Pauliine Koskelo

About Pauliine Koskelo

Pauliine Koskelo was born 1956 in Salo, Finland. Having completed her legal studies at the University of Helsinki, she served at the Finnish Ministry of Justice as Advisor and Senior Adviser for Legislative Affairs, working on various legislative reforms in the fields of civil, commercial and insolvency law as well as international legal co-operation, including matters relating to Finland's European integration. In 1995, she joined the Legal Directorate of the European Investment Bank, as Head of Division, Assistant General Counsel and Co-Director, mainly in charge of institutional legal issues. In 2000, she was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Finland, and in 2005, she was appointed President of the Supreme Court, in which capacity she served from 2006 to 2015. Since 2016, she is Judge of the European Court of Human Rights. She was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order or the White Rose of Finland (2009). Sh holds the following honorary doctorates: Dr. econ.h.c., Hanken University, School of Economics, Helsinki (2009); Dr. jur.h.c., Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki (2010); Dr. jur.h.c., Faculty of Law, University of Turku (2015). She received the Defensor Legis Award of the Finnish Bar Association (2015).