Jorma Juhani Panula (born 10 August 1930) is a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher of conducting.

He has mentored many Finnish conductors, such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä, Klaus Mäkelä and Tarmo Peltokoski.

His teachers included Leo Funtek, Dean Dixon, Albert Wolff and Franco Ferrara.

[2] As a pedagogue, Panula has been a teacher and mentor to many Finnish and other conductors, including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mikko Franck, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Osmo Vänskä,[3] Dalia Stasevska, Ricardo Chiavetta, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Klaus Mäkelä and Tarmo Peltokoski.

Panula has taught conducting courses all over the world, including in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Moscow, New York, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ottawa and Sydney.