Biography
Jones earned a bachelor's degree with distinction in biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999, where he studied genetics and chronic disease under the supervision of James V. Neel and evolution in classes taught by Richard D. Alexander.
From 1999, Jones matriculated in Christ Church, Oxford University earning two post-graduate degrees, starting with a Master's in Human Biology. While at Christ Church, he was elected variously to Social Secretary of the Graduate Common Room and Master of the Hawks in the Hood and Bell Club. From 2002 to 2005 he was president of Oxford's controversial banking forum. This forum brought international financial services leaders from around the world to discuss frank academic issues. Attendees included Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell, inventor of the currency known as the Euro. During the Oxford years, Jones won a fellowship from the Bertarelli Foundation in Switzerland, created by Ernesto Bertarelli and Donna Bertarelli Spaeth, to develop a cost-effective framework of fertility treatment that would preserve the dignity of human life. After earning his doctorate in health economics/medical sciences from Oxford, he became a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
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