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Shawn Qu
Canadian Solar
CEO

Dr. Shawn (Xiaohua) Qu has served as the chairman, president and CEO since he founded Canadian Solar Inc. in 2001.

Prior to that, Dr. Qu worked at Automation Tooling Systems from 1998 to 2001, where he performed various responsibilities at the company and its PV subsidiaries, Matrix and Photowatt International S.A.

From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Qu was a research scientist at Ontario Power Generation Corp. (formerly Ontario Hydro), where he worked as a process leader in the development of Spheral SolarTM technology, a next-generation solar technology.

Dr. Qu received a Ph.D. in material science from the University of Toronto in 1995, an master's degree in physics from the University of Manitoba in 1990 and a bachelor's degree in applied physics from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 1986.

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