Margaret Joy Kouvelis MNZM (born 1949) is a New Zealand local-body politician.

[1] She studied at the University of Auckland, and subsequently became a teacher in Queen's High School in Dunedin.

[1] After spending time in the United Kingdom, she was a teacher at Dunstan High School in Alexandra, and then at Freyberg High School in Palmerston North, before moving to Massey University's Centre for Educational Development.

[3] She subsequently became a consultant, edited a Presbyterian magazine, farmed olives, and ran a bookshop.

[4] In 2012 she won a by-election for Mayor following the resignation of Ian McKelvie, and was re-elected unopposed in 2013, but lost the mayoralty to Helen Worboys in 2016.