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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimberly Clausing Professor at UCLA | Selected | Academic | Professor at UCLA. | 4 | 5 |
| Lawrence Douglas James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought · Amherst College | Selected | Academic | Professor James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College. | 4 | 5 |
| Lluís Montoliu | Selected | Academic | Researcher at CSIC, public research organization. | 4 | 5 |
| Mark Kimmitt Retired General | Selected | Former official | Retired general, former military official. | 4 | 5 |
| Martin Griffiths Former UN undersecretary | Selected | Former official | Former UN undersecretary for humanitarian affairs. | 4 | 5 |
| Mary Ziegler Law professor · Yale Law Journal | Selected | Academic | Law professor at Yale Law Journal. | 4 | 5 |
| Matt Levine Bloomberg Opinion | Selected | Commentator | Bloomberg Opinion. | 4 | 5 |
| Matthew Yglesias Author · Slow Boring | Selected | Commentator | Author of Slow Boring newsletter. | 4 | 5 |
| Michael Ignatieff Author, researcher | Selected | Commentator | Author and researcher, writer-scholar. | 4 | 5 |
| Muriel Asseburg Bruno Kreisky Forum | Selected | Think tank | Bruno Kreisky Forum (Austrian think tank). | 4 | 5 |
| Nazareth Castellanos Neuroscientist, science communicator, author | Selected | Academic | Neuroscientist researcher at Complutense University. | 4 | 5 |
| Noa Tishby Israel's former Special Envoy for Combatting Anti-Semitism | Selected | Former official | Israel's former Special Envoy for Combatting Anti-Semitism - Israel. | 4 | 5 |
| Paul Frissen Professor · Tilburg University | Selected | Academic | Prof. dr. Tilburg University. | 4 | 5 |
| Peter Altmaier Former federal economics minister · CDU | Selected | Former official | Former CDU Minister of Economics. | 4 | 5 |
| Raj Chetty Professor · Harvard University | Selected | Academic | Professor, Harvard University institution. | 4 | 5 |
| Robin Sharma Author | Selected | Commentator | Author, Wikidata: self-help writer (nonfiction). | 4 | 5 |
| Rémi Lefebvre Professor of political science · University of Lille | Selected | Academic | Professor of political science at the University of Lille. | 4 | 5 |
| Samira Rafaela Former MEP | Selected | Former official | Former Member of European Parliament, former government official. | 4 | 5 |
| Sophie Scott Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience · UCL | Selected | Academic | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. | 4 | 5 |
| Stephen Breyer Former Supreme Court Justice | Selected | Former official | Former Supreme Court Justice. | 4 | 5 |
| Stephen Walt Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs · Harvard Kennedy School | Selected | Academic | Robert and Renee Belfer Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. | 4 | 5 |
| Steve Webb Sir | Selected | Former official | Former minister and British MP until 2015. | 4 | 5 |
| Sylvie Matelly Director of the Jacques Delors Institute · Institut Jacques Delors | Selected | Think tank | Director of Jacques Delors Institute. | 4 | 5 |
| Toby Nangle Asset manager | Selected | Economist or consultant | Asset manager and FT contributor. | 4 | 5 |
| William von Hippel Former professor of psychology · Ohio State University | Selected | Academic | Professor of psychology, formerly at Ohio State, active in university. | 4 | 5 |
| Zoe Gardner Independent researcher on migration policy | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Independent migration policy researcher; the linked profile is a bare University of Leicester researcher, and another namesake is a policy advocate and writer. | 4 | 5 |
| Álvaro Martín Popularizer | Selected | Commentator | Science communicator. | 4 | 5 |
| Alexander Stubb Politician and professor · Kansallisen Kokoomuksen | Excluded | Serving politician | President of Finland in office. | 4 | 4 |
| Allison J. Pugh Researcher · Johns Hopkins University | Selected | Academic | Professor at Princeton University. | 4 | 4 |
| Carsten Linnemann CDU general secretary | Excluded | Serving politician | CDU secretary general, political official. | 4 | 4 |
| Carsten Maschmeyer Entrepreneur | Excluded | Business executive | Entrepreneur Investor Bestselling author, entrepreneur. | 4 | 4 |
| Cecilia Sala Journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist. | 4 | 4 |
| Emmanuel Macron President of the French Republic · France | Excluded | Serving politician | President of the French Republic, politician in office. | 4 | 4 |
| Eric Schmitt Lawyer, formerly the Attorney General of Missouri · United States Senate | Excluded | Serving politician | Senator in office. | 4 | 4 |
| Erna Solberg Høyre leader | Excluded | Serving politician | Party leader of Høyre, currently in office. | 4 | 4 |
| Harley Finkelstein President · Shopify | Excluded | Business executive | President of Shopify: CEO in office. | 4 | 4 |
| Ines Schwerdtner Co-head · Die Linkspartei | Excluded | Serving politician | Co-Chair of Die Linke, in office. | 4 | 4 |
| Javad El Bakali Humour prize winner | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 4 | 4 |
| Kjetil Alstadheim Political editor · Aftenposten | Excluded | Journalist | Politics editor, Aftenposten, not an analyst. | 4 | 4 |
| Mark Zuckerberg Founder · Meta | Excluded | Business executive | Founder and CEO of Meta/Facebook. | 4 | 4 |
| Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen Professor · Institut for statskundskab, Københavns Universitet | Selected | Academic | Professor at the University of Copenhagen. | 4 | 4 |
| Nish Kumar Comedian · Pod Save the UK | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 4 | 4 |
| Olof Lundh Football journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Football journalist. | 4 | 4 |
| Per Johansson Manager · Origo Fonder | Selected | Economist or consultant | Fund manager at Origo Fonder. | 4 | 4 |
| Sam Altman CEO · OpenAI | Excluded | Business executive | CEO of OpenAI. | 4 | 4 |
| Ted Cruz Senator · United States Senate | Excluded | Serving politician | US Senator in office. | 4 | 4 |
| Thomas Bollen Financial journalist and editor at Follow the Money | Excluded | Journalist | Investigation journalist at Follow the Money. | 4 | 4 |
| Bettany Hughes Author | Selected | Commentator | Historian and author. | 4 | 4 |
| Albin Kjellberg Sparprofil · Investera Mera | Selected | Economist or consultant | Engineer, investor, and independent financial analyst. | 4 | 4 |
| Andrew Brodsky Professor · McCombs School of Business | Selected | Academic | Management professor at McCombs School. | 4 | 4 |