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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Sharp Attorney | Selected | Lawyer | Attorney, lawyer. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Smeed Business Psychologist and co-founder · Working Well Community | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Business psychologist and co-founder. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Strippelhoff Partner, CEO / CRO · Red Hawk Technologies | Excluded | Business executive | Partner, CEO/CRO of Red Hawk Technologies. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Tait Cybersecurity guru and Lawfare Contributing Editor | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Uhler | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Van Swol | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Walsh The Daily Wire | Excluded | Journalist | Daily Wire. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Watters Leader in Geopolitics, Government, and Strategy · McKinsey & Company | Selected | Economist or consultant | Leader in Geopolitics, Government, and Strategy at McKinsey. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Wrack General secretary · fire brigade's union | Excluded | Serving politician | General secretary of fire brigade's union. | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Yglesias | Excluded | Journalist | Matt Yglesias. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Bassetti | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Doctor of infectious disease at San Martino Hospital. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Berrettini | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Colaninno Entrepreneur | Excluded | Business executive | Entrepreneur. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo D'Alonzo Emergency | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Member of Emergency NGO. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo G.P. Flora | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Lepore Mayor | Excluded | Serving politician | Mayor, politician in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Miluzio Space science communicator | Selected | Commentator | Space science communicator. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Muzio | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Negri | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Renzi Senator · Italia Viva | Excluded | Serving politician | Senator, politician in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Saudino | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Philosophy teacher and videomaker. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Archer NYU Press | Selected | Academic et Commentator | University teacher, social scientist. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Bartlett Republican strategist | Selected | Former official | Republican strategist, former Trump State Department official | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Bernstein Manager of Shale Analytics · Rystad Energy | Selected | Economist or consultant | Manager of Shale Analytics at Rystad Energy. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Brookes Physics professor · Nottingham university | Selected | Academic | Physics professor at Nottingham University. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Brown Whistleblower | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Bunn Harvard Kennedy School | Selected | Academic | Harvard Kennedy School, academic institution. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew C. Klein Author | Selected | Commentator | Co-author of 'Trade Wars Are Class Wars', economic analysis. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Campbell Foreign features editor · The Sunday Times | Excluded | Journalist | Foreign features editor at Sunday Times. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Doyle Former Downing Street communications director | Selected | Former official | Former Downing Street communications director. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Duffey Global Business Model Reinvention Leader · PwC | Selected | Economist or consultant | Global Business Model Reinvention Leader at PwC. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Hefler Intelligence historian, King's College London | Selected | Academic | Intelligence historian at King's College London. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Holehouse British Politics correspondent · The Economist | Excluded | Journalist | British politics correspondent Economist. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Jacobs Entertainment and culture journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Entertainment and culture journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Jones Founder · Bread Ahead | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Bread Ahead. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Karnitschnig Chief Europe correspondent · POLITICO | Excluded | Journalist | Chief Europe correspondent at POLITICO. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Leonard Associate Professor · University of California, San Francisco | Selected | Academic | Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Lynn Economist | Selected | Economist or consultant | Economist. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Malthouse | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew McConaughey Academy Award-winning actor | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew O'Toole SDLP member of the Legislative Assembly | Excluded | Serving politician | SDLP member of the Legislative Assembly, incumbent politician. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Platkin Attorney General · New Jersey | Excluded | Serving politician | Attorney General of New Jersey, public official in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Powell Narrator | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Podcast narrator, presentation activity without analysis. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Sachs Music researcher · Columbia University | Selected | Academic | Music researcher at Columbia University. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Spencer Chief Accounting Officer · Global Partners LP | Excluded | Business executive | Chief Accounting Officer, corporate executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Steeples Journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Sweet Writer | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Mystery series writer, fiction author. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Syed Writer and broadcaster | Excluded | Journalist | Writer and Broadcaster. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew V. Elliott University of California at Berkeley | Selected | Academic | University of California at Berkeley. | 1 | 1 |
| Matthew Winn Professor · University of Minnesota | Selected | Academic | Professor at University of Minnesota. | 1 | 1 |