Tom Potokar
Professor Thomas Stephen Potokar OBE is chair of the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy & Research at Swansea University. He is the founder and director of the charity Interburns. Potokar has been the chief surgeon of the ICRC since 2021. During the Gaza war, Potokar shared his experiences while he was working in the European Hospital in southern Gaza, describing an over-capacity hospital with Palestinian civilians who had suffered shrapnel wounds.