Roberts T. Jones

MTC Institute

A nationally recognized expert in the workforce development field, Roberts Jones has over thirty years of organizational management and public policy experience in the training and education field. As a lifelong advocate for investing in people, Jones is widely credited with helping place workforce development at the forefront of the nation's public policy agenda. Prior to joining the Alliance, Jones was vice president of RJR Nabisco, Inc. Mr. Jones served both Presidents Reagan and Bush as Assistant Secretary of Labor, responsible for federal workforce development and training policy addressing the significant changes in work and the workplace. Jones played a key role in the Hudson Institute's landmark research project and report, Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the 21st Century, and was responsible for the Department of Labor's SCANS Commission, which for the first time spelled out the skills necessary for success in the workplace. Mr. Jones is a frequent commentator on economic and workforce issues on CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio. He also writes about workplace issues, appearing regularly in newspapers and periodicals across the United States.

Mr. Jones serves on the Board of Overseers of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the boards of United Benefit Advisors, Inc., the Management & Training Corporation, the Career Training Foundation, and the Talent Alliance. He is also a member of the National Council on Science and Technology Education of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mr. Jones was awarded the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award, the highest honor in the federal government, in 1986. Mr. Jones received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, and performed graduate work in Public Administration at the American University in Washington, DC. He also served for four years in the United States Air Force.