Screening of candidates
Only guests who fit one of the 6 roles of the Atrium spec are kept. This page covers every guest of the POC podcasts, all countries together: screening comes first, and the country of origin is looked up afterwards, only for the selected experts.
Guests identified28,551
Excluded19,870
Selected8,681Of which 2,556 English-speaking world, 4,579 European Union, 1,546 other or unknown country
Selected by role
AcademicNamed position at a university or research institution4,334Think tankNamed position at a think tank or public policy institute730Former officialHeld a position in a public authority: ministry, regulator, central bank, parliament531LawyerPractices law, in a firm, in-house or at the bar251Economist or consultantEconomist, analyst or adviser, in a firm or independent865CommentatorAnalyzes current affairs or ideas for the general public: columnist, essayist1,970
Why the others are excluded
People
27,693 people · the 858 guests named by their first name only are counted above but not listed
| Person | Decision | Role or reason | Why | Podcasts | Appearances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Stevenson | Selected | Economist or consultant | British economist, former financier. | 20 | 29 |
| Karen Hao Reporter · Wall Street Journal | Selected | Commentator | Reporter Wall Street Journal, author Empire of AI | 20 | 23 |
| Fiona Hill Former White House official · Brookings | Selected | Think tank | Former White House official, currently at Brookings. | 20 | 23 |
| Rutger Bregman Writer, historian · School for Moral Ambition | Selected | Commentator | Author historian. | 20 | 20 |
| Robert Sapolsky Professor of biology and neurology · Stanford University | Selected | Academic | Professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University. | 19 | 94 |
| Claudia Major Security expert · German Marshall Fund | Selected | Think tank | Security expert at German Marshall Fund, think tank. | 19 | 55 |
| Ed Zitron Host · Better Offline | Selected | Commentator | Host of Better Offline, analysis podcast. | 19 | 39 |
| Christian Lindner FDP leader | Selected | Former official | Former Federal Finance Minister (former minister). | 19 | 21 |
| David Epstein Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of bestseller Range. | 19 | 21 |
| Nick Bostrom Philosopher | Selected | Academic | Philosopher at University of Oxford. | 19 | 21 |
| Naomi Klein Liberal writer and activist | Selected | Commentator | Liberal writer and activist, political and social analyst. | 19 | 21 |
| Tim Ferriss Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of self-development bestsellers. | 18 | 239 |
| Glenn Greenwald Journalist | Selected | Commentator | Investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner and author. | 18 | 63 |
| Steve Bannon Former White House chief strategist | Selected | Former official | Former White House chief strategist. | 18 | 40 |
| Sarah Longwell Author · The Bulwark | Selected | Commentator | Columnist and author for The Bulwark. | 18 | 37 |
| Marjorie Taylor Greene Former Congresswoman | Selected | Former official | Former Congresswoman. | 18 | 32 |
| Carlo Rovelli Physicist and author | Selected | Academic | Physicist, university teacher, Imperial College London Yale. | 18 | 26 |
| Timothy Snyder Author and historian | 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 |
| Hillary Clinton Former Secretary of State | Selected | Former official | Former Secretary of State. | 18 | 20 |
| Anil Seth Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience · University of Sussex | Selected | Academic | Professor, University of Sussex. | 18 | 19 |
| Jack Posobiec Author · Turning Point USA | Selected | Commentator | Author analyst and contributor Turning Point USA. | 17 | 106 |
| Nico Lange Security expert · Munich Security Conference | Selected | Think tank | Security expert, Senior Fellow at Munich Security Conference. | 17 | 85 |
| Cenk Uygur The Young Turks | Selected | Commentator | Current affairs debater on Young Turks. | 17 | 39 |
| Dan Snow Historian | Selected | Commentator | Historian and broadcaster. | 17 | 33 |
| Jake Sullivan Kissinger Professor · Harvard Kennedy School | Selected | Academic | Professor Harvard Kennedy, former Security Adviser. | 17 | 32 |
| Florence Gaub Futurist · NATO Defense College | Selected | Think tank | Strategy expert and director at NATO Defense College. | 17 | 30 |
| Ben Hodges Former Commanding General · US Army Europe | Selected | Former official | Former general commanding U.S. Army Europe. | 17 | 28 |
| Liz Truss Former Prime Minister · Conservative Party | Selected | Former official | Former Prime Minister of United Kingdom. | 17 | 28 |
| Andrew Lownie Royal historian | Selected | Commentator | Royal historian and biographer. | 17 | 27 |
| Simon Sebag Montefiore Historian | Selected | Commentator | Prize-winning historian author writing on geopolitical issues. | 17 | 25 |
| Kevin Kelly Author and Wired co-founder | Selected | Commentator | Author and Wired co-founder, essayist. | 17 | 23 |
| 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 |
| Jeffrey Sachs Professor | Selected | Economist or consultant | Public policy expert and independent economist. | 16 | 241 |
| Bret Weinstein PhD · DarkHorse Podcast | Selected | Commentator | Evolutionary biologist, co-host of DarkHorse Podcast. | 16 | 229 |
| Miranda Devine New York Post columnist and host of Pod Force One | Selected | Commentator | Columnist at New York Post. | 16 | 78 |
| Mart de Kruif Former commander of the Land Forces | Selected | Former official | Retired general, former commander. | 16 | 57 |
| Daniel Lacalle Economist, writer, science communicator · Tressis | Selected | Economist or consultant | Independent economist, public communicator at Tressis. | 16 | 48 |
| Mo Gawdat | Selected | Commentator | Entrepreneur and writer. | 16 | 41 |
| Don Lemon | Selected | Commentator | Opinion journalist at CNN. | 16 | 33 |
| Coleman Hughes | Selected | Commentator | Columnist, pundit, podcaster and non-fiction writer. | 16 | 32 |
| George Conway Congressional candidate | Selected | Lawyer | Lawyer according to functions. | 16 | 29 |
| Cal Newport Author | 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 |
| David Petraeus General · United States Army | Selected | Former official | General and former CIA director. | 16 | 21 |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali Writer, activist and former politician | Selected | Commentator | Writer and activist, former politician. | 16 | 19 |
| 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 |