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 Chief Executive of the Portman Group, a not–for–profit organisation promoting sensible drinking by consumers and responsible marketing by the drinks industry.
Her interests include:
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. She married, in 1976, Roger J. Hamilton, with whom she has three children; their marriage was dissolved in 1985.

Honours

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. She has been conferred Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
In 2013, she was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy.

Arms

Lady Coussins' coat of arms is blazoned as follows: