Dr Zheng-Rong Shi

With a career spanning more than three decades as a solar scientist and entrepreneur, Dr. Shi is the inventor of over 60 patents in photovoltaic technologies, and has published more than 110 articles in PV-related scientific magazines. He was elected as the fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering in 2009. Dr. Shi founded Suntech in 2001 and since then led PV industry growth through innovation, talent cultivation, manufacturing process and supply chain development, reducing the cost of PV panels drastically and accelerating the realization of an affordable price of electricity generated by solar energy.