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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ton F. van Dijk Television journalist and broadcast executive · NPO | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Television journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Tone Danielsen Social anthropologist · Norwegian Defence Research Establishment | Selected | Academic | Social anthropologist at Forsvarets research institute. | 1 | 1 |
| Tone Erlien Myrvold Master student · NTNU | Selected | Academic | Master student NTNU, attached to university. | 1 | 1 |
| Tone H. Bachke Chief financial officer · Telenor | Excluded | Business executive | Finance Director at Telenor, company executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Tone Vangen Emergency preparedness director · Politidirektoratet | Excluded | Serving politician | Preparedness director Police Directorate. | 1 | 1 |
| Tone Varmann Arctic Global Select | Selected | Economist or consultant | Arctic Global Select, investment manager. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Faber Cathedral priest | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Glover Eyewitness | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Laaksonen CEO · Glaston | Excluded | Business executive | CEO at Glaston. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Loh Professorship in applied ethics · Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Siegen | Selected | Academic | Professor of Applied Ethics, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni López | Excluded | Journalist | Position not specified. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Mononen | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |
| Toñi Moreno Communicator | Excluded | Journalist | Communicator, host. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Negri Philosopher | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (non) : Philosopher interviewed in 2025 and 2026 on current scandals; the linked Antonio Negri died in 2023. Namesake. | 1 | 2 |
| Toni Steimle UX designer | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | UX designer, technical profession. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Stenström Non-fiction writer | Selected | Commentator | Non-fiction author. | 2 | 3 |
| Toni Townes-Whitley CEO · SAIC | Excluded | Business executive | CEO of SAIC. | 1 | 1 |
| Toni Vartiainen Director of the cybersecurity business · DNA | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Cybersecurity business leader at DNA, executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Tonia Mastrobuoni Correspondent · La Repubblica | Excluded | Journalist | Correspondent La Repubblica. | 2 | 2 |
| Tonino Perna | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Tonja Bollinger Schweizer Dachverband Lesen und Schreiben | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Swiss federation, association. | 1 | 1 |
| Tonje Gjevjon Artist | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Tonje Grunnan Senior researcher · FFI | Selected | Academic | Senior Researcher FFI, public research institute. | 1 | 1 |
| Tonje Tellefsen Journalist · Kapital | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist Kapital. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Aguilar Retired Green Beret Lt. Col. · Gaza Humanitarian Foundation | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Bellew Boxing Analyst & Pundit · DAZN Group | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Boxing analyst DAZN Group. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Blair Former Prime Minister | Selected | Former official | Former Prime Minister of Great Britain. | 6 | 6 |
| Tony Cascarino | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Dalwood Chief Executive Officer · Gresham House | Excluded | Business executive | Chief Executive Officer at Gresham House. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Deane Col. | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Diver US editor · The Telegraph | Excluded | Journalist | US editor at Telegraph. | 2 | 2 |
| Tony Hawk | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Holohan Dr. | Selected | Academic et Former official | Former Chief Medical Officer of Ireland, professor at Trinity College Dublin. | 2 | 2 |
| Tony King Professor | Selected | Academic | Professor, explicit academic title. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Lee Moral BBC Natural History Unit | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony O'Donoghue RTE Soccer Correspondent | Excluded | Journalist | RTE soccer correspondent. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Parsons Author and journalist | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Author and journalist. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Pollard Professor | Selected | Academic | University teacher at University of Glasgow. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Robbins Author, coach and entrepreneur | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Author, coach and entrepreneur. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Shaffer Fmr CIA | Selected | Former official | Former CIA, Lt. Col. | 9 | 96 |
| Tony Smithers Head of Events · Dublin City Council | Excluded | Business executive | Head of Events at Dublin City Council, public executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Spring Chairman and C.E.O. · Macy's Inc. | Excluded | Business executive | Chairman and CEO, Macy's Inc. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony van der Togt Eastern Europe expert · instituut Clingendael | Selected | Think tank | Eastern Europe specialist at Clingendael Institute. | 1 | 1 |
| Tony Wyss-Coray Director of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience · Wu Tsai Neuro | Selected | Academic | Director of Knight Initiative, Wu Tsai Neuro. | 2 | 3 |
| Tonya Lewis Lee Filmmaker and entrepreneur | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Toomas Eelsoo | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 2 |
| Toon De Pauw | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Topher Payne Playwright | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Topi Manner CEO · Elisa | Excluded | Business executive | CEO at Elisa and Finnair. | 2 | 4 |
| Topi Turunen Researcher | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role in texts. | 1 | 1 |