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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wise Two Artist | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wisława Szymborska | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Polish poet, not commentator (poetry is fiction). | 1 | 1 |
| Wissenschaftlicher Direktor Scientific director · Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Witold Boguta | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Witold Gadowski | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Polish war correspondent and journalist, not commentator. | 1 | 2 |
| Witold Jurasz Onet | Excluded | Journalist | Onet, website without role. | 1 | 1 |
| Witold Modzelewski Professor | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Politics radio guest announced only as a professor; general history and geopolitics talk does not specifically tie him to this Warsaw jurist. | 2 | 2 |
| Witold Rakowski Expert | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Only introduced as an expert on Iran; nothing ties him to this economist-geographer, who was born in 1936. | 1 | 1 |
| Witold Rodkiewicz Expert · OSW | Selected | Think tank | Expert, OSW (think tank). | 2 | 3 |
| Witold Sokała Political scientist, security expert, lecturer · Jan Kochanowski University | Selected | Academic | Political scientist, teacher at university. | 3 | 5 |
| Witold Szabłowski | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Polish journalist and reporter, not commentator. | 1 | 1 |
| Witold Zadowski Radio reporter | Excluded | Journalist | Radio reporter, reporter | 1 | 1 |
| Witold Zembaczyński | Excluded | Serving politician | Polish politician in office, member of Sejm. | 1 | 1 |
| Wladimir Klitschko Former boxer | Excluded | Serving politician | Former boxer. | 1 | 1 |
| Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz Minister of Defence · MON | Excluded | Serving politician | Minister of Defence in office (MON). | 1 | 2 |
| Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski Deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych | Excluded | Serving politician | Vice-Head Ministry of Foreign Affairs in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Selected | Former official | Former Prime Minister of Poland (ended 1997). | 3 | 3 |
| Włodzimierz Czarzasty Politician | Excluded | Serving politician | Politician. | 2 | 2 |
| Włodzimierz P. Rdzanek Former manager | Excluded | Business executive | Former company manager. | 1 | 1 |
| Włodzimierz Sokołowski Colonel · wywiadu polskiego | Excluded | Serving politician | Colonel in Polish intelligence, active. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Balczun Minister of state assets | Excluded | Serving politician | Minister of State in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Bonowicz Poet | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Poet (fiction). | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Chmielarz Author | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Fiction author, novels. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Doroszewicz | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Drewniak | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Engelking | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Fibak ATP tournament winner, Wimbledon semifinalist | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Ganczarek Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of non-fiction books. | 2 | 5 |
| Wojciech Górecki Analyst · Ośrodka Studiów Wschodnich | Selected | Think tank | Analyst, OSW (think tank). | 8 | 14 |
| Wojciech Hermeliński Former chair of the State Election Commission · Państwowa Komisja Wyborcza | Selected | Former official | Former chief of Electoral Commission. | 4 | 6 |
| Wojciech Jagielski | Excluded | Journalist | Empty position, article title. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Jakóbik Energy expert | Selected | Commentator | Polish journalist and energy expert/analyst specializing in energy. | 3 | 3 |
| Wojciech Jan Pytkowski Founder of the band · Zdobywcy Pewnych Oskarów | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Jóźwiak Practitioner of neoshamanism, symbols researcher | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Practitioner of neoshamanism and symbol researcher (esoteric, outside roles). | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Konieczny Deputy minister of health | Excluded | Serving politician | Vice-Minister, in office. | 1 | 2 |
| Wojciech Konończuk Director · Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich | Selected | Think tank | Director of OSW (think tank). | 6 | 13 |
| Wojciech Lobodziński | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Polak Primate of Poland | Excluded | Serving politician | Primat de Pologne, religious leader. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Samolinski Collaborator of KOR · Komitet Obrony Robotników | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Sumliński Psychologist, investigative journalist, publicist, film director | Selected | Commentator | Polish publicist, investigative journalist, essayist. | 3 | 6 |
| Wojciech Szacki | Selected | Commentator | Journalist and analyst at Polityka Insight. | 3 | 41 |
| Wojciech Telenga President of 4Results Digital | Excluded | Business executive | Chief executive officer. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Tygielski Professor · Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego | Selected | Academic | Professor, University of Warsaw. | 1 | 2 |
| Wojciech Waglewski Musician | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojciech Woźniak Dr. hab. | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Announced only as dr hab. on Finland and Nokia; nothing ties him to this Warsaw archivist, and the name is common. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojtek Jezierski History professor | Selected | Academic | Polish historian and medievalist, university teacher. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojtek Kaczmarczyk YouTuber, conference host | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojtek Kardyś Social media and communications expert | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojtek Soczewica Director of the Fondation Auschwitz-Birkenau | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. | 1 | 1 |
| Wojtek Sokół Rapper | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |