business schools in Latin America, international centre for preparing executives and developing companies on the basis of advanced managing technologies.

Yearly more than 25 000 executives undergo training at Fundação Dom Cabral. The school integrates various centres of knowledge generation (Centre of stability«Petrobras», Centre of corporate management, Centre of development and leadership «Vale», Centre of entrepreneurship, Centre of strategic management and leadership, International business centre, innovations centre, Centre of infrastructure and logistics CCR, Business-to-Business (B2B) and others. These institutions carry out research at Brazil enterprises and their management system, creating sound foundation for development of FDC programs and present FDC as knowledge-generation institute.

Along with Fudan University (China) and Indian School of Business (India) FDC is a partner of Moscow management school Skolkovo by the project “Emerging Markets Global Players”.