Jason Kap-kirwok
Non-Executive Director (57 Years
)
Jason Kap-kirwok is the Senior Regional Director and Head of
the EAC-TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) Partnership Programme
based in Arusha, Tanzania. In this position, he is a member of
the senior management team of TMEA.
Prior to this appointment, Kap-kirwok was the Kenya Country
Director for TMEA. He joined TMEA from SBP Consult – a
consultancy he set up in 2004 and through which he consulted
for airlines across Africa, among others. His last assignment
before joining TMEA was a long-term contract with the World
Bank to support the 19 countries of the Common Market for
Eastern & Southern Africa (COMESA) to integrate regional and
national strategic planning. Kap-kirwok was also the Senior
Director and Head of Corporate Strategy and Operational
Change for Heifer International, a US-based development
organisation with a historical footprint in 125 countries.
Kap-kirwok has also previously worked for the Kenya Airways
Group as the Group Director for Corporate Strategy and
Industry Affairs, and the Chief of Strategic Planning and
Research for the 20 member Common Market for East And
Southern Africa, COMESA. He has served in boards of many
organisations including in the strategy committee of the
Nairobi Securities Exchange and KenCargo Airlines Limited.
He has taught air transport management as a visiting lecturer
for the City University of London and financial management and creative writing at Daystar University as a part-time
lecturer. Besides being an author (he has published five
books), he is passionate about social justice and comments
on economics and politics in his capacity as a newspaper
columnist – currently for the Star Newspaper and previously
as Sunday Standard columnist. His book, ‘I Blame the Sky’,
won the 2013 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Children’s
English Category. He has also published two poetry
collections (Heartbeats of the Mind and Loud Monologues,
Silent Dialogues), a novella for young adults (The Heart is
a Reluctant Nomad), and a collection of opinion articles
(Telling it to the Birds). He has a forthcoming novel – The
Speed of Sin – published in early 2016.
Kap-kirwok, with the help of friends, helped build the first
modern school library for Chemoge Secondary School in
Mt. Elgon sub-county. For this and other contributions in the
education sector, he was nominated by Bungoma County and
honoured during the 2014 National Heroes Day (Mashujaa
Day) in October 2014.
Kap-kirwok is a graduate of the University of Nairobi (BSc),
Eastern University (MBA), Wharton Business School (Certificate
in Strategy) and University of Cape Town (Certificate
in Leadership).
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