Lisa Hasan is an architect, researcher, and project management professional dedicated to the decarbonization of the built environment. She brings over two decades of experience spanning architectural practice, municipal government, and applied research. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the Université de Montréal, an MBA from Concordia’s John Molson School of Business, and a Master’s in Architecture from McGill University. Lisa’s research and publications focus on the politics of building sector decarbonization. She has studied how discourse, institutions, and powerful coalitions influence the transformative capacity of building performance standards, net-zero building standards, and multilevel climate governance.
As founder of LNH Consulting, Lisa works at the intersection of energy and urban transitions and climate governance, through partnerships with academic, government, industry, and civil society stakeholders. She is a member of the expert advisory council of the Building Decarbonization Alliance and serves on two CSA Group technical committees: Performance-based Evaluation of Alterations to Existing Buildings and District Renewable Energy – Framework for Energy and GHG Allocation Methods. Lisa is also a long-standing member of the National Building Code technical committees. Under the Climate Mitigation technical committee, she chairs the task group on operational greenhouse gas emissions and co-chairs the task group on embodied carbon.
When she is not working, you can find Lisa on the trails running, hiking, skiing or going on adventures with her partner and their two boys.
