John Derek Jones OBE (12 April 1927 – 9 March 2013) was an English Congregationalist missionary and politician in Botswana.

His father was a shipping clerk and later a departmental manager in the Liverpool office of the Cunard White Star Line.

Vice-President Quett Masire urged him to run for city council as a Botswana Democratic Party candidate, but Jones did not believe that would be appropriate for a clergyman.

In 1982, the Botswana Book Centre left the ELDT and a Botswana-based trust was formed to hold the business.

His wife (since 1954), Joan Ann (née Talbert), originally Catholic, was awarded the MBE in 2000 for service to her community.