1. Theodore Hsu is a Canadian physicist and politician who has represented Kingston and the Islands in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2022 as a member of the Ontario Liberal Party.
17 Facts About Ted Hsu
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On May 28,2023, Hsu announced his candidacy for the 2023 Ontario Liberal Party Leadership Election in which he was eliminated on the first ballot.
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Ted Hsu was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, in 1964 to James and Marjorie and is the oldest of three siblings.
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Ted Hsu is of Chinese descent and is fluent in English, French, and Mandarin.
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Ted Hsu attended high school at Kingston's Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
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Ted Hsu pursued graduate studies at Princeton University, where he completed his PhD in physics in 1989 after successfully defending his dissertation titled "Towards an understanding of the large U-Hubbard model and a theory for high temperature superconductors," under the supervision of Philip W Anderson, recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Ted Hsu went on to complete post-doctoral research in Chalk River, Vancouver, and France.
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Ted Hsu is a long-term member of SWITCH, a Kingston-based not-for-profit association that promotes local job creation and green economic growth.
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Ted Hsu was one of only two new Liberal MPs elected in Canada in what was the party's poorest showing in history.
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One of only a few MPs with an academic science background, Ted Hsu served in the Liberal Party shadow cabinet as the critic for science and technology.
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Ted Hsu would serve as critic for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario and critic for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario.
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In 2011, Ted Hsu was the first runner-up to Conservative MP Chris Alexander as Rookie of the Year, in Maclean's annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards.
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Ted Hsu was the first runner-up for the Rising Star award for Maclean's in 2012 and the annual accolades continued in November 2013, with Ted Hsu winning the Maclean's Parliamentarian of the Year Award.
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In 2017, Ted Hsu joined SYNG pharmaceuticals, a Kingston-based biotechnology startup focusing on diagnosing and treating endometriosis.
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In 2020, Ted Hsu announced his campaign to represent Kingston and the Islands as the Ontario Liberal Party candidate in the upcoming provincial election.
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Ted Hsu won the bid over previous MPP Sophie Kiwala, who lost in the 2018 Ontario election, in November 2020.
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Ted Hsu has held the Ontario Liberal Party critic roles for the Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Ministry of Mines, and the Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism.