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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Craig Foreclosure Surplus Expert, tax strategist, and serial entrepreneur | Excluded | Business executive | Serial entrepreneur and tax strategist. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Eisgruber President · Princeton | Selected | Academic | President of Princeton University. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Hale Democratic operative and author | Excluded | Serving politician | Democratic operative and author. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Heimer | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist with no proof of analytical work. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Hill Army PEO Missiles and Space | Excluded | Serving politician | Army PEO (military officer). | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher J. Duffy | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Kirchhoff Former senior official · Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit | Selected | Former official | Former senior official at Pentagon. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Kyba Deutschen Geoforschungszentrum | Selected | Academic | Researcher at German Geoscience Center | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher L. House Brookings Institution | Selected | Think tank | At Brookings Institution. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Mann | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher McKay Head of Brand Engagement · Hillarys | Excluded | Business executive | Head of Brand Engagement. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Meltzer Football correspondent · F.A.Z. | Excluded | Journalist | Football correspondent at F.A.Z., sports journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Miller Archaeologist · Universität Tübingen | Selected | Academic | Prof. Archaeologist at Universität Tübingen. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Rääf Radiation physicist · Lund University | Selected | Academic | Radiation physicist at Lunds universitet. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher T. Nelson Duke University | Selected | Academic | Anthropologist affiliated with Duke University. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher vonheim | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Wray FBI Director | Excluded | Serving politician | FBI Director. | 1 | 1 |
| Christopher Wurmdobler Author, actor and journalist | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Author, actor and journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Christos Papadimitriou Former RB Leipzig professional | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Chrit Wolfhagen Executive · Waterschap Limburg | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Administrator at water board. | 1 | 1 |
| Chronis Tzedakis Dr. | Selected | Academic | Geographer, University of Cambridge. | 1 | 1 |
| Chuck Morse | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Credited as author of an anarchism text; the profile (journalist, writer, radio host) lists no anarchism link, and a politician namesake exists. | 1 | 1 |
| Chuck Thokey Co-founder · Top Rep Sales Training | Excluded | Business executive | Co-founder of sales training. | 1 | 1 |
| Chun Han Wong China reporter · Wall Street Journal | Excluded | Journalist | China reporter at Wall Street Journal. | 1 | 1 |
| Ci Chu Chief Discovery Officer · Xaira Therapeutics | Excluded | Business executive | Chief Discovery Officer at biotech company. | 1 | 1 |
| Ci Holmgren Political reporter · Sveriges Radio | Excluded | Journalist | Politics reporter at Sveriges Radio, political reporter. | 1 | 1 |
| Cian O'Callaghan Deputy leader · Social Democrats | Excluded | Serving politician | Deputy leader of political party. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciara Carty Director of Services · Focus Ireland | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of Services at NGO. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciaran Byrne Director of National Retrofit | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of government program, public official in position. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciaran Connolly Founder · ProfileTree | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of digital agency. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciaran Halpin Broadcaster | Excluded | Journalist | Broadcaster Ciaran Halpin. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciaran Kirwan | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciaran Martin Chief executive · National Cyber Security Centre | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Chief Executive of cybersecurity center. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciaran O'Neill Sunday World journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Sunday World journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Ciarán Mulqueen Author | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Cilla Robach Chef · Nationalmuseum | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of Nationalmuseum, not a university institution. | 1 | 1 |
| Cillian Murphy Oscar-winner | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Cindy Gallop Founder · Make Love Not Porn | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Make Love Not Porn, business executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Cindy Levy Global coleader of McKinsey's geopolitics work | Selected | Economist or consultant | Co-leader of global geopolitics work at McKinsey, consulting firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Cindy McCain Head of the United Nations' World Food Programme · UN World Food Programme | Excluded | Serving politician | Director of UN World Food Programme, currently in position. | 1 | 1 |
| Cindy Storer Former analyst · CIA | Selected | Former official | Former CIA analyst (fd). | 1 | 1 |
| Cinzia Alcidi Economist · Centro per gli studi politici europei | Selected | Think tank | Economist at Centro per gli studi politici europei. | 1 | 1 |
| Claartje ter Hoeven Professor · Erasmus University Rotterdam | Selected | Academic | Professor (Hoogleraar) at Erasmus University Rotterdam. | 1 | 1 |
| Claas-Hinrich Lammers Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy · Asklepios Klinikums Hamburg-Nord | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Psychiatrist at Asklepios clinic, no university affiliation. | 1 | 1 |
| Claes Aronsson Presenter of the podcast Gräns | Excluded | Journalist | Program presenter, Grans podcast, presenter. | 1 | 1 |
| Claes-Göran Wetterholm Ethnologist | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Claire Bargelès Correspondent · Les Echos | Excluded | Journalist | Les Echos correspondent. | 1 | 1 |
| Claire Bedbrook Postdoctoral Scholar · Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute | Selected | Academic | Postdoctoral researcher at Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. | 1 | 1 |
| Claire Booth Professor in Gene Therapy · Great Ormond Street Hospital | Selected | Academic | Professor of gene therapy (explicit professor title). | 1 | 1 |
| Claire Bouvier AI expert · Brightlight | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | AI expert at private company, no 6-role match. | 1 | 1 |