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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bert Engelaar ABVV leader | Excluded | Serving politician | Union director, ABVV. | 1 | 1 |
| Bert Fröndhoff Industry team leader · Handelsblatt | Excluded | Journalist | Head of industry team, Handelsblatt. | 1 | 3 |
| Bert Hubert Tech expert | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Technical expert and entrepreneur. | 2 | 3 |
| Bert Kleine Schaars UNIFIL veteran | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bert Slagter Analyst · Bitcoin Alpha | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 8 |
| Bert van der Horst Sleep expert · Erasmus MC | Selected | Academic | Sleep expert at Erasmus MC. | 1 | 1 |
| Bert van Dijk Energy editor · Het Financieele Dagblad | Excluded | Journalist | Energy editor, Financieele Dagblad. | 2 | 5 |
| Bert-Arjan Millenaar Founder · NLC Health | Excluded | Business executive | Founder of NLC Health. | 1 | 1 |
| Berta García Faet | Excluded | Artist | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Berten Vanderbruggen | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Berth Milton | Excluded | Business executive | Swedish company executive, entrepreneur. | 1 | 1 |
| Berthold Kohler F.A.Z. publisher · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Selected | Commentator | FAZ editor. | 1 | 10 |
| Bertil Bengtsson Professor of law and Supreme Court justice · Uppsala | Selected | Academic | Professor of law and judge at Uppsala University. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertil Ekerlid Publisher · Ekerlids Förlag | Excluded | Business executive | Editor and owner of Ekerlids Förlag. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertil Fruelund | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertil Kuhlemann | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertille Bayart Editor-in-chief · Figaro | Selected | Commentator | Editor-in-chief, Figaro. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertrand Badie Emeritus professor · Sciences Po Paris | Selected | Academic | Emeritus Professor at Sciences Po Paris. | 7 | 17 |
| Bertrand Badré Former managing director · World Bank | Selected | Former official | Former General Director of World Bank. | 4 | 5 |
| Bertrand Benoit WSJ reporter · The Wall Street Journal | Excluded | Journalist | Reporter Wall Street Journal | 1 | 1 |
| Bertrand Besancenot Middle East expert | Selected | Former official | Former Ambassador, Middle East expert. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertrand Joly University professor | Selected | Academic | Professor, historian. | 1 | 4 |
| Bertrand Métayer Journalist · Parisien | Excluded | Journalist | Sports section journalist at Le Parisien. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertrand Misonne Author of Mona l'IA | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Fiche non confirmée (incertain) : Introduced as author of Mona l'IA; the profile only says Belgian author, with no field or work to check against. | 1 | 2 |
| Bertrand Périer Lawyer specializing in oratory | Selected | Lawyer | Lawyer specializing in eloquence. | 5 | 8 |
| Bertrand Piccard Explorer, chair of the foundation · Solar Impulse | Excluded | Business executive | Explorer and founder of Solar Impulse. | 2 | 2 |
| Bertrand Rambaud Chairman of Groupe Siparex | Excluded | Business executive | President of Siparex Group. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertrand Schnerb Emeritus professor · University of Lille | Selected | Academic | Emeritus professor of the University of Lille. | 1 | 2 |
| Bertrand Uzeel Co-founder · Welcome to the Jungle | Excluded | Business executive | Co-founder of Welcome to the Jungle. | 1 | 1 |
| Bertrand-Léo Combrade Professor of public law · University of Poitiers | Selected | Academic | Professor of public law, University of Poitiers. | 1 | 1 |
| Besfort Behrami Growth Marketer, Paid Ads & Lead Generation Expert | Excluded | Profession outside the 6 roles | Growth marketer and marketing consultant. | 1 | 1 |
| Besnik Barani Software developer | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Beth Barrett-Wild Director of Women's Professional Game · ECB | Excluded | Business executive | Women's Game Director at ECB. | 1 | 1 |
| Beth Ford CEO · Land O'Lakes | Excluded | Business executive | CEO of Land O'Lakes. | 1 | 1 |
| Beth Hammack Co-head of the Global Financing Group · Goldman Sachs | Excluded | Business executive | Senior executive at Goldman Sachs. | 1 | 1 |
| Beth McKigney Ovative | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Beth Sanner Former PDB briefer to President Trump · intelligence community | Selected | Former official | Former senior intelligence official under President Trump. | 3 | 4 |
| Beth Weinstein | Selected | Commentator | Author of work on architecture and choreography. | 1 | 1 |
| Beth Williams PCLOB | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bethanie Carney Almroth The environmental scientist · University of Gothenburg | Selected | Academic | Ecotoxicologist at University of Gothenburg. | 2 | 2 |
| Bethany Brookshire Author | Selected | Commentator | Author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. | 3 | 5 |
| Bethany Davis Barcode Group | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role. | 1 | 1 |
| Bethany Samson People Director · Investors in People | Selected | Think tank | Director of people at Investors in People. | 1 | 1 |
| Betsy Flores | Excluded | Personal testimony | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Betsy Olim Export Stories Podcast | Excluded | Off-topic profile | Excluded before role classification. | 1 | 1 |
| Bettany Hughes Author | Selected | Commentator | Historian and author. | 4 | 4 |
| Bettina Braunschmidt Researcher and author | Excluded | Position not verifiable | Insufficiently precise role. | 1 | 1 |
| Bettina Emmerling Neos | Excluded | Serving politician | Member of Neos, Austrian political party. | 1 | 1 |
| Bettina Fuhrmann University professor · Vienna University of Economics and Business | Selected | Academic | Professor at University of Economics Vienna. | 1 | 1 |
| Bettina Göring Author | Excluded | Fiction or entertainment | Activity outside the six roles. | 1 | 1 |