Screening of candidates
Only guests who fit one of the 6 roles of the Atrium spec are kept.
Guests identified28,587
Excluded19,663
Selected8,924
Selected by role
AcademicNamed position at a university or research institution4,498Think tankNamed position at a think tank or public policy institute736Former officialHeld a position in a public authority: ministry, regulator, central bank, parliament551LawyerPractices law, in a firm, in-house or at the bar255Economist or consultantEconomist, analyst or adviser, in a firm or independent873CommentatorAnalyzes current affairs or ideas for the general public: columnist, essayist2,011
Why the others are excluded
People
4,513 people
| Person | Decision | Role or reason | Why | Podcasts | Appearances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Galloway Professor of Marketing · NYU Stern School of Business | Selected | Academic | Professor Marketing NYU Stern. | 49 | 113 |
| Jonathan Haidt social psychologist, NYU professor · New York University | Selected | Academic | Social psychologist, NYU professor at New York University. | 31 | 40 |
| Yuval Noah Harari Professor of History · Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Selected | Academic | Professor of history at Hebrew University, bestselling author. | 28 | 37 |
| Adam Grant author and organizational psychology professor | Selected | Academic | Organizational psychology professor. | 27 | 74 |
| Carlo Masala Militärexperte · Bundeswehr University Munich | Selected | Academic | Prof. Dr. for International Politics. | 27 | 64 |
| Arthur Brooks William Henry Bloomberg Professor · Harvard Kennedy School | Selected | Academic | Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. | 25 | 50 |
| Maja Göpel Ökonomin · Leuphana Universität Lüneburg | Selected | Academic | Prof. Dr. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. | 25 | 40 |
| Chris Miller former Secretary of Defense · Tufts | Selected | Academic | Professor at Tufts, author of Chip War. | 25 | 38 |
| Quinn Slobodian Professor of History · Wellesley College | Selected | Academic | Professor of History at Wellesley College. | 25 | 35 |
| Tyler Cowen economist and professor · George Mason University | Selected | Academic | Economist and professor at George Mason University. | 24 | 27 |
| Steven Pinker Psychologe · Harvard University | Selected | Academic | Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. | 24 | 25 |
| Amy Edmondson Harvard Business School professor · Harvard Business School | Selected | Academic | Professor, Harvard Business School. | 24 | 25 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson astrophysicist · Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Centre for Earth and Space | Selected | Academic | Astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium. | 22 | 39 |
| Niall Ferguson Historian | Selected | Academic | Historian at Harvard University and University of Oxford. | 22 | 38 |
| Daron Acemoglu Institute Professor · Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Selected | Academic | Institute Professor MIT. | 22 | 27 |
| Avi Loeb Professor · Harvard University | Selected | Academic | Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. | 21 | 40 |
| Robert Sapolsky professor of biology and neurology · Stanford University | Selected | Academic | Professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University. | 19 | 94 |
| Nick Bostrom philosopher | Selected | Academic | Philosopher at University of Oxford. | 19 | 21 |
| Carlo Rovelli Physiker und Autor | Selected | Academic | Physicist, university teacher, Imperial College London Yale. | 18 | 26 |
| Timothy Snyder Auteur et historien | Selected | Academic | Professor of history at Yale University, author. | 18 | 22 |
| Jean Twenge professor of psychology · San Diego State University | Selected | Academic | Professor of psychology at San Diego State University. | 18 | 20 |
| Anil Seth Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience · University of Sussex | Selected | Academic | Professor, University of Sussex. | 18 | 19 |
| Jake Sullivan Kissinger Professor · Harvard Kennedy School | Selected | Academic | Professor Harvard Kennedy, former Security Adviser. | 17 | 32 |
| Francis Fukuyama professor of political science · Stanford University | Selected | Academic | Professor of political science at Stanford. | 17 | 21 |
| Gary Marcus cognitive scientist, author, and entrepreneur | Selected | Academic | Psycholinguist, New York University. | 17 | 20 |
| Cal Newport auteur | Selected | Academic | Computer scientist, university teacher at Georgetown, non-fiction writer. | 16 | 25 |
| Nita Farahany Law professor and bioethicist · Duke University | Selected | Academic | Law professor and bioethicist at Duke University. | 16 | 22 |
| Sean Carroll theoretical physicist and philosopher | Selected | Academic | University teacher physicist at Johns Hopkins and Caltech. | 16 | 22 |
| Peter Singer moral philosopher | Selected | Academic | Australian moral philosopher and university teacher. | 16 | 19 |
| Edward Fishman senior research scholar · Center for Global Energy Policy, Columbia University | Selected | Academic | Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University. | 16 | 18 |
| Justin Wolfers professor of public policy and economics · University of Michigan | Selected | Academic | Professor of political economy, University of Michigan. | 15 | 42 |
| Arthur C. Brooks professor · Harvard | Selected | Academic | Professor, Harvard University. | 15 | 18 |
| Mary Beard Professor Dame | Selected | Academic | Professor Dame, academic title. | 15 | 18 |
| Ethan Mollick Wharton professor · Wharton | Selected | Academic | Professor Wharton. | 15 | 17 |
| Alan Dershowitz author · Harvard Law School | Selected | Academic | Professor emeritus, Harvard Law School and attorney. | 14 | 97 |
| Matt Abrahams lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business · Stanford Graduate School of Business | Selected | Academic | Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business. | 14 | 90 |
| Mark Galeotti historian and Russia-watcher · RUSI | Selected | Academic | Honorary professor at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. | 14 | 28 |
| Gabriel Felbermayr WIFO-Chef · WIFO | Selected | Academic | Prof. Economist and economic adviser, explicit title. | 14 | 19 |
| Venki Ramakrishnan Microbiologist | Selected | Academic | Molecular biologist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. | 14 | 18 |
| Dr. Brian Keating cosmologist, professor of physics | Selected | Academic | Cosmologist, physics professor. | 13 | 235 |
| Rob de Wijk Hoogleraar · Universiteit Leiden | Selected | Academic | Professor of international relations, Leiden. | 13 | 40 |
| Dacher Keltner psychologist · Stanford | Selected | Academic | Psychology professor, UC Berkeley and Stanford. | 13 | 28 |
| Steve Vladeck professor · Georgetown Law | Selected | Academic | Professor at University of Texas School of Law. | 13 | 26 |
| Sönke Neitzel Militärhistoriker · Universität Potsdam | Selected | Academic | Military historian at University of Potsdam. | 13 | 24 |
| Andrew Huberman professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology · Stanford | Selected | Academic | Professor at Stanford University. | 13 | 20 |
| Katja Hoyer historian | Selected | Academic | Historian at King's College London. | 13 | 20 |
| Philip Goff author, philosopher, professor · Durham University | Selected | Academic | Professor of philosophy at Durham University. | 13 | 20 |
| Ali Ansari Professor · University of St Andrews | Selected | Academic | Professor, University of St Andrews. | 13 | 19 |
| Frans Osinga professor oorlogsstudies | Selected | Academic | Professor of war studies. | 13 | 19 |
| Rana Mitter Professor · University of Oxford | Selected | Academic | Professor, University of Oxford. | 13 | 16 |