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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pablo Villarrubia Mauso | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Pablo Vázquez Co-founder · Enso Movers | Excluded | Business executive | Co-founder of Enso Movers. | 1 | 1 |
| Paca Sauquillo Employment lawyer | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Packy McCormick Founder · Not Boring Capital | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Not Boring Capital. | 1 | 1 |
| Paco Buyo Real Madrid | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paco Castañares President · AEEFOR | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | President of an association of wildfire experts. | 1 | 1 |
| Paco da Belluno | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paco Lodeiro Founder of Academia de inversión and Value Investing FM · Academia de inversión, Value Investing FM | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Founder of investment academy. | 1 | 1 |
| Paco Pascual | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paco Pérez Caballero | Excluded | Journalist | Vague position. | 1 | 1 |
| Paco Álvarez Historian | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Paddy Comyn Head of Communications · Done Deal cars | Excluded | Business executive | Head of communications at Done Deal cars. | 1 | 1 |
| Padraic Wilson McCarthy | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Padraig O'Sullivan Fianna Fáil TD | Excluded | Serving politician | Fianna Fáil TD (Irish deputy). | 1 | 1 |
| Padraig Reidy Chief judge | Excluded | Journalist | Chief judge, non-journalistic role. | 1 | 1 |
| Padraig Walsh Behavioural Psychologist | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Psychologist (profession not corresponding). | 1 | 1 |
| Paige Pfleger Nashville Public Radio | Excluded | Journalist | Nashville Public Radio (function not specified). | 1 | 1 |
| Pala Molisa Academic and life coach | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Palina Milling Investigative journalist · WDR | Selected | Commentator | Investigative journalist WDR: investigation/analysis. | 1 | 1 |
| Palle Lundberg CEO · Sveriges kommuner och regioner | Excluded | Business executive | CEO at Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions. | 1 | 1 |
| Palmer Lucky Founder · Oculus | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of Oculus. | 1 | 1 |
| Paloma Concejero Documentary director | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paloma de la Nuez Professor of History of Political Ideas · Rey Juan Carlos University | Selected | Academic | Profesora of History of Political Ideas at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. | 1 | 1 |
| Paloma García de Viedma Coordinator of the Programa de Defensa Jurídica de Infancia · Fundación Raíces | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Foundation program coordinator. | 1 | 1 |
| Paloma Kubiak Editor · YourMoney.com | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Editor at YourMoney.com (journalist). | 1 | 1 |
| Paloma Sánchez Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte | Excluded | Serving politician | Ministry of Culture and Sports executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Palpu Pushpangandan Researcher, former director · TBGRI Thiruvananthapuram | Selected | Academic et Former official | Researcher, TBGRI, former botanical garden director. | 1 | 1 |
| Pam van der Veen Programme maker | Excluded | Journalist | Program maker (female producer). | 1 | 1 |
| Pamela Anderson | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Pamela Harris Mathematician | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (non) : Introduced as a mathematician on a science show; the linked profile is a federal appeals court judge, so a namesake. | 1 | 1 |
| Pamela Reif Influencer | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Pampa García Molina Journalist · Science Media Center | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist, Science Media Center. | 1 | 1 |
| Paméla Rougerie Journalist · Le Parisien | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist Le Parisien. | 1 | 1 |
| Pankaj Jain Author | Selected | Academic | Author and researcher. | 1 | 1 |
| Pankaj Sachdeva McKinsey & Company | Selected | Economist or consultant | McKinsey & Company consultant. | 1 | 1 |
| Pantomima Full | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paola Catapano Popularizer | Selected | Commentator | Science communicator. | 1 | 1 |
| Paola Ceccoli Avv. | Selected | Lawyer | Lawyer (Italian lawyer). | 1 | 1 |
| Paola Claudio KTH University | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paola Cocuzzi Park guard · Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo Lazio e Molise | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paola De Carolis Journalist · Corriere della Sera | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist, no analysis indication. | 1 | 1 |
| Paola Egonu | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paola Valentini Deputy editor-in-chief · Milano Finanza | Excluded | Journalist | Vice Editor-in-Chief financial magazine, editorial role. | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Bonsignore Commercial and Marketing Director · Coop Italian Food | Excluded | Business executive | Commercial Director of Coop Italian Food. | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Capitini General | Excluded | Serving politician | General, military officer. | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Chiappafreddo Financial consultant | Selected | Economist or consultant | Financial advisor (Italian). | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Cirio Activist and artist | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Coccorese Corriere della Sera | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist, no analysis indication. | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Giordano Writer | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Writer, probably fiction. | 1 | 1 |
| Paolo Kessisoglu | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |