Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2018
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC)
Josipa G. Petrunic is the Executive Director & CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). She leads the formulation of national transportation technology trials related to zero-emissions 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. Josipa has built up CUTRIC’s consortium to include 100 private and public-sector companies and organizations across Canada. She served as the lead researcher in electric vehicle policy studies at McMaster University, and as a senior research fellow at University College London (UCL) in the United Kingdom in Science and Technology Studies and the history of mathematics and engineering. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh as a Commonwealth Scholar where she previously completed a Master's of Science in Science and Technology Studies, also as a Commonwealth Scholar. She completed a Master's of Science in Political Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Journalism at Carleton University. Josipa worked as a journalist at the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and Edmonton Journal. Josipa lectures in Globalization Studies at McMaster University and previously lectured on Interdisciplinary Research Methods at Athabasca University. Starting in 2018, Josipa now serves on the Board of Directors for the Women in Transportation Foundation.
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