陈清泉，世界电动汽车协会创始主席兼亚太电动车协会主席。

原籍福建省漳州市，1937年1月出生于印度尼西亚的马吉朗市，是著名的电机、电力驱动和电动车专家，作为世界电动车协会的创办人及轮值主席，被誉为“电动车三贤士”之一，《Global  View》杂志称赞其为“亚洲电动车之父”。

陈清泉院士1957年毕业于北京矿业学院，1957-1959年被保送至清华大学攻读研究生学位，1982年获香港大学哲学博士学位，并任教于该校电机电子工程学科。1993年获乌克兰敖德萨理工大学荣誉科学技术博士学位。1996年获匈牙利电工技术学会优秀成就奖，并获选香港工程科学院院士。1997年获选英国皇家工程院院士、中国工程院院士和乌克兰工程科学院院士。2001年获选英国剑桥大学丘吉尔学院院士。2008年获英国洛夫堡大学荣誉技术博士学位。现任香港大学荣誉教授、中国矿业大学信息与电气工程学院院长、香港工程科学院副院长，兼任世界电动车协会主席、亚太电动车协会主席等职务。

陈清泉院士提出了电动车研究核心和总体指导思想，将汽车技术、电机技术、电力驱动技术、电力电子技术和现代控制理论有机结合起来，为现代电动车学奠定了基础，使现代电动车学这一新兴交叉学科从理论到实践形成了一个完整的体系，多次获得国际性科技杰出成就奖。陈清泉院士多次任国际学术会议主席或主题报告者并兼任国内外著名大学名誉或客座教授。兼任政府、企业的高级科技顾问，国内外专业学术团体领导职务。著有9部学术专著，发表了300多篇论文，以及拥有8项专利。

Prof. Chen Qingquan，Founding President of World Electric Vehicle  Association and Electric Vehicle Association of Asia Pacific. He was born in an Indonesian entrepreneur family in 1937. He learned English, German and Japanese in his childhood. In 1953, he came back to his homeland and later graduated from Beijing Mining Institute in 1957, then was recommended for immediate admission to Postgraduate Class of Tsinghua University. Currently he is appointed as lecture professor and dean of Electrical Machinery and Electrical Engineering Department of Hong Kong University as well as director of International Electric Vehicle Research Center. He is also a professor and doctoral supervisor in College of Electrical Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology. At the same time, he is also honorary professor, visiting professor, guest professor of many famous universities in China, America, England, Germany, France and Japan, Dean of International Institute of Higher Learning, Academician of Engineering and Science Institute of Ukraine, Engineering and Science Institute of Hong Kong, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), Churchill College of Cambridge. In 1997 he was inducted as an academician of China Engineering Academy.

His main inventions include high performance motor, special electric motor, optimization system of electric vehicle, electric drive system of electric vehicle, intelligent testing system, battery intelligent management system, energy intelligent management system, optimization of electric magnetic field analysis, etc. In 1993, he created U2001 advanced electric vehicle which was highly credited as one of the models of current electric vehicles.