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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rupert Harrison George Osborne's former chief of staff | Selected | Economist or consultant | Economist and BlackRock manager. | 1 | 1 |
| Ruslan Karmannyj Independent financial advisor | Selected | Economist or consultant | Independent financial advisor. | 1 | 1 |
| Rut Geli Manager · Centre d'Arqueologia Subacuática de Catalunya | Selected | Academic | Director, Center for Archaeology. | 1 | 1 |
| Ruth Breslin Director · Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute | Selected | Think tank | Director of Sexual Exploitation Institute. | 1 | 1 |
| Ruth Curtice CEO · Resolution Foundation | Selected | Think tank | CEO of Resolution Foundation. | 1 | 1 |
| Ruth Durrer Universität Genf | Selected | Academic | Physicist at University of Geneva. | 1 | 1 |
| Ruth Gotian Chief Learning Officer and Associate Professor of Education in Anaesthesiology · Weill Cornell Medicine | Selected | Academic | Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Education at Weill Cornell Medicine. | 1 | 2 |
| Ruth Margalit New Yorker | Selected | Commentator | Contributor to The New Yorker, essays magazine. | 1 | 2 |
| Ruud Koning Football economist · University of Groningen | Selected | Academic | Football economist at University of Groningen. | 1 | 1 |
| Ryan Bohl Mideast analyst · RANE | Selected | Economist or consultant | Middle East analyst at RANE, consulting firm. | 1 | 4 |
| Ryan Crosswell Former Republican, former federal prosecutor | Selected | Former official | Former federal prosecutor, former Republican. | 1 | 1 |
| Ryan Davies Senior Partner · McKinsey | Selected | Economist or consultant | Senior Partner at McKinsey, consulting firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Ryan Engley Assistant Professor of Media Studies · Pomona College | Selected | Academic | Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. | 1 | 1 |
| Ryan Rush Consultant · Hogan's Corporate Solutions | Selected | Economist or consultant | Consultant at Hogan's Corporate Solutions consulting firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Ryszard Kaczmarek Professor | Selected | Academic | Historian, university professor. | 1 | 1 |
| Ryszard Legutko Professor | Selected | Academic | Professor at Jagiellonian University. | 1 | 1 |
| Ryszard Piotrowski Prof., member of the presidential council | Selected | Academic | Professor at University of Warsaw. | 1 | 1 |
| Réginald Moreels Surgeon, state secretary | Selected | Former official | Former State Secretary (staatssecretaris). | 1 | 1 |
| Rémi Fleurance Columnist · Micode | Selected | Commentator | Columnist at Micode, technology analyst. | 1 | 2 |
| Rémi Nouailhac Lawyer and head of legal affairs for sustainable development · TotalEnergies | Selected | Lawyer | Lawyer and legal officer at TotalEnergies. | 1 | 1 |
| S. Furkan Ozturk Researcher · Harvard University | Selected | Academic | Researcher at Harvard University. | 1 | 1 |
| Saba-Nur Cheema Expert on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism | Selected | Academic | Political scientist female professor at university. | 1 | 1 |
| Sabina Faiz Rashid Author · Routledge | Selected | Commentator | Author of non-fiction on poverty and gender. | 1 | 1 |
| Sabine Fuss Professor · Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change | Selected | Think tank | Prof. at Mercator Research Institute, think tank. | 1 | 1 |
| Sabine Rutar Palgrave MacMillan | Selected | Academic | Historian professor at Leibniz Institute. | 1 | 1 |
| Sabine Rösler Dr, botanist · Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences | Selected | Academic | Dr. botanist at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences. | 1 | 1 |
| Sabrina Strings Sociologist Dr. | Selected | Academic | Sociologist, doctor, university professor. | 1 | 1 |
| Sachin Savur Researcher · Institute for Government | Selected | Think tank | Researcher at Institute for Government, think tank. | 1 | 5 |
| Sadanand Dhume Senior fellow · Council on Foreign Relations | Selected | Think tank | Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, think tank. | 1 | 1 |
| Safia El Aaddam Author | Selected | Commentator | Writer and anti-racist activist. | 1 | 1 |
| Sailaja Krishnamurti Professor of Gender Studies · Queen's University | Selected | Academic | Professor of Gender Studies at Queen's University. | 1 | 1 |
| Salim Furth Senior Research Fellow · Mercatus Center | Selected | Think tank | Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus Center, think tank. | 1 | 1 |
| Sally Akehurst Sports psychologist and a dean · University of Roehampton, London | Selected | Academic | Sports psychologist and dean at University of Roehampton. | 1 | 1 |
| Sally Grainger Food historian | Selected | Academic | Food historian at University of Reading. | 1 | 1 |
| Sally King Dr | Selected | Commentator | Author of nonfiction book Menstrual Myth Busting published by Policy Press. | 1 | 1 |
| Salvador Macip Longevity expert | Selected | Academic | Full professor at University of Leicester. | 1 | 1 |
| Sam Bresnick Research Fellow · Georgetown CSET | Selected | Think tank | Research Fellow · Georgetown CSET, security think tank | 1 | 2 |
| Sam Friedman Professor of Sociology · London School of Economics | Selected | Academic | Professor of Sociology at London School of Economics. | 1 | 1 |
| Sam Horn Author · Tongue Fu! Training Institute | Selected | Commentator | Author and founder of institute. | 1 | 1 |
| Samantha Gross Fellow in the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate | Selected | Think tank | Fellow in Cross-Brookings Initiative, Brookings. | 1 | 1 |
| Sameer Murthy Physicist · King's College London | Selected | Academic | Physicist, King's College London. | 1 | 2 |
| Sami Solanki Professor · Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research | Selected | Academic | Prof. at Max-Planck-Institut for Solar System Research. | 1 | 1 |
| Samu Rautio Associate military professor, commander · Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulu | Selected | Academic | Assistant military professor at Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulu. | 1 | 1 |
| Samuel Brownback Former Ambassador | Selected | Former official | Former ambassador. | 1 | 2 |
| Samuel Chang PhD student in Accounting · Chicago Booth | Selected | Academic | Ph.D. student in Accounting, Chicago Booth. | 1 | 1 |
| Samuel Franklin Cultural historian · Smithsonian Institution | Selected | Academic | Cultural historian, Smithsonian Institution. | 1 | 1 |
| Samuel Issacharoff Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law · New York University School of Law | Selected | Academic | Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law · NYU School of Law | 1 | 1 |
| Samuel Liberty Professor of game design · Boston University | Selected | Academic | Professor of Game Design at Boston University. | 1 | 1 |
| Samuel Ritholtz Author · University of California Press | Selected | Commentator | Author of 'The Way Out' non-fiction book. | 1 | 1 |
| Samuël Kruizenga Military historian · University of Amsterdam | Selected | Academic | Military historian at University of Amsterdam. | 1 | 1 |