Who is John Griffiths-Jones? - Telegraph John Griffiths-Jones joined KPMG in 1975. He spent 11 years in auditing in London, including a year in professional practice. His clients covered a wide range of sectors, and included several listed companies. His specialisation was in the shipping industry. Mr Griffiths-Jones spent 15 years in corporate finance, joining at its inception in 1986. He made partner in 1987 and was acting as a mid-market M&A practitioner and government advisor on privatisations and PFI before running the function in the UK and chairing the European network. He had various overseas client projects in, inter alia, the US, Sweden, Bahrain, Greece and Hong Kong. Mr Griffiths-Jones spent four years as chief executive of the UK firm and on October 1, 2006, he became the chairman and senior partner of KPMG's UK operation, replacing Mike Rake. On October 1, 2007, he became joint chairman of KPMG Europe and on October 1, 2008, the EMA chairman. Mr Griffiths-Jones is the chairman of The Every Child a Chance Trust. He was educated at Eton and holds an MA in economics from Cambridge. He has also spent time in the Royal Green Jackets. Mr Griffiths-Jones told the FT in 2010 that the Coalition "is quite clever, as long as they can hold it together. The Conservatives had a very pro-business agenda and if they can genuinely get the continued support of the Liberals it has a much greater likelihood of stability. On the economy, he added that "it is incredibly important that we close the fiscal gap. The nirvana way out is to get the economy to grow and that is what they should concentrate on doing... The key is to get London working and the City pre-eminent in financial services . . . Rebalancing [towards manufacturing] by just chopping away at the big bit seems to me a pretty foolhardy way of growing the economy.