Andrew Towne is an endurance athlete, speaker, lawyer and international business consultant.
Andrew holds 5 world records in ocean rowing, US national championships in collegiate rowing and club running, and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He has also climbed the tallest mountain on every continent (including Mt Everest).
Passionate about international relations, Andrew advises multi-national corporations on strategic and organizational issues as a Principal in the Boston Consulting Group’s Minneapolis office. Andrew has lived/worked in 8 countries, promotes intercultural exchange as the Board Chair of Youth For Understanding USA and has served the US government in a variety of foreign policy roles.
Andrew earned his JD/MBA from The Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Morgenthau Scholar, Friedman Scholar, and Institute of Law and Economics Scholar. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in political science with honors from Yale University and studied for a year at the University of Nairobi as an NSEP Boren Scholar.
Resources:
Andrew’s Instagram account
Andrew’s Wikipedia page
The Impossible Row – 14 short videos about the trip
The Impossible Row – feature-length documentary available by signing up for a free 7-day trial of Discovery+ and searching within its streaming content for “The Impossible Row”
Articles:
- “6 Men Successfully Cross Drake Passage in a Rowboat” (National Public Radio Morning Edition)
- “Minneapolis resident among rowers who were first to cross Drake Passage” (Minnesota Public Radio All Things Considered)
- “Adventurer Andrew Towne ~ Chuck Lura on Magpies ~ Winter Wellness” (Prairie Public)
- “Minnesotan in ‘Impossible Row’ recalls fear and fury near Antarctica” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
- “Minneapolis man completes first-ever human-powered rowing trip from Chile to Antarctica” (NBC KARE 11 Minneapolis/St Paul)
- “Minnesota man sets world record rowing across dangerous Drake Passage”(ABC 5 Minneapolis/St Paul)
Andrew’s recommended books:
Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
Profiles in Courage (JF Kennedy)
A Grief Observed (CS Lewis)