Speakers

Anica is HOK’s global sustainable design director, serving on the firm’s board of directors and design board. Based in Washington, D.C., Anica served as a mayoral appointee to the District of Columbia’s Green Building Advisory Council 2012-2025 and co-chaired the Building Energy Performance Standard Task Force 2019-2025. Anica has served three terms on the Green and Energy Codes Committee, supporting the district’s decarbonization code development. Nationally, Anica serves on the Board of the New Buildings Institute and the Urban Land Institute Net Zero Imperative Steering Committee. She is outgoing Chair of the USGBC LEED Steering Committee, delivering LEED v5; and a former chair of the AIA Codes and Standards Committee; Anica co-authored with the AIA Blue Ribbon Panel on Codes “Disruption, Evolution, and Change: AIA’s Vision for the Future of Design and Construction”. Her testimony before Congress and recommendations for building policies and incentives were included in the House Select Committee report “Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America”. Globally, Anica recently was a speaker and delegate to the inaugural United Nations Environment Programme Buildings and Climate Global Forum, describing how the building sector can scale up decarbonization efforts to meet the targets in the Paris Agreement.