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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarael Alcauter | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Adams Former CIA targeting officer | Selected | Former official | Former CIA targeting officer. | 5 | 12 |
| Sarah Armstrong-Smith Chief Security Advisor in EMEA · Microsoft | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft, executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Badwy Université Leiden | Selected | Academic | Affiliated with University of Leiden. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Baker Group and Program Leader for Carbon Technologies · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Selected | Academic | Group Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Ball GP and Menopause Specialist · WSJ. Magazine | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | GP/physician, magazine editor. | 2 | 2 |
| Sarah Barmor | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Baxter Deputy editor · The Sunday Times | Excluded | Journalist | Deputy editor Sunday Times. | 1 | 2 |
| Sarah Belouezzane Religion journalist · Le Monde | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist religion specialist. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Bennani President · Jeunesse Populaire | Excluded | Serving politician | President, Jeunesse Populaire (political). | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Bird Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI · Microsoft | Excluded | Business executive | Chief Product Officer at Microsoft, executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Birke Mexico City bureau chief · The Economist | Excluded | Journalist | Bureau chief The Economist. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Botstein Co-producer | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Co-producer. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Bracke Sociologist | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Announced as sociologist and professor, but the profile only says university teacher at Amsterdam, with no field to confirm the match. | 2 | 2 |
| Sarah Bradbury CEO · Institute of Grocery Distribution | Excluded | Business executive | CEO of Institute of Grocery Distribution. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Breen Author | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Journalist/writer without indication of political analysis. | 1 | 2 |
| Sarah Brooks Actress | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Caden Guest | Excluded | Journalist | No specific function. | 1 | 4 |
| Sarah Campbell Correspondent · BBC | Excluded | Journalist | BBC correspondent. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Candreva | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Clay | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Marketing consultant. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Cohn-Fantl Journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Generic journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Collins Journalist · Irish Independent | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist Irish Independent. | 2 | 2 |
| Sarah Ditum Writer · The Times and The Sunday Times | Selected | Commentator | Writer The Times and Sunday Times, essayist. | 2 | 35 |
| Sarah Dobbe SP MP | Excluded | Serving politician | SP member of parliament (female), incumbent politician. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Durieux Activist and campaign organiser, author | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Activist, campaign organizer. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Durocher National president of Planning familial | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 2 |
| Sarah El Haïry High Commissioner for Children | Excluded | Serving politician | High Commissioner for Children, public office in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Elkhaldy Spiritual teacher, author | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Spiritual teacher and author. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Elliott Republicans Overseas UK | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 2 | 3 |
| Sarah Fraser-Butlin Cloisters Chambers | Selected | Lawyer | Lawyer at Cloisters Chambers law firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Friedland Director | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Gabbott Professor of palaeontology · University of Leicester | Selected | Academic | Professor of paleontology at University of Leicester. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Green Carmichael Journalist · Bloomberg | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist Bloomberg. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Grünewald | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 2 | 3 |
| Sarah Guo Founder · Conviction | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of startup Conviction. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Handley-Cousins University of Buffalo | Selected | Academic | University of Buffalo nominated, historian. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Heintz Author | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Hirshland CEO · US Olympic and Paralympic Committee | Excluded | Business executive | CEO of US Olympic and Paralympic Committee. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Hoiland Dr | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Position not specified in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Holmes | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders Governor | Excluded | Serving politician | Governor in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Iben Almbjerg | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Ichou Director · Le Bondy Blog | Excluded | Journalist | Director of Le Bondy Blog. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah J. Bloesch Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Selected | Academic | Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Lande | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Legrain Member of parliament | Excluded | Serving politician | Female Unsubmissive member from Paris currently serving. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Lehnert SWR | Excluded | Journalist | Reporter from SWR | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Levy | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Sarah Lewis John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities · Harvard University | Selected | Academic | Associate Professor of Humanities at Harvard. | 1 | 1 |