TORONTO, January 12, 2015 – Andrea Mandel-Campbell today joins Teneo as a Senior Vice-President in Teneo’s Canada office.
Andrea Mandel-Campbell is Senior Vice-President at Teneo, with more than 20 years of experience in strategic and corporate communications, public affairs and media relations.
Prior to joining Teneo, Ms. Mandel-Campbell was Vice-President of Corporate Communications for Kinross Gold Corporation, one of the world’s leading gold mining companies. Previously, she was Director of Communications for the Secretary of the Treasury Board in Ottawa.
A veteran journalist and broadcaster, Ms. Mandel-Campbell began her career as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, where she spent close to a decade reporting from Chile, Argentina, Peru, Mexico and Cuba for various US, Canadian and European publications. She joined the Financial Times (FT) of London as a correspondent in Argentina and later reported for the FT from Mexico.
Ms. Mandel-Campbell is author of the best-selling current affairs book, Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson, which was nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize. In addition to regular public speaking, Ms. Mandel-Campbell was also an anchor on CTV’s Business News Network. Most recently, she was a contributing author of Why the World Won’t Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink Its International Policies.
She is a founding board member of Startup Canada, a grassroots organization supporting Canadian entrepreneurship and is a co-founder of Forgirlsake, a charity which supports girls’ education.