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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Pearson | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Dave Pelzer Author | Selected | Commentator | Author. | 1 | 2 |
| Dave Plummer Programmer, former Microsoft software engineer | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Software engineer, former Microsoft. | 1 | 1 |
| Dave Roberts Historian | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Historian without specified institution. | 1 | 1 |
| Dave Rubin Host · The Rubin Report | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 3 | 3 |
| Dave Smith | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 2 | 2 |
| Dave Weigel Semafor | Excluded | Journalist | Political reporter at Semafor. | 2 | 2 |
| Dave Yuan Founder and Partner · Tidemark Capital | Excluded | Business executive | Founder partner of investment capital firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Davey Shlasko Founder of Think Again Training · Think Again Training & Consulting | Selected | Think tank | Founder of Think Again Training consulting. | 2 | 2 |
| David Abrutat Official Historian, GCHQ | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Official historian of GCHQ. | 1 | 1 |
| David Adjmi Author and playwright | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Author and playwright of fiction. | 1 | 2 |
| David Alan Sklansky Former prosecutor and criminal law expert · Stanford Law School | Selected | Lawyer | Law professor at Stanford Law School. | 1 | 1 |
| David Alandete Correspondent | Excluded | Journalist | Correspondent Washington. | 1 | 2 |
| David Albright President · Institute for Science and International Security | Selected | Think tank | President of international science security institute. | 4 | 5 |
| David Alemán Journalist | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Journalist journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| David Amsellem Specialist | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| David Andrews Co-CEO · Gryphon Investors | Excluded | Business executive | Co-CEO at Gryphon Investors. | 1 | 1 |
| David Annotel Lieutenant-colonel · Fédération nationale des sapeurs-pompiers de France | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Lieutenant-Colonel firefighters federation. | 1 | 1 |
| David Arrowsmith Author | Selected | Commentator | Author. | 1 | 1 |
| David Austin Walsh Historian and author | Selected | Commentator | Historian and author. | 1 | 1 |
| David Autor Economist · MIT | Selected | Economist or consultant | Economist at MIT. | 5 | 5 |
| David Baddiel Comedian | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 3 | 3 |
| David Bather Woods Author | Selected | Commentator | Author. | 2 | 2 |
| David Baumgartner Founder · Dean & David | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Dean & David restaurant. | 1 | 1 |
| David Beauchemin | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| David Beckham Soccer star | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| David Beers Former head of sovereign credit ratings · S&P | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Former head of sovereign credit at S&P. | 1 | 1 |
| David Bell | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (non) : Guest of a pop-history show on Saudi Arabia and US conservatism, while the linked profile is a historian of France, so likely a namesake. | 1 | 2 |
| David Berger Publicist and theologian · philosophia perennis | Selected | Commentator | Publicist and theologian. | 1 | 3 |
| David Bernstein Law professor | Selected | Lawyer | Law professor. | 2 | 2 |
| David Bigdong Director | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| David Blair Chief foreign affairs commentator · The Telegraph | Selected | Commentator | Chief foreign affairs commentator at Telegraph. | 3 | 8 |
| David Blanchflower Professor of economics · Dartmouth College | Selected | Economist or consultant | Professor of economics, Dartmouth. | 1 | 1 |
| David Bolchover | Selected | Commentator | British writer. | 1 | 1 |
| David Booth Founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors. | 1 | 1 |
| David Botello Popularizer | Selected | Commentator | Science communicator and history program director. | 3 | 6 |
| David Bozell President · Media Research Company | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | President of Media Research Company. | 1 | 1 |
| David Brooks New York Times columnist | Selected | Commentator | New York Times columnist. | 11 | 14 |
| David Brophy Conductor | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| David Brown A&M Consumer and Retail Group | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| David Bruce Chief Business Officer · Sunderland | Excluded | Business executive | Chief Business Officer at Sunderland. | 1 | 1 |
| David Brucklacher | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| David Byrne Musician, author and iconic frontman of Talking Heads | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| David C. Barnett Expert en acquisition | Excluded | Business executive | Expert in acquisitions. | 1 | 1 |
| David Campbell-Bannerman Former Tory MEP | Selected | Former official | Former Tory MEP, Brexit minister. | 1 | 1 |
| David Carpenter | Selected | Academic | Medieval historian, biographer of Henry III. | 2 | 4 |
| David Cerdá Economist, PhD in philosophy · ESIC | Selected | Academic | Economist and philosophy doctor at ESIC. | 2 | 4 |
| David Chambille Director of photography | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of photography. | 1 | 1 |
| David Charter Journalist · Times of London | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist Times of London. | 1 | 1 |
| David Chazan Paris correspondent · The Times | Excluded | Journalist | Paris correspondent, The Times. | 1 | 1 |