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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Pettitt Professor | Selected | Academic | Prof., professor. | 2 | 2 |
| Paul Scully Former Minister for London | Selected | Former official | Former Minister for London. | 2 | 2 |
| Paul van Hooft Defense specialist and nuclear weapons expert · HCSS | Selected | Think tank | Defense specialist at HCSS. | 2 | 2 |
| Paweł Skibiński Professor | Selected | Academic | Professor. | 2 | 2 |
| Paweł Zerka Senior policy fellow · European Council on Foreign Relations | Selected | Think tank | Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. | 2 | 2 |
| Pedro Ortega Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of 'Tarot: Significado e historia', historical non-fiction. | 2 | 2 |
| Pekka Sauri Professor of working life, author | Selected | Academic et Former official | Work-life professor, former deputy mayor. | 2 | 2 |
| Perth Tolle Founder · Life and Liberty indexes | Selected | Economist or consultant | Founder of Life and Liberty indexes. | 2 | 2 |
| Peta Greenfield Podcast host and author | Selected | Commentator | Podcast host and author, analyst. | 2 | 2 |
| Peter Brimelow | Selected | Commentator | Journalist, writer, financial analyst. | 2 | 2 |
| Peter Hyman Former adviser | Selected | Former official | Former adviser to Keir Starmer. | 2 | 2 |
| Peter Iwaniewicz Animal columnist · FALTER | Selected | Commentator | Animal columnist at FALTER, writes columns. | 2 | 2 |
| Peter Lagerlof Manager · Lannebo | Selected | Economist or consultant | Fund manager at Lannebo. | 2 | 2 |
| Peter Lodahl Professor of quantum optics and quantum technology · Niels Bohr Institutet | Selected | Academic | Professor at Niels Bohr Institute (research institute). | 2 | 2 |
| Peter Power Executive Director · UNICEF Ireland | Selected | Former official | Irish politician, former Teachta Dála. | 2 | 2 |
| Peter Vermeersch | Selected | Academic | Full professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. | 2 | 2 |
| Petter Bae Brandtzæg Professor at the University of Oslo and chief scientist at Sintef Digital · Universitetet i Oslo, Sintef Digital | Selected | Academic | Professor at University of Oslo and researcher at Sintef Digital. | 2 | 2 |
| Philip Wendt Analyst · Aktiespararna | Selected | Economist or consultant | Analyst at Aktiespararna, stock analyst. | 2 | 2 |
| Pierre Haroche Professor of European and international politics · Lille Catholic University | Selected | Academic | Professor of politics, Catholic University of Lille. | 2 | 2 |
| Pierre-Benoît Roumagnou Historian · Sorbonne University | Selected | Academic | Historian at Sorbonne University. | 2 | 2 |
| Piotr Durka Professor in the physics department · Universität Warschau | Selected | Academic | Prof., University of Warsaw. | 2 | 2 |
| Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Det Sociale Netværk/headspace Danmark | Selected | Former official | Former prime minister, former minister. | 2 | 2 |
| Maja Soboleva Institut für Philosophie an der Uni Marburg | Selected | Academic | Institut fuer Philosophie Uni Marburg, professor. | 2 | 2 |
| Oliver Bendel Information ethicist | Selected | Academic | Professor and ethicist of information. | 2 | 2 |
| Quita Muis Assistant professor of Sociology · Tilburg University | Selected | Academic | Lecturer in Sociology at Tilburg University. | 2 | 2 |
| Rachel Ziemba Adjunct Senior Fellow · Center for a New American Security | Selected | Think tank | Adjunct Senior Fellow at CNAS. | 2 | 2 |
| Rainer Weiss Physicist | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2025. Introduced as physicist discussing LIGO and gravitational waves; Wikidata: American physicist at MIT (1932 to 2025), episodes predate death. | 2 | 2 |
| Ray Madoff Legal scholar | Selected | Academic | Professor of Law at Boston College. | 2 | 2 |
| Rick Stroud Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of history books. | 2 | 2 |
| Robert Rix Dr. | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Guest called Dr. or professor in Greenland Viking episodes; the profile is a Copenhagen professor of English. Generic title, no field match. | 2 | 2 |
| Roderick Beaton Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London | Selected | Academic | Emeritus professor of Koraes at King's College London. | 2 | 2 |
| Roger Pérez Physiologist · Duke University | Selected | Academic | Physiologist at Duke University. | 2 | 2 |
| Rudy van Belkom Director · Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek | Selected | Think tank | Foundation director of technology foresight. | 2 | 2 |
| Russell Foster Director · Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, University of Oxford | Selected | Academic | Director of Institute at University of Oxford. | 2 | 2 |
| Russell Miller Constitutional lawyer | Selected | Academic | Constitutionalist, professor of law at Washington and Lee. | 2 | 2 |
| Ryan Hopkins Future of Well-being Leader · Deloitte | Selected | Economist or consultant | Future of Well-being Leader at Deloitte. | 2 | 2 |
| Sandra Meeuwsen Sport philosopher | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Dutch sport philosopher; the linked profile only says Dutch scientist and professor, with no field or employer to confirm the match. | 2 | 2 |
| Sanna Marin Former prime minister of Finland | Selected | Former official | Former prime minister of Finland. | 2 | 2 |
| Sanya Carley Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director · Kleinman Center | Selected | Academic | Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director, Kleinman Center. | 2 | 2 |
| Sara Imari Walker Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist | Selected | Academic | University teacher, astrobiologist at Arizona State University. | 2 | 2 |
| Sarah Bracke Sociologist | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Announced as sociologist and professor, but the profile only says university teacher at Amsterdam, with no field to confirm the match. | 2 | 2 |
| Sasha Ayad Co-author | Selected | Commentator | Co-author of social essay. | 2 | 2 |
| Saskia Lensink TNO | Selected | Think tank | TNO: public research institution, research engineer. | 2 | 2 |
| Shaniqua McClendon Political expert · Crooked | Selected | Commentator | Political expert at Crooked, political analyst. | 2 | 2 |
| Sharon Weinberger | Selected | Commentator | Opinion journalist, analyst. | 2 | 2 |
| Simon Wright Industry editor · The Economist | Selected | Commentator | Industry editor and analyst. | 2 | 2 |
| Simone Tulumello Geographer and researcher · Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) da Universidade de Lisboa | Selected | Academic | Geographer researcher at Instituto Ciências Sociais Lisbon. | 2 | 2 |
| Sonja Aziz Lawyer | Selected | Lawyer | Lawyer practicing in Vienna. | 2 | 2 |
| Sophie Des Déserts Senior reporter on the Enquête team at Libération | Selected | Commentator | Investigation service senior reporter at Liberation. | 2 | 2 |
| Stacy Mitchell Economic writer and strategist · Institute for Local Self-Reliance | Selected | Commentator | Economic writer and strategist at ILSR. | 2 | 2 |