David Jones is professor of philosophy, editor of the journals Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Equinox Press, London) and East-West Connections [for style sheet click here: East-West Connections] (Phoebus Publishing, CA), editor of the Comparative and Continental Book Series (Northwestern University Press), director of the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, Visiting Professor of Chinese Philosophy at North Georgia State College and University, and Visiting Professor of Confucian Classics at Emory. From 1996 to 2008 he was the director of the Center for the Development of Asian Studies, a Southeast regional center of the Asian Studies Development Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu. Under his direction, CDAS coordinated a number of faculty development workshops and organized conferences and programs on Asia for faculty and the public in Atlanta and the Southeast. The Center has now expanded beyond his home institution into the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies and continues its work to advance Asian Studies. In addition, he is the current president of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle.

A past president of the Association of Asian Studies/Southeast Regional, he has been the president of the Asian Studies Development Program Alumni Chapter from 2005 to 2011 and reelected in 2008 and 2010. In July 2010 at the 50th Anniversary International Conference the ASDP Chapter was conferred the 2010 Outstanding East-West Center Association Chapter Award. A re-elected member of the East-West Center Association Executive Board from 2004 to 2010 and the Vice President for Chapter Development for the East-West Center Association from 2008-2010, he was awarded the East-West Center Distinguished Alumnus Award in Tokyo in 2004-2005. In 2010 he was one of fifty scholars worldwide invited to participate in the first Daoist Salon in Zhengzhou, China. In July 2010 he was invited to be a Text Seminar Leader for Approaching Dialogue with the Kyoto School at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Città di Castello, Italy. In December 2011 he was among a select group of U.S. scholars invited to participate in the Society for the Study of Religious Philosophy in Taiwan in its first International Symposium on Chinese Culture and Religious Concord.

As an author, David Jones writes mostly in the areas of Chinese and Greek Philosophy with other publications in Japanese, Buddhist, environmental, and continental philosophy. Throughout the years, he has been a consistent nominee for Distinguished Teaching, Scholarship, and Service awards.

Since 1996, he has been the Faculty Advisor for the award winning Philosophy Student Association, one of the most active student organizations in the country. When not working and traveling in Asia, he divides his time between Atlanta and Honolulu where he received his Ph.D. in comparative philosophy from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa (and where he garages his Harley Davidson). He does find he spends far too much time away from his motorcycle.