Derek John Claremont Jones CMG (Chinese: 鍾信; 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.
One year later, he was posted to the United Kingdom Mission in Geneva and became a Counsellor especially responsible for the trading affairs to Hong Kong.
In 1973, the Hong Kong Government, under Governor Sir Murray MacLehose (later Lord), reformed its organisation according to the recommendations made in the McKinsey Report.
A new form of structure, nicknamed "Mini-Cabinet" by the local newspapers, was introduced that six new government posts were rearranged.
When he was Secretary of the Government, Jones was responsible to a number of issues including the construction of Tsuen Wan line of the MTR.
On 4 October 2008, he died peacefully in his sleep, after a short illness, in St Agnes, Cornwall.