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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henrietta Levin Senior Fellow · CSIS | Selected | Think tank | Senior Fellow at CSIS, think tank. | 2 | 3 |
| Henrik Dalgard Author | Selected | Commentator | Author, writer. | 2 | 4 |
| Henrik Milton Manager · Brock Milton Capital | Selected | Economist or consultant | Fund manager at Brock Milton Capital. | 2 | 2 |
| Henrique Leitão Physicist, historian of science · Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Universidade de Lisboa | Selected | Academic | Physicist and historian of science at University of Lisbon. | 2 | 2 |
| Henryk Domański Professor | Selected | Academic | Prof., Polish sociologist. | 2 | 3 |
| Hervé Leuwers Historian | Selected | Academic | Historian at University of Lille. | 2 | 3 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton Former Secretary of State | Selected | Former official | Former Secretary of State. | 2 | 2 |
| Hiski Haukkala Director · Ulkopoliittisen instituutin | Selected | Think tank | Director Ulkopoliittisen instituutin (think tank of foreign policy). | 2 | 2 |
| Huggy Rao Professor · Stanford | Selected | Academic | Professor, Stanford University. | 2 | 2 |
| Hugh Pym Health editor · BBC News | Selected | Commentator | Health editor, BBC News. | 2 | 3 |
| Hugo von Essen Analyst · Centrum för Östeuropastudier, UI | Selected | Think tank | Analyst Center for Eastern European Studies UI. | 2 | 6 |
| Hussein Ibish Scholar | Selected | Think tank | Senior fellow at Gulf institute. | 2 | 2 |
| Huub Wijfjes Media historian | Selected | Academic | Media historian, university teacher. | 2 | 2 |
| Håkan Jönsson Ethnologist and author | Selected | Academic | Ethnologist, academic title. | 2 | 4 |
| Ian Morris Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor in History · Stanford University | Selected | Academic | Professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. | 2 | 3 |
| Ib Ravn Researcher, teacher and author | Selected | Academic | Researcher and university instructor. | 2 | 2 |
| Ignacio Martínez Mendizábal Paleontologist | Selected | Academic | Paleontologist, University Alcalá. | 2 | 2 |
| Ilya Strebulaev Professor · Stanford Graduate School of Business | Selected | Academic | Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business. | 2 | 2 |
| Ingvild Borgen Portfolio manager for tactical allocation · DNB Asset Management | Selected | Economist or consultant | Portfolio manager at DNB Asset Management. | 2 | 2 |
| Isabell Schierenbeck Professor of political science | Selected | Academic | Professor of Political Science. | 2 | 5 |
| Isabella Ahmadi Consumer expert · Prisjakt | Selected | Economist or consultant | Consumer expert at Prisjakt. | 2 | 2 |
| Ismeni Walter Professor of environmental journalism · Ansbach University of Applied Sciences | Selected | Academic | Female professor of Environmental Journalism, Hochschule Ansbach. | 2 | 3 |
| Ivan Oransky Retraction Watch | Selected | Think tank | Retraction Watch, scientific analysis organization. | 2 | 3 |
| Iñaki Piñuel | Selected | Academic | Psychologist, University of Alcalá. | 2 | 2 |
| Jack Devine Acting Director and Associate Director of CIA operations | Selected | Former official | Former CIA director and associate director of operations. | 2 | 15 |
| Jacob Bloomfield University of Konstanz | Selected | Academic | Affiliation with University of Konstanz mentioned. | 2 | 2 |
| Jacques Rupnik Research director · Sciences Po Paris | Selected | Think tank | Research director at Sciences Po, research center. | 2 | 2 |
| Jacques Wallage Former informateur · PvdA | Selected | Former official | Former informant and PvdA figure (former politician). | 2 | 5 |
| Jakub Borowski Chief economist · Credit Agricole | Selected | Economist or consultant | Chief Economist at Credit Agricole. | 2 | 3 |
| James Beacham Particle physicist · Large Hadron Collider at CERN | Selected | Academic | Particle physicist at Large Hadron Collider at CERN. | 2 | 3 |
| James Burke Science historian | Selected | Commentator | Science historian and broadcaster, science history analyst. | 2 | 2 |
| James Galbraith US economist | Selected | Academic | Professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. | 2 | 2 |
| James Levy Analyst of US politics · Merrill Lynch | Selected | Economist or consultant | US policy analyst at Merrill Lynch (bank). | 2 | 6 |
| James Simpson Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of Manufactured Crisis. | 2 | 2 |
| Jamil Anderlini Editor-in-Chief · POLITICO | Selected | Commentator | Editor-in-Chief of POLITICO. | 2 | 8 |
| Jan Ketil Arnulf Professor | Selected | Academic | Professor of Management and Organizational Psychology, university. | 2 | 3 |
| Janet Todd | Selected | Academic | British writer and university teacher at University of East Anglia. | 2 | 2 |
| Janina Ramirez Bestselling historian | Selected | Academic | British art historian, lecturer at University of Oxford. | 2 | 2 |
| Jannah Loontjens Philosopher and writer | Selected | Commentator | Dutch poet philosopher, non-fiction essayist. | 2 | 2 |
| Janne Wallenius Professor of reactor physics · KTH | Selected | Academic | Professor of nuclear physics, KTH. | 2 | 3 |
| Jared Holz Healthcare Equity Strategist · Mizuho | Selected | Economist or consultant | Healthcare Equity Strategist in banking. | 2 | 2 |
| Jay Barry Head of global rates strategy · JPMorgan Securities | Selected | Economist or consultant | Head of global rates strategy at JPMorgan Securities. | 2 | 2 |
| Jay Ritter Director · The IPO Initiative at the University of Florida | Selected | Academic | Director of IPO Initiative at University of Florida. | 2 | 2 |
| Jean Tirole Nobel Prize in Economics | Selected | Academic | Nobel Prize in Economics, researcher. | 2 | 2 |
| Jean-Pierre Cabestan Research director · CNRS et Hong Kong Baptist University | Selected | Academic | Research director at CNRS and Hong Kong Baptist University. | 2 | 2 |
| Jean-Pierre Raffarin Former prime minister, president of Prospectives et Innovations and Leaders pour la paix | Selected | Former official | Former Prime Minister, founder of leadership associations. | 2 | 3 |
| Jeffrey Lewis | Selected | Academic | Nuclear non-proliferation researcher, university. | 2 | 5 |
| Jen Palmieri Former White House communications director | Selected | Former official | Former White House communications director. | 2 | 2 |
| Jennette McCurdy Former child actor | Selected | Commentator | Former child actor and bestselling non-fiction author. | 2 | 2 |
| Jennifer Hillman Professor · Georgetown University Law Center | Selected | Academic | Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. | 2 | 2 |