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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yusuf Cakin Historian | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Yusuf Khan WSJ reporter · The Wall Street Journal | Excluded | Journalist | WSJ Reporter The Wall Street Journal. | 1 | 1 |
| Yuval Atsmon Head of McKinsey's finance function · McKinsey & Company | Selected | Economist or consultant | Head of McKinsey's finance function, McKinsey & Company consultant. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvan Figueiras | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvan Figuerias Writer and specialist in maritime mysteries | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvan Lengwiler Macroeconomics professor · University of Basel | Selected | Academic | Macroeconomics Professor at University of Basel. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvan Touhami Co-founder · Com AI | Excluded | Business executive | Co-founder of Com AI, communication company. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Bertoncini | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : EU trade and French politics guest; the bare profile has no organization or domain to match, so nothing precise confirms it. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Censi Senior Partner · Mascaret | Selected | Economist or consultant | Senior Partner at Mascaret consulting firm. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Choueifaty Investment fund manager · TOBAM | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Investment fund manager, investor not an economist. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Degryse NTGent | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Belgian actor working at NTGent. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Doz Professor · INSEAD | Selected | Academic | Professor at INSEAD, business school/university. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Marignac Energy expert and spokesperson for the négaWatt association | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Energy expert and spokesperson for negaWatt association, activist. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Segers Author | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Tyrode CEO, Digital & Payments · Groupe BPCE | Excluded | Business executive | General director of Digital and Payments, BPCE financial group. | 1 | 1 |
| Yves Van Nuland mentoring@work | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvon Jaspers Presenter | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvonne Björnström Technical head of Vattenfall hydropower | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Technical director at Vattenfall, energy company. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvonne Gozon | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvonne Ott Constitutional judge · Bundesverfassungsgericht | Excluded | Serving politician | Constitutional Court Judge (female), in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Yvonne Pedersen Nurse · Läger Uden Grænser | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Zabie Elmgren Andreessen Horowitz | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Andreessen Horowitz venture capital executive. | 1 | 1 |
| Zac Castillo Watch Adicto LLC | Excluded | Business executive | Leader of Watch Adicto LLC. | 1 | 1 |
| Zac Garside Send It | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Email marketing director at Send It company. | 1 | 1 |
| Zach Cohen Consumer partner · a16z | Selected | Economist or consultant | Consumer partner at a16z (venture capital/investment). | 1 | 1 |
| Zach Holbrooks Head · Gaines County Health Department, Texas | Excluded | Business executive | Director of public health agency, local official. | 1 | 1 |
| Zach Lloyd Founder and CEO · Warp | Excluded | Business executive | Founder and CEO of Warp. | 1 | 1 |
| Zach Price Professor of Law · UC Law San Francisco | Selected | Academic | Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco. | 1 | 1 |
| Zach Weinersmith Author | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Author cartoonist, illustrator, does not match roles. | 1 | 1 |
| Zach Weiss | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficient text to determine. | 1 | 1 |
| Zachary Blount Evolutionary biologist · Michigan State University | Selected | Academic | Evolutionary biologist at Michigan State University. | 1 | 1 |
| Zachary Crockett | Excluded | Journalist | Journalist, no indicated function or organization. | 1 | 1 |
| Zachary Kimball PE, MBA, VP of Finance and Strategic Planning · Citation Oil and Gas Corp | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | VP of Finance and Strategic Planning, oil company. | 1 | 1 |
| Zachary Treitz Creator · Netflix | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Creator of Netflix documentary, producer/filmmaker. | 1 | 1 |
| Zack Gómez-Rolls Actor | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Zack White Historian | Selected | Commentator | Historian and podcast host, public history analyst. | 1 | 1 |
| Zafer Achi Executive coach, team coach · McKinsey & Company | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Executive coach at McKinsey, professional coach. | 1 | 1 |
| Zahid Ali Comedian and author | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Zaineb Al-Samarai Sports president | Excluded | Serving politician | Sports president, currently in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Zak Ali General Manager · Finder | Excluded | Business executive | General Manager of Finder. | 1 | 1 |
| Zak Williams CEO and co-founder · PYM | Excluded | Business executive | CEO and co-founder of PYM. | 1 | 1 |
| Zakaria Boufangacha Vice chair · FNV | Excluded | Serving politician | Vice-Chair (vice-president) FNV, union leader. | 1 | 1 |
| Zakia Sewell Writer, DJ & broadcaster | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Zakiya Gibbons Award-winning journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Award-winning journalist, podcast host and producer. | 1 | 1 |
| Zane Rowe CFO · Workday | Excluded | Business executive | CFO of Workday, tech company leader. | 1 | 1 |
| Zara Hedderman Arts and Music Journalist | Excluded | Journalist | Arts and Music Journalist, cultural section. | 1 | 1 |
| Zarah Sultana Member of Parliament | Excluded | Serving politician | Member of Parliament (British deputy) in office. | 1 | 1 |
| Zarina Del Mar Fitness personality | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Fitness personality, health/fitness influencer. | 1 | 1 |
| Zbigniew Herbert Polish poet | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Polish poet, poet/fiction. | 1 | 1 |
| Zbigniew Kuźmiuk Member of parliament · Prawo i Sprawiedliwość | Excluded | Serving politician | Law and Justice deputy, politician. | 1 | 1 |