Derek Jones (civil servant, born 1927), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Derek Jones (civil servant, born 1927)

British civil servant

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1927

Place of Birth: United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Oct-2008

Profession: justice of the peace, official

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Derek John Claremont Jones (Chinese: ??; 2 July 1927 – 4 October 2008) was a British and Hong Kong government official and a Senior Fellow of the Trade Policy Research Centre in London.
He originally served in the British civil service and was posted to the Hong Kong Government in 1971.
In Hong Kong, he was the first to hold the post of Secretary for Economic Services under the reform in 1973 and had served as Secretary for the Environment, Secretary for Transport and Official Legislative Councillor before he was posted to Brussels serving as Minister for Hong Kong Relations with European Community and Member States in 1982.
He subsequently retired from the government in 1986.