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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Van Oostenbrugge MP · NSC | Excluded | Serving politician | Parliamentarian NSC, deputy in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Van Tijn | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vance Morris Former Disney leader and customer experience expert | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Former Disney executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanda Anastácio Moderator | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa A. Bee Author | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Ahuja Board member for services and international affairs · Federal Employment Agency | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Board Member Federal Employment Agency, executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Chang Director of Programs · Leonardo | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of Programs at Leonardo. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Feltz TV personality | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Judelman | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Jérome Sociologist and political scientist | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Roghi | Excluded | Journalist | Position not specified. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Rosenthal | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Schneider Senior reporter · Monde | Excluded | Journalist | Le Monde senior reporter. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Vazard | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Villalba Mouco Scientist · Institute of Evolutionary Biology | Selected | Academic | Scientist at Instituto Biología Evolutiva. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Westphal Co-founder · Choosy | Excluded | Business executive | Co-Founder of Choosy, startup founder. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanessa Williams Recording artist and stage and screen actor | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanguélis Panayotis President and expert · MKG | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | President and MKG expert, leader. | 1 | 1 |
| Vani Kant Borooah Scholar | Selected | Academic | Emeritus professor of economics at Ulster University. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanina Acqualagna Senior director and general manager · PayPal Italia | Excluded | Business executive | Senior Director General Manager PayPal. | 1 | 1 |
| Vanja Kovacic Archaeologist | Selected | Academic | Dr. archaeologist, university researcher. | 1 | 1 |
| Vappu Kaarenoja Editorial chief · Suomen Kuvalehti | Excluded | Journalist | Editorial manager. | 1 | 1 |
| Vardan Hovhannisyan Journalist | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Varqa Abyaneh | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Vasco Falcão President · Konica-Minolta Portugal e Espanha | Excluded | Business executive | Presidente Konica-Minolta, business executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Vasco Ribeiro | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vasco Sacramento Founder and director · Sons Em Trânsito | Excluded | Business executive | Founder and director of Sons Em Trânsito. | 1 | 1 |
| Vasiliki Margari Dr | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Vasily Astrov Senior researcher · Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleich (WIIW) | Selected | Think tank | Senior Researcher WIIW, think tank. | 1 | 1 |
| Vasyl Khymynets Ambassador · Ukraine | Excluded | Serving politician | Ambassador to Ukraine, diplomat in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Vaughan Buckley Founder and C.E.O. · Volumetric Building Companies | Excluded | Business executive | Founder and CEO of Volumetric Building. | 1 | 1 |
| Vaughn Hillyard | Excluded | Journalist | Position not specified. | 1 | 1 |
| Vaughn Vreeland Supervising video producer · NYT Cooking | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vauhini Vara Contributing writer · Bloomberg Businessweek | Excluded | Journalist | Contributing writer at Bloomberg. | 1 | 1 |
| Vebjørn Sand Artist | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vebjørn Selbekk Editor · Dagen | Excluded | Journalist | Editor-in-Chief Dagen | 1 | 1 |
| Veera Marttila Researcher | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Veerle Baetens Actress and director | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Veerle De Vos | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Veerle Duflou | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Veerle Hegge Teacher | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Veerle Peeters Cybercrime expert | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Veerle Soyez Professor · VUB | Selected | Academic | Prof dr VUB, academic. | 1 | 1 |
| Vegard Bjørsmo | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Vegard Kolbjørnsrud Associate professor · BI | Selected | Academic | Associate professor at BI. | 1 | 1 |
| Vegard Rødås PST | Excluded | Serving politician | Leader at PST, security official in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Vegard Sæther Historian | Selected | Academic | Historian, author and lecturer. | 1 | 1 |
| Vegard Venli | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Veikko Isotalo Doctoral researcher · University of Helsinki | Selected | Academic | Doctoral Researcher University of Helsinki. | 1 | 1 |
| Veikko Vallin Former politician, successful entrepreneur | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Former politician. | 1 | 1 |