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CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative Video Series: Meet the Team Leaders – Ricardo Chavarriaga

Ricardo Chavarriaga

In this final interview in the series of Meet the Team Leaders from the CLAIRE COVID-19 Initiative, we hear from Ricardo Chavarriaga, head of the CLAIRE office in Switzerland, and a senior researcher at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

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Ricardo Chavarriaga is the head of the CLAIRE office in Switzerland, and coordinator of the CLAIRE COVID-19 taskforce. In this interview you can find out why he decided to join the initiative, how the taskforce helped tackle the pandemic, and the next steps.

To find out more about this series, read our recent post and watch the first video with Emanuela Girardi. You can also watch interviews with Davide Bacciu, Ann Nowé, Jose Sousa, Marco Maratea, Manlio De Domenico and Marco Aldinucci.

You can watch the series on the CLAIRE YouTube channel.

Find out more about the CLAIRE COVID-19 task force here.
You can contact the taskforce by email here.



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