ACT Board of Directors

Roberts T. Jones
President and CEO (Retired)
National Alliance of Business

Roberts T. Jones, retired president of the National Alliance of Business, is a nationally recognized expert in workforce development with more than thirty years of organizational management and public policy experience in training and education. He is widely credited with helping place workforce development at the forefront of the nation’s public policy agenda. Prior to joining NAB, he was vice president of RJR Nabisco, Inc.

Jones served Presidents Reagan and George H. Bush as assistant secretary of labor. As such, he was responsible for federal workforce development and training policy addressing the significant changes in work and the workplace. He played a key role in the Hudson Institute’s landmark research project and report, Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the 21st Century, and was responsible for the Department of Labor’s SCANS Commission, which first spelled out the skills necessary for success in the workplace.

He was awarded the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award, the highest honor in the federal government, in 1986. He received his B.S. in psychology from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, and did graduate work in public administration at the American University in Washington, D.C.

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