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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menno van Dongen Justice correspondent | Excluded | Journalist | Justice correspondent reporter. | 1 | 1 |
| Mensje van Keulen Writer | Selected | Commentator | Writer and prose author. | 1 | 1 |
| Meral Polat Singer and actress | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Ahijón Actress | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes de Miranda | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Fernández Director · TorinoFilmLab | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of TorinoFilmLab, institution director. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Hausmann | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Ruehl Financial Times | Excluded | Journalist | Financial Times reporter, reporting journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Valmisa Author · Oxford University Press | Selected | Commentator | Author All Things Act at Oxford UP, non-fiction book. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Vidal Coordinator · Esquerra Unida i Alternativa | Excluded | Serving politician | Coordinator for United Left, political party official. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Wullich Founder · Las Top 100 Mujeres Líderes en España | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mercedes Zandwijken | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Meredith Koch Engineer | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Engineer with no university affiliation. | 1 | 1 |
| Meredith Whitaker President · Signal Foundation | Excluded | Business executive | President, Signal Foundation, leader. | 1 | 1 |
| Meredith Whittaker AI researcher, president · Signal-Stiftung | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | AI researcher and president of Signal Foundation. | 1 | 1 |
| Merel Mulder General practitioner | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | General practitioner. | 1 | 1 |
| Meret Baumann Eastern Europe correspondent | Excluded | Journalist | Eastern Europe correspondent. | 1 | 1 |
| Merete Fjeld Brattested FN ambassador | Excluded | Serving politician | UN ambassador, public official ambassador. | 1 | 1 |
| Merete Ipsen Former head of Kvindemuseet | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Former director of Women's Museum. | 1 | 1 |
| Merete Markeng Skar | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Texts do not specify the function. | 1 | 1 |
| Merete Søby Partner · Odgers | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Partner at recruitment firm (Odgers). | 1 | 1 |
| Merici Vinton Former Senior Advisor to IRS Commissioner | Selected | Former official | Former Senior Advisor to IRS Commissioner. | 1 | 1 |
| Meriel Neighbour Director of Technology Delivery and Transformation · River Island | Excluded | Business executive | Technology director at River Island, business executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Merijn Schik Senior Manager Public Policy Benelux · Amazon Web Services | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Senior Manager Public Policy AWS, corporate executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Merit Morikawa Organisational psychology | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Organizational psychology, organizational psychologist. | 1 | 1 |
| Merlijn van Dijk FD retail editor · Het Financieele Dagblad | Excluded | Journalist | F.D. retail editor, commerce reporting editor. | 1 | 1 |
| Merlin Holland | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Merlin Melles Founder of Founders Carbon Network, Carbon Network and Pearlcard | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Founders Carbon Network. | 1 | 1 |
| Merlin Menze Journalist · NDR | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist NDR, reporting journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Merlin Monzel Psychologist | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Psychologist. | 1 | 1 |
| Merlyn Thomas BBC Verify | Excluded | Journalist | BBC Verify, fact-checking journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Merouan Mekouar Full professor of development studies and social sciences · York University | Selected | Academic | Full professor at York University. | 1 | 1 |
| Merrick Garland Attorney General · United States | Excluded | Serving politician | Attorney General in office, high-ranking civil servant. | 1 | 1 |
| Merrill Garbus Musician | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Merve Emre Cultural critic | Selected | Commentator | Cultural critic, cultural critic. | 1 | 1 |
| Mervyn Jess | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mesha Mainor State Representative | Excluded | Serving politician | State Representative in office, politician. | 1 | 1 |
| Mesut Efiloglu mentoring@work | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mete Bakircioglu UChicago | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Elstrup Palaeontologist · Museum Sønderjylland og Gram Lergrav | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Paleontologist at Sønderjylland Museum, museum researcher. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Ewers Haahr Chief physician · Sexologisk Klinik i København | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Chief physician at Sexological Clinic, specialist physician. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Hopsdal Top leader | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Top leader and author of Make it Move, company executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Katrine Jensen Dansk Farmacihistorisk samling | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Texts do not specify the function. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Louise Kaagaard | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Munk Content director · Ingeniøren | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Pedersen Ekstra Bladet | Excluded | Journalist | Ekstra Bladet journalist, news reporters. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Rem Journalist, author | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist author, no explicit non-fiction evidence. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Skak Emeritus lecturer · Aarhus University | Selected | Academic | Lecturer emerita at Aarhus University. | 1 | 1 |
| Mette Toft Bjørgen Chief financial officer · Kongsberg Maritime | Excluded | Business executive | Finance Director at Kongsberg Maritime, company executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Mev Chubet | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |