Jean Robert René de Cotret PC (February 20, 1944 – July 9, 1999) was a Canadian economist and politician.
He was elected as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Ottawa Centre, and was one of the few francophone MPs in the Tory caucus.
Despite the Tory victory in the 1979 general election, de Cotret lost his seat.
Mulroney appointed de Cotret to Cabinet as President of the Treasury Board.
In 1987, de Cotret became Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion, and reassumed the Treasury Board portfolio in 1989.