John Elfed Jones CBE (born 19 March 1933) is a Welsh businessman and language activist, who has held the chairmanships of several public bodies in Wales.
[2] From 1996 to 2006 Jones was chairman of International Greetings plc, a major manufacturer of gift wrapping paper, greetings cards and Christmas crackers whose main factory was at Hirwaun near Aberdare.
[1][4][5] Jones' involvement in the publicly owned Welsh Water Authority was later criticised by Rhodri Morgan, then the First Minister of Wales, and by others because of the incentives package that accompanied his role.
[2] In 2001, Jones wrote an article in the Welsh-language magazine Barn, which was widely criticised for likening "outsiders" coming into Wales to an outbreak of "human foot-and-mouth disease".
[8] Jones's portrait, by Peter Douglas Edwards, is displayed at the Founder's Library in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David at Lampeter, of which he was president in 1992–1998.