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 institution4,334 Think tankNamed position at a think tank or public policy institute730 Former officialHeld a position in a public authority: ministry, regulator, central bank, parliament531 LawyerPractices law, in a firm, in-house or at the bar251 Economist or consultantEconomist, analyst or adviser, in a firm or independent865 CommentatorAnalyzes 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
Tiago Antunes Former secretary of state	Selected	Former official	Former Portuguese Secretary of State.	2	2
Tim Burchett Congressman	Excluded	Serving politician	Congressman.	2	2
Tim Höttges CEO · Telekom	Excluded	Business executive	CEO of Deutsche Telekom.	2	2
Tim Storey Speaker, life coach, and author	Excluded	Profession outside the 6 roles	Speaker and life coach.	2	2
Tim Van Deursen Author · Hack the Poacher	Excluded	Position not verifiable	Insufficiently precise role in texts.	2	2
Timo Lappi CEO · Fondia	Excluded	Business executive	CEO of Fondia.	2	2
Tom Allen Comedian	Excluded	Artist	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Tom Carstensen Journalist	Excluded	Journalist	Danish journalist.	2	2
Tom Homan U.S. Border Czar	Excluded	Serving politician	U.S. Border Czar under Trump, government position.	2	2
Tom McTague Editor · New Statesman	Excluded	Journalist	Political editor, general news editorial writer.	2	2
Tom van Lamoen List leader · libertaire partij	Excluded	Serving politician	List leader (candidate) Libertaire Party.	2	2
Tom Whipple Guest presenter · BBC Radio 4	Excluded	Journalist	Guest presenter, science editor.	2	2
Tomasz Kot Prosecutor	Excluded	Artist	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Tomasz Trzcinski Researcher · Princeton	Selected	Academic	Researcher and senior lecturer, Warsaw University of Technology.	2	2
Tonia Mastrobuoni Correspondent · La Repubblica	Excluded	Journalist	Correspondent La Repubblica.	2	2
Tony Diver US editor · The Telegraph	Excluded	Journalist	US editor at Telegraph.	2	2
Tore Janson Professor · Stockholm University	Selected	Academic	Professor emeritus, Stockholm University.	2	2
Toto Wolff Team principle and CEO · Mercedes	Excluded	Business executive	Team principal and CEO of Mercedes, business leader.	2	2
Trond Giske Deputy leader of the Trondheim Labour Party · Trondheim arbeiderparti	Excluded	Serving politician	Political party leader and member of Stortinget, politician in office.	2	2
Trygve Slagsvold Vedum Finance minister · Sp	Excluded	Serving politician	Finance Minister, minister in office.	2	2
Twan Huys	Excluded	Journalist	Position not specified.	2	2
Uap Gerb Researcher	Excluded	Position not verifiable	Insufficiently precise role in texts.	2	2
Ulrika Knutson Journalist and author	Excluded	Journalist	Journalist and author, writer.	2	2
Ursula von der Leyen President · European Commission	Excluded	Serving politician	President of European Commission, sitting politician.	2	2
Uzi Arad Former Head of Mossad Intelligence and National Security Advisor	Selected	Former official	Former Head of Mossad and National Security Advisor.	2	2
Valérie Zenatti Author	Excluded	Fiction or entertainment	French author and translator.	2	2
Vandana Shiva Alternative Nobel Prize laureate & activist	Excluded	Profession outside the 6 roles	Alternative Nobel Prize recipient and activist.	2	2
Veit Dengler Co-founder · NEOS	Excluded	Serving politician	Co-founder of NEOS, politician in office.	2	2
Venetia Rainey Co-host Battle Lines podcast · The Telegraph	Excluded	Off-topic profile	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Vera Gouveia Barros Economist and researcher · SEDES	Excluded	Off-topic profile	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Veronika Melkozerova Politico	Excluded	Journalist	Journalist POLITICO.	2	2
Victor Muller Entrepreneur · Spyker	Excluded	Business executive	Entrepreneur, CEO of Spyker.	2	2
Ville Mäkipelto Doctor of theology	Excluded	Profession outside the 6 roles	Doctoral student in theology, mainly content creator.	2	2
Vince Coglianese	Excluded	Off-topic profile	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Vitali Klitschko Mayor of Kyiv	Excluded	Serving politician	Mayor of Kyiv in office.	2	2
Vitaly Shevchenko Russia editor · BBC Monitoring	Excluded	Journalist	Russia editor, BBC Monitoring, section editor.	2	2
Vlad Tenev CEO · Robinhood	Excluded	Business executive	CEO of Robinhood.	2	2
Véronique De Kock Radio and TV presenter	Excluded	Off-topic profile	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe Anthropologist	Selected	Academic	Anthropologist at School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences.	2	2
Víctor Alvargonzález Founder · Nextep Finance	Excluded	Business executive	Founder and strategy director of Nextep Finance.	2	2
Wendy Chang Analyst · Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics)	Selected	Think tank	Analyst at Mercator Institute for China Studies (think tank).	2	2
Wendy Woloson Associate professor · Rutgers University-Camden	Selected	Academic	Professor and Chair at Rutgers University.	2	2
Will Cole Dr.	Excluded	Profession outside the 6 roles	Functional medicine expert.	2	2
Will Geddes Security expert	Excluded	Profession outside the 6 roles	Security consultant, security company leader.	2	2
Willem Engel Dance teacher, choreographer, activist · Viruswaarheid	Excluded	Personal testimony	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Wilma de Rek Head of books · Volkskrant	Excluded	Off-topic profile	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Wolfgang Kirsch CEO · Shelly Group	Excluded	Business executive	CEO of Shelly Group.	2	2
Wolfgang Kubicki Deputy chair of the FDP and Vice President of the Bundestag	Excluded	Serving politician	Politician in office, vice-president of Bundestag.	2	2
Wolfgang Schmidt Minister for the Chancellery	Excluded	Serving politician	German government minister in office.	2	2
Wolfgang Wee NRK	Excluded	Profession outside the 6 roles	Podcast presenter.	2	2

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