The Bhopal Medical Appeal Team

Annie Murray - Chair of Trustees

Annie Murray is an acclaimed author with an educational background in literature, psychology of religion and journalism in the charity sector. She has been a fundraiser for the BMA since 2009 and also involved in campaigning, including participation in the 'Die-In' protest against Dow's sponsorship of the Olympics in London in 2012.

Dr. Clare Barker - Trustee

Clare Barker is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Leeds. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of contemporary and postcolonial literature, medical humanities, and disability studies. Prior to joining the board, she nominated the Bhopal Medical Appeal as a partner on the Wellcome Trust-funded LivingBodiesObjects project. During the sixth-month residency, she and the rest of the LBO team worked with the charity to raise awareness of water contamination in Bhopal.

Melanie Hadida - Trustee

Melanie Hadida is a nutritional consultant with extensive experience in the non-profit sector. Originally from Montreal, Canada, after university she moved to Bhopal where she regularly volunteered at the Sambhavna clinic and discovered her love of cooking and nutrition. In 2011 she moved to the UK and worked in the non-profit sector, including working with the Bhopal Medical Appeal as a fundraiser. During her time with the charity she ran nutrition and yoga events, organised exhibitions, and helped campaign against Dow Chemical's sponsorship of the 2012 London Olympics.

Dr. Sumohon Matilal - Trustee

An Associate Professor at the Sussex University Business School, Sumohon’s research interests lie in critical accounting. Questioning the efficacy of the ‘one size fits all’ approach of accounting schemes in representing organisational reality, Sumohon has examined corporate accounting against the backdrop of catastrophic scenarios such as UCC's Bhopal disaster, and his research advocates the need for restoring plurivocality to accounting practice.

Avaes Mohammad – Trustee

Working across poetry, theatre and performance, with a background in the chemical sciences, artist-alchemist Avaes Mohammad has performed on stages across the UK, Europe, India, Pakistan and South Africa. His poem Bhopal, as commissioned by BBC Radio 4 won an Amnesty International Media Award.