Jake Grieves-Cook

Jake Grieves-Cook's profile

Jake Grieves-Cook is Managing Director and founder of Gamewatchers Safaris & Porini Camps based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a Kenyan citizen and was educated at Nairobi School in Kenya and Oxford University in UK. Jake Grieves-Cook has been involved in Kenya’s tourism industry for over 40 years, starting his career in the Masai Mara in 1972, and has held positions as Managing Director of Block Hotels in Kenya, Marketing Director of Kuoni Travel in the UK and was the founder of the tour company Tropical Places in UK. In Kenya he has been a pioneer in the setting up of wildlife conservancies on land leased from Maasai communities adjacent to parks and reserves. He has been Chairman of the Ecotourism Society of Kenya, on the board of the Kenya Wildlife Service, Chairman of the Kenya Tourism Federation and served two terms as Chairman of the Kenya Tourist Board. He was a trustee of the EU/ Kenya Government Tourism Trust Fund (TTF), a Vice-Chairman of the East African Wildlife Society and was awarded MBS (Moran of the Burning Spear) and HSC (Head of State's Commendation) for services to tourism and conservation in Kenya.