Akua leads the development of policy to advance sustainable building practices at the Canada Green Building Council. She has championed research and programming demonstrating how energy benchmarking, the retrofit economy and net zero development can play a role in the de-carbonization of Canada. Over the course of her career she has honed a deep understanding of tools to drive change including the strategic use of evidence-based research to inform policy decisions and the identification of market-based solutions to accelerate industry uptake on retrofits.