Jean Coussins, Baroness Coussins

Who is Jean Coussins, Baroness Coussins?

Jean Elizabeth Coussins, Baroness Coussins, is a British parliamentarian and an adviser on corporate responsibility.

Lady Coussins is a member of the Advertising Standards Authority, a member of the Better Regulation Commission, and was formerly the chief executive of the Portman Group, a not–for–profit organisation that promotes sensible drinking by the consumer and responsible marketing by the industry.

Her interests include:

Advisory Committee on Alcohol Problems

Non executive director and council member, Advertising Standards Authority

Member, Alcohol Education and Research Council

Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Modern Languages Group 2008-

Vice-president, Chartered Institute of Linguists

In February, 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that she would be conferred with a Life Peerage and would sit 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. She has been awarded honorary fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Lady Coussins married, in 1976, Roger J. Hamilton, with whom she has three children.