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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Hardy Director General · Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade | Selected | Think tank | Director general of Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Hiatt | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Entrepreneur. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Hoeyberghs Arts, ondernemer | Excluded | Business executive | Arts, entrepreneur (arts, entrepreneur). | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Hooke Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of book 'The Myth of Private Equity', non-fiction. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Horing Managing Director · Insight Partners | Excluded | Business executive | Managing Director at Insight Partners (venture capital). | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Janssen Coach | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Coach. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Jarvis Media critic | Selected | Commentator | Media critic (media critic). | 3 | 4 |
| Jeff Jenkins Founder of Jeff Jenkins Productions (JJP) | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Jeff Jenkins Productions. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Jordan General Partner · Andreessen Horowitz | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz venture capital. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Kinney Author, cartoonist, and owner · An Unlikely Story Bookstore and Café | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Fiction author (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), cartoonist. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Kripal Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought · Rice University | Selected | Academic | Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Lichtman Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology · Harvard University | Selected | Academic | Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff MacPherson CEO · Cloud37 | Excluded | Business executive | CEO of Cloud37. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Mason | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff May | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Moorad Co-Founder · MSP Sports Capital | Excluded | Business executive | Co-Founder of MSP Sports Capital, entrepreneur. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Nuccetelli Former security officer of the US Air Force | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Phillips | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Probst Host · Survivor | Excluded | Business executive | Host of Survivor, reality TV host. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Rudnicki Partner · McKinsey & Company | Selected | Economist or consultant | Partner at McKinsey & Company, management consultant. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Sachs Professor | Selected | Academic | Professor title, explicit university title. | 2 | 3 |
| Jeff Seibert Co-founder and CEO · Digits | Excluded | Business executive | Co-founder and CEO of Digits, entrepreneur. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Sharlet Reporter | Excluded | Journalist | Independent reporter | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Smyth Major-General · Royal Canadian Air Force | Excluded | Serving politician | Major-General of the Royal Canadian Air Force, active military officer. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Spencer Olympic cyclist turned elite performance coach | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Elite performance coach, sports coach. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Strasser Microsoft | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Microsoft executive, not domain specialist. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Streicher Dr, senior curator · Natural History Museum of London | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Senior Curator at Natural History Museum of London. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Thijssen Investment expert · Beleggers Belangen | Selected | Economist or consultant | Investment expert at Beleggers Belangen. | 1 | 6 |
| Jeff Wetzler Author | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Leader, self-development author. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeff Wise | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | American author and television journalist, not analyst. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffery D. Long Author | Selected | Commentator | Scholar of religious studies, essay author. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffery Fowler Chief executive officer · Hodinkee | Excluded | Business executive | Chief Executive Officer of Hodinkee, business executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Barrows Dr. | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 2 |
| Jeffrey Besecker Seer, healer, guide | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Seer, healer, guide, alternative practitioner. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Burke Naturopathic practitioner and master herbalist · Kokora Life | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Naturopathic practitioner, non-academic health practitioner. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Donaldson Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party | Excluded | Serving politician | Democratic Unionist Party leader in office, active politician. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Kopstein | Selected | Commentator | Co-author of The Assault on the State, political essayist. | 3 | 3 |
| Jeffrey Kripal Professor · university | Selected | Academic | Professor at Rice University. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Lewis | Selected | Academic | Nuclear non-proliferation researcher, university. | 2 | 5 |
| Jeffrey Mishlove PhD Parapsychologie | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Sachs Professor | Selected | Economist or consultant | Public policy expert and independent economist. | 16 | 241 |
| Jeffrey Steele Singer and songwriter | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Jeh Johnson Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security | Selected | Former official | Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. | 3 | 3 |
| Jehuda Ben David | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Jelena Postuma | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Female politician. | 1 | 1 |
| Jelena Zdravkovic Professor of systems analysis | Selected | Academic | Professor, explicit academic title. | 1 | 1 |
| Jelka Pospig | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Jella Wauters Panda expert · Pairi Daiza | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Panda expert at Pairi Daiza, animal caretaker. | 1 | 1 |
| Jelle Brandt Corstius Writer | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Journalist and TV presenter. | 1 | 1 |
| Jelle De Beule Actor, screenwriter and television maker | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |