Maurice Antonia Jones (born September 14, 1964) is the former CEO of OneTen, a coalition of companies dedicated to creating one million jobs for African Americans by the end of the 2020s.

[2] Prior to OneTen, he was president and CEO of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national community development financial institution.

[4] Jones was born in rural Mecklenburg County and grew up on his grandparents' tobacco farm near the town of Kenbridge.

[5] He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Hampden–Sydney College, where he graduated Omicron Delta Kappa, before attending St. John's College, Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship and the University of Virginia School of Law.

[6] In November 2020, Jones was named a candidate for United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Biden administration, but was not chosen.