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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bram Vandenbroeck Manager | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bram Verbruggen Weatherman | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bram Vervliet Professor · KU Leuven | Selected | Academic | Prof. dr. KU Leuven. | 1 | 1 |
| Branden Hudson Owner of SBY MMA and Fitness | Excluded | Business executive | Owner of SBY MMA and Fitness. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Hodge Historian and planchette collector | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Johnson Mayor-elect · Chicago | Excluded | Serving politician | Mayor-elect Chicago Brandon Johnson, politician. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Mitchell Medic | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Pezely A&M Consumer and Retail Group | Selected | Economist or consultant | A&M Consumer and Retail Group, consulting firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Rooks CEO · Rockstar Capital Group | Excluded | Business executive | CEO of Rockstar Capital Group. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Van Grack Contributing Editor · Lawfare | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Warren Barcode Group | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role. | 1 | 1 |
| Brandon Zick Chief Investment Officer · Ceres Farmland Fund (now part of Wisdom Tree) | Excluded | Business executive | Chief Investment Officer at Ceres Farmland Fund. | 1 | 1 |
| Brankele Frank Strategy consultant | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Branko Marcetic | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Braulio García Jaén Journalist · EL PAÍS | Selected | Commentator | Ideas supplement journalist at EL PAIS. | 1 | 1 |
| Braxton McCoy Veteran, rancher, public lands advocate | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brecht Van de Vyvere | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bregje Deben Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of nonfiction book on the price of coffee. | 1 | 1 |
| Bregje Hofstede Writer | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Author of novel Oersoep, fiction author. | 1 | 1 |
| Brenda Donohue Woman in the Wild | Excluded | Journalist | Radio and television presenter according to Wikidata, host not commentator. | 1 | 1 |
| Brenda Lodigiani | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brenda Mathijsen Researcher | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role. | 1 | 1 |
| Brenda Stevenson | Selected | Academic | Professor of History at UCLA. | 1 | 1 |
| Brendan Burchell Professor · University of Cambridge | Selected | Academic | Professor, University of Cambridge. | 1 | 1 |
| Brendan Farrell | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brendan Hartnett | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brendan Hunt Co-creator, writer, and star of Ted Lasso · Apple News Original | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brendan Kane Managing Partner at Hook Point | Selected | Economist or consultant | Managing Partner Hook Point, consulting firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Brendan Ogle Activist and trade unionist | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Activist and trade unionist, organization activist. | 1 | 1 |
| Brent Bozell Media Research Center | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brent Buchanan Pollster | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Pollster, not an economist. | 1 | 1 |
| Brent Friedman Creator | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Screenwriter, audiovisual creator, undefined role. | 1 | 1 |
| Brent Johnson | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Activity outside the six roles. | 1 | 1 |
| Brent Neiman Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics · University of Chicago's Booth School of Business | Selected | Academic | Professor of economics at the University of Chicago. | 1 | 1 |
| Bret Taylor Current chairman of OpenAI | Excluded | Business executive | Current president of OpenAI. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Adcock Founder & CEO · Figure | Excluded | Business executive | Founder and CEO of Figure. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Anderson Reporter for New York Times Food and Cooking | Excluded | Journalist | Food reporter New York Times | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Benson Associate Professor of Political Science · Vanderbilt University | Selected | Academic | Associate professor of political science at Vanderbilt. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Connellan | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Eagleson | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Favre Hall of Fame quarterback | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Finlay Microbiologist | Selected | Academic | Microbiologist university teacher at University of British Columbia. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Goldstein Special Advisor to the Chancellor · Vanderbilt University | Selected | Academic | Special advisor to the chancellor at Vanderbilt. | 1 | 1 |
| Brett Murphy Reporter · ProPublica | Excluded | Journalist | Reporter ProPublica | 1 | 1 |
| Brian Allen | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Brian Armstrong Co-founder and CEO · Coinbase | Excluded | Business executive | Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. | 1 | 1 |
| Brian Bernasek Co-Head of Americas Corporate Private Equity · Carlyle | Excluded | Business executive | Co-Director at Carlyle Private Equity. | 1 | 1 |
| Brian Boxer Wachler MD | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Physician influencer on social media. | 1 | 1 |
| Brian Brøndum Møller | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role. | 1 | 1 |
| Brian Cameron Lucky Astrophysicist · Universidad de Oxford | Selected | Academic | Astrophysicist at University of Oxford. | 1 | 1 |