Professor Thomas Stephen Potokar OBE[1] (born January 1964) is chair of the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy & Research at Swansea University. He is the founder and director of the charity Interburns.[2][3]
Potokar has been the chief surgeon of the ICRC since 2021.[4] During the 2023 Israel–Hamas 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.[5][6]