Llyr Jones

Llyr Jones joined Chemring on 8 February 2021 as Group Strategy and Corporate Development Director. Llyr has been working within the defence, national security and aerospace sectors for over 30 years. His career spans five continents, and specific international assignments have included Japan and France. Over this time, he has held a wide range of leadership posts focusing particularly on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business development, industrial policy, and international affairs.

Previously he has been a Board Member of Canning House - the UK’s leading forum for informed comment, contacts and debate on Latin American politics, economy and business, a Policy Fellow and Development Board member at the Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge University, a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Advanced Manufacturing and a Non-Executive Director of the Strategic Planning Society.

Llyr is a Chartered Director and Chartered Engineer as well as Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He holds degrees from several UK universities – including a PhD from the University of Southampton and an MBA from the Loughborough University School of Business and Economics.