Andrew J. Petter CM OBC KC (born 1953) is a former academic and provincial politician in British Columbia, Canada.

He served as board chair of provincial Crown agency Innovate BC from 2021 to 2024, and was elected to be a director of Coast Capital Savings Credit Union in April 2024.

[2][3] Andrew's Jewish mother Elizabeth graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the 1930s, then joined the Tanzgruppe Bodenwieser as a dancer.

[4] She was on tour in London when she met Ernest Petter's son Gordon; the couple married in Vienna and lived there until the Anschluss.

[2] In the 1960s the family moved to the interior city of Nelson,[5] where Gordon Petter taught history at the now defunct Notre Dame University College.

[12] That June he was named Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations, while holding on to the intergovernmental portfolio and dropping the health and seniors file.

[14] Following Ujjal Dosanjh's election as new NDP leader, Petter was named Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Human Rights in February 2000.