Tom Potokar

Professor Thomas Stephen Potokar OBE (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.

Potokar has been the chief surgeon of the ICRC since 2021. 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.