Erkki Kourula

Erkki Antero Kourula (born 12 June 1948) is a Finnish judge who served in the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Kourula was elected for an initial term of three years in the first election of 2003, then reelected in 2006 for nine more years. In 1979, he was appointed as a judge of first instance in Finland. He was also the head of the Finnish delegation to the Rome Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, where the ICC's formation was initially approved. He and his wife Pirkko have two children. He speaks Finnish, English, French, Russian, Swedish and German.