Jean Elizabeth Coussins, Baroness Coussins, FCIL (born 26 October 1950) is a British parliamentarian and an adviser on corporate responsibility.

[1] Jean Coussins was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1973.

[2] She married Roger J. Hamilton in 1976, with whom she has two children; their marriage was dissolved in 1985.

[3] In February 2007, the House of Lords Appointments Commission recommended she should be conferred with a Life Peerage as a Crossbencher in Parliament; her title was gazetted as Baroness Coussins, of Whitehall Park in the London Borough of Islington on 23 March 2007.

[4] She has been conferred Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Linguists[5] and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.