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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonna Mendez Chief of disguise · CIA | Selected | Former official | Former U.S. spy, CIA's chief of disguise. | 4 | 5 |
| Joschka Fischer Former federal foreign minister | Selected | Former official | Former federal foreign minister. | 4 | 5 |
| Kimberly Clausing Professor at UCLA | Selected | Academic | Professor at UCLA. | 4 | 5 |
| Lawrence Douglas James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought · Amherst College | Selected | Academic | Professor James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College. | 4 | 5 |
| Lluís Montoliu | Selected | Academic | Researcher at CSIC, public research organization. | 4 | 5 |
| Mark Kimmitt Retired General | Selected | Former official | Retired general, former military official. | 4 | 5 |
| Martin Griffiths Former UN undersecretary | Selected | Former official | Former UN undersecretary for humanitarian affairs. | 4 | 5 |
| Mary Ziegler Law professor · Yale Law Journal | Selected | Academic | Law professor at Yale Law Journal. | 4 | 5 |
| Matt Levine Bloomberg Opinion | Selected | Commentator | Bloomberg Opinion. | 4 | 5 |
| Matthew Yglesias Author · Slow Boring | Selected | Commentator | Author of Slow Boring newsletter. | 4 | 5 |
| Michael Ignatieff Author, researcher | Selected | Commentator | Author and researcher, writer-scholar. | 4 | 5 |
| Muriel Asseburg Bruno Kreisky Forum | Selected | Think tank | Bruno Kreisky Forum (Austrian think tank). | 4 | 5 |
| Nazareth Castellanos Neuroscientist, science communicator, author | Selected | Academic | Neuroscientist researcher at Complutense University. | 4 | 5 |
| Noa Tishby Israel's former Special Envoy for Combatting Anti-Semitism | Selected | Former official | Israel's former Special Envoy for Combatting Anti-Semitism - Israel. | 4 | 5 |
| Paul Frissen Professor · Tilburg University | Selected | Academic | Prof. dr. Tilburg University. | 4 | 5 |
| Peter Altmaier Former federal economics minister · CDU | Selected | Former official | Former CDU Minister of Economics. | 4 | 5 |
| Raj Chetty Professor · Harvard University | Selected | Academic | Professor, Harvard University institution. | 4 | 5 |
| Robin Sharma Author | Selected | Commentator | Author, Wikidata: self-help writer (nonfiction). | 4 | 5 |
| Rémi Lefebvre Professor of political science · University of Lille | Selected | Academic | Professor of political science at the University of Lille. | 4 | 5 |
| Samira Rafaela Former MEP | Selected | Former official | Former Member of European Parliament, former government official. | 4 | 5 |
| Sophie Scott Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience · UCL | Selected | Academic | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. | 4 | 5 |
| Stephen Breyer Former Supreme Court Justice | Selected | Former official | Former Supreme Court Justice. | 4 | 5 |
| Stephen Walt Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs · Harvard Kennedy School | Selected | Academic | Robert and Renee Belfer Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. | 4 | 5 |
| Steve Webb Sir | Selected | Former official | Former minister and British MP until 2015. | 4 | 5 |
| Sylvie Matelly Director of the Jacques Delors Institute · Institut Jacques Delors | Selected | Think tank | Director of Jacques Delors Institute. | 4 | 5 |
| Toby Nangle Asset manager | Selected | Economist or consultant | Asset manager and FT contributor. | 4 | 5 |
| William von Hippel Former professor of psychology · Ohio State University | Selected | Academic | Professor of psychology, formerly at Ohio State, active in university. | 4 | 5 |
| Zoe Gardner Independent researcher on migration policy | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Independent migration policy researcher; the linked profile is a bare University of Leicester researcher, and another namesake is a policy advocate and writer. | 4 | 5 |
| Álvaro Martín Popularizer | Selected | Commentator | Science communicator. | 4 | 5 |
| Allie Beth Stuckey BlazeTV host | Excluded | Journalist | BlazeTV host. | 3 | 5 |
| Andrew Egger The Bulwark | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist with no demonstrated analytical work. | 3 | 5 |
| Aoife Moore Author and journalist · Sunday Times Ireland | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist and reporter. | 3 | 5 |
| Björn Hedensjö Psychologist, author and podcaster | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Psychologist. | 3 | 5 |
| Daniel Suhonen Chef · Katalys | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 3 | 5 |
| Geoffrey Hinton Nobel laureate · Google | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Nobel Prize winner at Google, not an academic position. | 3 | 5 |
| Guus Valk Political reporter · NRC | Excluded | Journalist | Political correspondent at NRC. | 3 | 5 |
| Jacob Soboroff MS NOW correspondent and bestselling author · MSNBC | Excluded | Journalist | MSNBC correspondent and author. | 3 | 5 |
| José Gregorio González Journalist | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Journalist. | 3 | 5 |
| Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz Minister of Funds and Regional Policy · Trzecia Droga | Excluded | Serving politician | Minister of Funds in office. | 3 | 5 |
| Kevin Doyle Executive Editor · Irish Independent | Excluded | Journalist | General media editor-in-chief, not an analyst. | 3 | 5 |
| Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann FDP MEP | Excluded | Serving politician | FDP MEP, politician in office. | 3 | 5 |
| Matt Chorley Journalist · 5 Live | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist BBC 5 Live. | 3 | 5 |
| Michał Gramatyka Deputy minister of digital affairs · Polski 2050 | Excluded | Serving politician | Deputy and vice minister in office, politician. | 3 | 5 |
| Pippa Crerar Political editor · The Guardian | Excluded | Journalist | Political editor, not analyst. | 3 | 5 |
| Roderich Kiesewetter CDU foreign policy politician | Excluded | Serving politician | CDU politician and member of parliament, politician in office. | 3 | 5 |
| Simon Harris Taoiseach · Irlande | Excluded | Serving politician | Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) IN OFFICE. | 3 | 5 |
| Sébastien Chenu Vice president of the National Assembly, RN deputy · Rassemblement national | Excluded | Serving politician | Member in office, vice-president of National Assembly. | 3 | 5 |
| Thorsten Frei Head of the Chancellery · Bundesregierung | Excluded | Serving politician | Chancellor's Minister Germany. | 3 | 5 |
| Tim Klüssendorf General secretary of the SPD | Excluded | Serving politician | General Secretary SPD (political party). | 3 | 5 |
| Clément Therme Historian of international relations · Passés composés | Selected | Academic | Historian researcher at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier. | 3 | 5 |