Andrea Mandel-Campbell

Andrea Mandel-Campbell is a veteran business journalist, best-selling author, policy entrepreneur and communications consultant. She grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and attended the University of Winnipeg Collegiate with her first job out of university being a reporter for the Flin Flon Daily Reminder. She graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with a Combined Honours in Journalism and Political Science. She sits on the board of Startup Canada, a new national organization which aims to inspire, foster and celebrate entrepreneurship in Canada. Andrea is a founding member of Forgirlsake, a charity dedicated to funding girls' education. She is a former board member with the Canadian Council for the Americas from 2008-2011. A former television anchor with CTV's Business News Network and author of the celebrated current affairs book, "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson", Andrea has been a frequent media commentator on Canadian politics and business and a sought-after public speaker. Nominated for the Writer's Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing and the John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize, "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson" takes a penetrating and unapologetic look at why Canadian companies fail to go global and why they must. Her multi-faceted career began as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times of London in Latin America and her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, specializing in global competitiveness issues and has contributed to Maclean's, Walrus magazine and Toronto Life, among others. A foreign correspondent in Latin America for close to a decade, Andrea was the Mexico bureau chief for London's Financial Times as well as a correspondent in Argentina for Business Week magazine. In 2006, she won a media fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada to travel to China and write about Canada-China business ties for Maclean's magazine. In 2008, the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) awarded her an Honorary Certified International Trade Professional designation (CITP). Her deep interest in public policy prompted her to run as a candidate in the 2011 Ontario provincial election. She is Director of Communications for the Honourable Tony Clement, Presidental of the Treasury Board. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her husband, daughter Isabella, and son, Adrian.