Paul Wells

Biography:
As Senior Columnist for Maclean's magazine, Paul Wells is one of Canada's
foremost political commentators.

Fresh, funny and authoritative, he was hailed by Robert Fulford as "a
first-class Ottawa reporter." His first book, Right Side Up: The Fall of
Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism was a national
bestseller. He has written for Time magazine, the National Post, La Presse
and the Literary Review of Canada. His blog, "Inkless Wells", is required
reading in Ottawa and wherever people spend too much time worrying about
politics.

A veteran television and radio commentator whose insights have educated and
entertained audiences in French and English, Wells is returning from a year
in Paris as Maclean's Europe correspondent, where he reported from Germany,
Poland, the UK, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Paul studied at the University of Western Ontario
and the Institut d'Etudes politiques de Paris. He is on the Advisory
Committee of the new Glendon School of Public Affairs and is a Fellow of the
new School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.

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