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Josipa Petrunic
Josipa  Petrunic is a Canadian advocate for low- and zero emission
Josipa G Petrunic
transportation technology. She is the CEO and executive director of the
Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium.[1][2] Born 1980
Petrunic was awarded the Canada Clean50 Award for her leadership Calgary, Alberta
integrating 20 electric buses with seven overhead charging systems across Nationality Canadian
three Canadian municipalities to demonstrate and promote the Alma mater University of
standardization of charging technologies. Edinburgh (PhD)
University of
Edinburgh (M.Sc)
London School of
Contents Economics and
Political Science
Early life and education
(M.Sc.) Carleton
Career
Journalism University (B.J.)
Educator work Occupation CEO and executive
Transportation policy and technology research work director, Canadian
Writing Urban Transit
Awards and recognition Research and
Electoral history Innovation
References Consortium
Known for Low-carbon smart
mobility transportation
Early life and education innovation, alternate
propulsion technology
Petrunic was born and raised in a middle class Croatian immigrant family
for transit
in Calgary, Alberta. She attended St. Martha’s school in Marlborough Park,
Calgary before heading downtown to study at St. Mary’s high school in Calgary. She did her undergraduate degree in
Political Science and Journalism from Carleton University and pursued graduate training in Political Philosophy from
London School of Economics and Political Science.[3] She embarked on another master's degree in Science and
Technology Studies (Sociology of Scientific Knowledge) and did her doctoral studies in the History of Mathematics at
the University of Edinburgh. She did post-doctoral research fellowships at the Department of Science and Technology
Studies, University College London (UK) and Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
(IHPST), University of Toronto.[4][5][6]

Career
Petrunic is the Executive Director and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium
(CUTRIC). She is involved in developing industry-academic collaborations to advance the next generation of
technologies for Canadian transit and transportation systems. She focuses on low-carbon smart mobility technologies
across heavy-duty and light-duty platforms, including advanced transit, transportation, and integrated mobility
applications,[7][8] Petrunic leads Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC)'s efforts to
support the commercialization of technologies through industry-led collaborative research, development,
demonstration/delivery, and integration (RDD&I) projects.[6] Petrunic also acted as a board member and chair for

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Electric Mobility Canada wherein she supported the development of the second Canadian electric vehicle (EV)
Technology Roadmap elucidating the technological and policy milestones related to electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure,
EV supply chain development, and EV commercialization across Canada over the next decade.[1][9]

Petrunic built a national consortium of more than 100 private sector and public sector companies including original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs), automotive industry corporations, research organizations, and academic
institutions across Canada to understand and address the political, social, infrastructural, and manufacturing/supply
chain barriers to alternative propulsion technology powered transportation.[10] Currently, she is leading the
formulation of several national transportation technology trials related to zero-emission transportation and “smart
vehicles” innovation, including the Pan-Canadian Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial, the Pan-Canadian
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration & Integration Trial and the Canadian National Smart Vehicle Demonstration
Project.[6][11][12][13]

Journalism
From 1999-2002, while completing her degree in political science and journalism at Carleton University, Petrunic
worked as a full-time journalist for The Edmonton Journal, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star[14]

Educator work
Petrunic was the director of operations and senior manager for Prepskills during the period of 2008-2011, wherein she
led the design and development of innovative curriculum products focusing on English literature, writing, algebra,
calculus, and logic for students entering the private schooling system in Canada and the United States.[15][16] Since
2012, Petrunic has led the design, research, and on-going development of the MA-IS graduate program’s core course in
interdisciplinary research methodologies, including statistical and quantitative methods as well as interview, focus
group, and observational analyses at Athabasca University. She is a sessional faculty member at McMaster University
and Athabasca University.[17][18][19]

Transportation policy and technology research work

Petrunic led the research framework, including design and development, for a MacAUTO-sponsored Electric Vehicle
Technology Roadmap at the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC), McMaster University in Hamilton,
Ontario. She provided normative recommendations for targeted federal, provincial, and municipal public policies
aimed at increasing regional investments in sustainable transportation and automotive manufacturing, focusing on the
comparative benefits of electrified transportation incentives (including rebates, subsidies, HOV lanes) for hybrid, plug
in hybrid, and battery electric vehicles, fleets, and buses across Canada. She led the collaborative operation involving
provincial, national, and international organisations – such as Electric Mobility Canada (EMC), Plug n’ Drive, the
Canadian Automobile Association (CAA), and the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) – in formulating
best practices for sustainable transportation policies and investments.[20][21][22] During the 2014-2015 period, she
functioned as the Executive Director of the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL), McMaster
University, leading the Social Costs and Benefits of Electric Mobility in Canada project. In this role, she led a research
team in the design and collection of consumer, dealership, and transit fleet manager survey data related to electric
mobility in Canada and coordinated and engaged industrial and public stakeholders across Canada to generate in-
depth methodological feedback to improve data outputs.[23][24][25][11]

Writing
Petrunic has published articles on the electrification of transportation and advancing the automotive system,
addressing the opportunities and the political, policy-related and technological challenges involved.[26] Furthermore,
she has authored articles on factors affecting the process of locating electric vehicle charging stations, and the

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challenges and benefits involved in carbon pricing policies.[27] and Additionally, she has contributed to mathematical
scholarship by addressing topics including evolutionary naturalism, continuity, evolutionary mathematics, symbolic
algebra,quaternions, colonial mathematics, and vector analysis.[28][29] She has done invited talks on low-carbon smart
mobility and the need and significance of decoupling Canada's economy from carbon-based fuel sources at multiple
locations across the country.[30][31]

Awards and recognition
Petrunic was recognized by the Commonwealth Scholarship for academic excellence to Clean50 for leadership in
environmental sustainability initiatives,[11] and was elected to sit on the Board of Directors for InnovÉÉ (Observer) to
ensure cross-pollination and innovation symbiosis in electrified vehicle technology development across Ontario and
Quebec. Starting in 2018, she would be serving as an expert advisor to the City of Vancouver's Electric Vehicle Expert
Panel.[6] She was awarded the Canada Clean50 Award for her efforts in forging and launching the Pan-Canadian
Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial integrating 20 electric buses with 7 overhead charging systems across
three Canadian municipalities to demonstrate and promote the standardization of charging technologies.[32][33][34] She
recently received the 'Croatian Women of Influence Award 2018'.[35]

Electoral history
Alberta general election, 2012: Edmonton-Gold Bar
Party Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative David Dorward 6,689 33%
New Democratic Marlin Schmidt 5,809 29%
Liberal Josipa Petrunic 4,072 20%
Wildrose Linda Carlson 3,175 16%
Alberta Party Dennis O’Neill 344 2%
Evergreen David Parker 201 1%
"Archived copy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120504035220/http://results.elections.ab.ca/35.htm).
Archived from the original (http://results.elections.ab.ca/35.htm) on 2012-05-04. Retrieved
2012-04-29.

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ob-to-get-everyone-past-that-outdated-thinking/article31529883/). The Globe and Mail. 24 March 2017. Retrieved
January 15, 2018.
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5. "Connecting People Through News" (http://www.pressreader.com/canada/calgary-herald/20110409/29752527077
3393). April 9, 2011. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
6. "Staff" (http://cutric-crituc.org/staff/). Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium. November 20,
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7. "Canada Sets the Course with Zero Emission Demonstration Trial - North America's Bus Leader" (https://www.new
flyer.com/2017/08/canada-sets-the-course-with-zero-emission-demonstration-trial/). New Flyer | North America’s
Bus Leader. August 14, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
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