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
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
Wolfram Weimer Publisher and book author	Excluded	Off-topic profile	Excluded before role classification.	2	2
Wouter Deprez	Excluded	Artist	Excluded before role classification.	2	2

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