Jean Sutherland Fleming ONZM CRSNZ (born 1952) is a New Zealand reproductive biologist, science communication advocate and environmentalist.

[3] She then completed a PhD in reproductive biology at the University of Otago in 1986, focusing on the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone.

[3] Fleming joined the University of Otago as a lecturer in physiology in 1994, working on ovulation and ovarian cancer.

[4] In 2000, Fleming was appointed to New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (RCGM).

[5] In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.