Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles KCMG LVO (born in London, England on January 8, 1955) is a British diplomat, since 2009 the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. His surname is pronounced 'Cooper-Coles'.

The son of Sherard Hamilton Cowper-Coles and Dorothy Cowper-Coles (née Short).

He was educated at Freston Lodge School, New Beacon School, Tonbridge School and Hertford College, Oxford. He read classics at Hertford College, Oxford, and speaks fluent Arabic, Hebrew, and French and has studied Pashto.