Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.

Boisfeuillet (Bo) Jones, Jr. (/ˈboʊfəleɪ/ BOH-fə-lay) (born 1946) was president and chief executive officer of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in Arlington, Virginia. He was former Vice Chairman of The Washington Post Company and Chairman of The Washington Post board from 2008 until December 31, 2011. From 2000 to 2008 he was publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post.

Jones was born in Atlanta in 1946 to Boisfeuillet Jones, Sr., a philanthropist, and Laura Coit Jones. Anne Baynon Register Jones became his step-mother following the death of his mother and the marriage of his father to Anne Register. Jones went to high school at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and later received an A.B. in 1968 from Harvard College, where he was president of the Harvard Crimson and a member of the Spee Club. At both St. Albans and Harvard he was two years behind Donald E. Graham, his future employer. He attended Exeter College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a D.Phil. in modern history. He received his J.D. in 1974 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.