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| name          = Josipa G Petrunic
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| alma mater    = [[University of Edinburgh]] (PhD) [[University of Edinburgh]] (M.Sc) [[London School of Economics and Political Science]] (M.Sc.) [[Carleton University]] (B.J.)
| birth_date    = 198079
| birth_place   = [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]]
| nationality   = [[Canadian]]
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| occupation    = CEO and executive director, Canadian Urban Transit<br> Research and Innovation Consortium 
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| known_for     = Low-carbon smart mobility transportation innovation, alternate propulsion technology for transit
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'''Josipa Petrunic''' is a Canadian advocate for low- and [[zero emission]] transportation technology. She is the CEO and eExecutive dDirector of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium.<ref name="The Globe and Mail 2017">{{cite web | title=This CEO is trying to get the auto and transit industries to co-operate | website=The Globe and Mail | date=24 March 2017 | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/the-transit-and-auto-sectors-act-as-if-they-dont-share-technologies-its-josipa-petrunics-job-to-get-everyone-past-that-outdated-thinking/article31529883/ | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref><ref name="SingularityU Canada 2017">{{cite web | title=The Path to Electric Transportation | website=SingularityU Canada | date=12 October 2017 | url=http://singularityucanadasummit.org/event/path-electric-transportation/ | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref> Petrunic was awarded the Canada Clean50 Award for her leadership integrating 20 electric buses with seven overhead charging systems across three [[Canada|Canadian]] municipalities to demonstrate and promote the standardizati ⏎
Previously, she served as the lead researcher in electric vehicle policy studies at [[McMaster University]], and as a senior research fellow in the history and philosophy of mathematics at [[University College London]] (UCL) in the United Kingdom in Science and Technology Studies. She currently sits on the Board of the Women's Transportation Seminar  (WTS) Foundation and InnovÉÉ, an electrical vehicle R&D funding body in [[Quebec]].<ref>{{ cite web|url =https://www.wtsinternational.org/board-spotlight-is-on-dr-josipa-petrunic/|title =Board Spotlight is on Dr. Josipa Petrunic| access-date= 22 October 2018}} </ref> In 2018, Dr. Petrunic was named a Canada Clean 50 for her work in Sustainable Technologies, and in 2018 she was named one of charging technologies.Canada's a Top 40 Under 40 by [[Bloomberg News]].  <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/canada-s-next-leaders-2018-top-40-under-40-1.1097343|title =Canada's Next Leaders: 2018 Top 40 Under 40}} </ref>

== Early life and education ==
Petrunic was born and raised in a middle class Croatian immigrant family 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/the-transit-and-auto-sectors-act-as-if-they-dont-share-technologies-its-josipa-petrunics-job-to-get-everyone-past-that-outdated-thinking/article31529883/|title=This CEO is trying to get the auto and transit industries to co-operate|publisher=|access-date=16 January 2018|via=The Globe and Mail}}</ref> 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]].<re(contracted; show full)
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[[Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh]]
[[Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics]]
[[Category:Carleton University alumni]]
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