Warren Anderson (chairman)

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Warren Anderson (born 1921) was the chairman of Union Carbide during the Bhopal Disaster that took place in a plant belonging to an Indian subsidiary, Union Carbide India, Limited, in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Anderson was born in 1921 in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York to Swedish immigrants. He was named for the President of the United States Warren Harding. He later attended the Naval Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he played on the Pre-Flight football team with Otto Graham, who later enjoyed success with the NFL's Cleveland Browns.

As the CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, who retired in 1986, was charged with manslaughter in the Bhopal case and declared a fugitive from justice by the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal on February 1, 1992 for failing to appear at the court hearings in a culpable homicide case in which he was named the chief defendant.

He was found by Greenpeace living a "life of luxury" in the Hamptons, despite the extradition treaty between the US and India. Justice for Bhopal Gas victims Truth about Union Carbide and DOW Chemicals