Warren Anderson currently stay at Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York was the chairman and CEO of Union Carbide during the Bhopal gas tragedy in which more than 10,000 people died.

Anderson was born in 1921 in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York.

As the CEO of Union Carbide until his retirement in 1986, he was charged with manslaughter in the Bhopal case. Anderson had been arrested and released on bail by the Madhya Pradesh Police in Bhopal on December 7, 1984. He fled by private jet, since refusing to return to India. He was 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.

The chief judicial magistrate of India, Prakash Mohan Tiwari, issued an arrest warrant for Anderson on July 31, 2009, for his role as head of Union Carbide in the Bhopal, India, gas leak in 1984.