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The article presents the author's views on Claudio Ciborra, chair of the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics (LSE), London, England. He recounts about his last meeting in person with Claudio at a conference, which he co-chaired for an IFIP Working Group in Ireland in 2004. Claudio's presence at the conference was very notable. The event was full of discontinuities and edgy diversity. It combined people from the industry inexperienced with IFIP working groups, with academics, and it brought together a small tightly knit base community with both the industry environment and broader academic participation. He protests against seemingly all U.S.-based research, and, in particular, those people who had disappointed him by going only halfway towards some intellectual standards he quite reasonably had. The panel he directed also was a call for deep context, advocacy and "first, do no harm" for information systems research and applications. In terms of the particular contributions of Claudio as a scholar and person, nothing is more eloquent than the testimonials posted on the LSE website dedicated to his memory.