Andrew Potter

Andrew Potter
Born	1972 Teulon, Manitoba
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	McGill University, University of Toronto
Occupation	Writer, Journalist
Known for	Editor of Ottawa Citizen

Andrew Potter is a Canadian author and editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen; best known outside Canada for co-authoring The Rebel Sell, with Joseph Heath, and for his 2010 book, The Authenticity Hoax.

Born in Teulon, Manitoba, Potter attended Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, before earning a BA in Philosophy at McGill University, then MA and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was also an assistant professor at Trent University for three years. Upon graduation, he did post-doctoral work at the Centre de recherches en éthique (CREUM) at the University of Montreal.

Potter was Professor of Philosophy from 2001 to 2004 at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

He then left academia to become the National Editor at the Ottawa Citizen, a daily newspaper. He left in 2010 when he was appointed Features Editor at Canadian Business in Toronto. Potter returned to the Ottawa Citizen to become Managing Editor in 2011 and was promoted to Editor-In-Chief in December 2013. In 2013, Potter and the Ottawa Citizen were awarded the Michener Award for reporting that exposed the use of “robocalls” to mislead and harass voters during the 2011 federal election campaign.

From 2007 to 2012 Potter wrote a column for the Canadian national weekly news Maclean's magazine. In 2016, Andrew Potter was appointed as the Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada [MISC] at McGill University in Montreal Québec.

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