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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arielle Garcia Director of Intelligence · CheckMyAds | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of Intelligence at CheckMyAds. | 1 | 1 |
| Arielle Johnson Food scientist | Selected | Academic | Food scientist at MIT. | 2 | 2 |
| Arif Hasan Wide Left | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Arika Okrent Writer | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently clear role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Arild Hermstad Party leader · Miljøpartiet de Grønne (MDG) | Excluded | Serving politician | Party leader, Green Party, serving politician. | 2 | 2 |
| Arild Hille Brokerage chief · Pareto | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Broker chief Pareto, financial company executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Arina Aamir Høyre | Excluded | Serving politician | Policy director, Høyre party. | 1 | 1 |
| Arindrajit Dube Professor · University of Massachusetts Amherst | Selected | Academic | Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst. | 2 | 2 |
| Aris Baiardi Archaeology student · University of Lausanne | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Archaeology student. | 1 | 1 |
| Aris Fioretos Author, essayist and translator | Selected | Commentator | Author, essayist and translator. | 1 | 1 |
| Aristotele D'Angelo Sales manager at Amazon Leo | Excluded | Business executive | Commercial Director, Amazon, company executive. | 1 | 2 |
| Arita Baaijens Writer and explorer | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Explorer. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjan Bos Founder · Earth Matters | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjan Dijkstra Expert in earth materials · University of Twente | Selected | Academic | Rare earth materials expert at Universiteit Twente. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjan Erkel Entrepreneur · Artsen zonder Grenzen | Excluded | Business executive | Entrepreneur, business executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjan Lock Director · EO | Excluded | Business executive | EO Director, organization director. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjan Noorlander Political explainer · Nieuwsuur | Selected | Commentator | Political analyst at Nieuwsuur, political analyst. | 1 | 5 |
| Arjan Nuijten Drug historian | Selected | Academic | Researcher, University of Amsterdam. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjan Singh Consultant and adjunct professor · Southern Methodist University | Selected | Academic | Adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjan Veering Editor · FD | Excluded | Journalist | Editor · Financial Daily | 1 | 2 |
| Arjen Boin Professor · Leiden University | Selected | Academic | Professor at University of Leiden. | 2 | 2 |
| Arjen de Wit Sociologist · Vrije Universiteit | Selected | Academic | Sociologist at Vrije Universiteit. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjen Mulder Writer | Selected | Commentator | Essayist writer. | 2 | 2 |
| Arjen Ribbens | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently clear role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Arjen van der Horst Correspondent | Excluded | Journalist | Correspondent. | 2 | 5 |
| Arkadiusz Czartoryski MP · Prawo i Sprawiedliwość | Excluded | Serving politician | Deputy in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Arkadiusz Kups Major | Excluded | Serving politician | Major, military officer in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Arkadiusz Marciniak Archaeologist · Adam Mickiewicz University in Posen | Selected | Academic | Archaeologist at Adam Mickiewicz University. | 1 | 1 |
| Arkadiusz Michlewicz Journalist · Radio Eska | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist at Radio Eska. | 1 | 1 |
| Arkadiusz Myrcha Deputy head of the justice ministry · KO | Excluded | Serving politician | Vice-Minister of Justice, vice-minister IN OFFICE. | 1 | 2 |
| Arkadiusz Stempin Political scientist and historian · Uczelni Korczaka w Warszawie i Uniwersytetu we Fryburgu | Selected | Academic | Profesor, historian and political scientist at multiple universities. | 2 | 4 |
| Arkady Ostrovsky Russia editor · The Economist | Selected | Commentator | Russia editor, The Economist, domain specialist analyst. | 1 | 1 |
| Arlette Darmon Notary · Groupe Monassier | Selected | Lawyer | Notary at Groupe Monassier. | 1 | 1 |
| Arlette Wismer Yodeller | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Arlindo Oliveira President · INESC | Selected | Academic | Presidente INESC, university and research institution. | 6 | 7 |
| Arman Alizad Documentary maker, producer, journalist | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Documentary specialist, producer, editor, journalist/producer. | 2 | 2 |
| Armand Sprecher Epidemiologist · Doctors Without Borders | Selected | Academic | Epidemiologist researcher. | 1 | 1 |
| Armand Zorn Deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group | Excluded | Serving politician | Member of Bundestag, in office. | 2 | 2 |
| Armando Muis Entrepreneur · La Souris | Excluded | Business executive | Entrepreneur, business owner. | 1 | 1 |
| Armando Vieira Businessman and consultant in artificial intelligence | Selected | Economist or consultant | Artificial Intelligence consultant. | 1 | 1 |
| Armelle Camelin Journalist · Le Parisien | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist at Le Parisien. | 1 | 1 |
| Armin Arefi Senior reporter | Excluded | Journalist | Senior reporter and documentary filmmaker. | 1 | 1 |
| Armin Berger | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Armin Coerper Moscow correspondent · ZDF auslandsjournal | Excluded | Journalist | Moscow correspondent and ZDF studio chief. | 1 | 2 |
| Armin Ghassim NDR journalist | Excluded | Journalist | NDR journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Armin Laschet Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag · CDU | Excluded | Serving politician | Chair Foreign Affairs Committee Bundestag, politician IN OFFICE. | 2 | 2 |
| Armin Schaus Colonel · Bundeswehr | Excluded | Serving politician | Colonel in Bundeswehr. | 1 | 1 |
| Armin Thurnher FALTER publisher | Selected | Commentator | FALTER publisher and book author, current affairs analysis. | 2 | 7 |
| Armin Wagner | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Armin Wolf ZiB anchor | Excluded | Journalist | ZiB news anchor (TV news presenter). | 1 | 1 |