Geoffrey Jones taught previously at the London School of Economics and Cambridge and Reading Universities in the UK and at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He has held Visiting Professorships at Gakushuin University, Tokyo, and Universidad de los Andes, Bogota.
Elsewhere at Harvard, Jones serves on the Executive Committee of the Harvard Center for African Studies, the Faculty Committee of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and on the Policy Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.