Jean Coussins, Baroness Coussins

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Jean Elizabeth Coussins, Baroness Coussins, is an adviser on corporate responsibility and a member of the Better Regulation Commission. Lady Coussins is a member of the Advertising Standards Authority and was until recently 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 (broadcast and non broadcast media), Advertising Standards Authority
Member, Alcohol Education and Research Council

In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that she would be made a life peer and would sit as a Crossbencher, and her peerage was gazetted as Baroness Coussins, of Whitehall Park in the London Borough of Islington, on 23 March 2007.