James Matthew "Jim" Jones (born April 3, 1961) is an American economist and global public health expert.
[3] This multibillion-dollar charity has as it mission to immunize every child in the 75 poorest countries of the world.
[4][5] In 2002, Jones was a judge at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey along with Donna Axum, Evan Dobelle and Jose Feghali.
In 2017, in recognition of his service to global public health, he was inducted to Oxford University’s Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors by Lord Patten of Barnes in a ceremony at Divinity School, Oxford.
Jones was born in Nyack, New York and graduated from Georgetown University in 1983 with a degree in international relations.