Chelsie Cake
May 25, 2026
Heather Asare Awuku is a current Master of Arts in Environmental Policy (MAEP) student at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus. Her research interests include international environmental governance, climate policy, and offshore energy development.Heather is pursuing the thesis stream under the supervision of Dr. Paul Foley and Dr. Angela Carter. Her research examines how international laws governing offshore resources enable offshore oil and gas development, and how this can conflict with climate commitments, using Canada’s offshore oil governance and the Bay du Nord project off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador as a case study.
She is originally from Ghana and holds a BSc in Environmental Science from KNUST, Ghana, as well as an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford, UK. Prior to joining the MAEP program, Heather worked with the Petroleum Commission of Ghana, the country’s upstream oil and gas regulator, where she served as an Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Officer in Monitoring and Evaluation. Heather hopes the policy analysis and research skills she is developing through the MAEP program will support her future work in environmental and energy policy.