BILDERBERG
(featured image: Interalpen-Hotel; Telfs-Buchen, Austria)
Update: December 29, 2016, the international Anonymous Group (anonofficial.com) hacked Bilderberg’s website and froze the page with there own page: “Message to the People… This World order is conduCted by grouPs which are composed of WeALthy 1% uber-Elite and CorrUpted empowered Politicians. DoNt follOw theIr proPagaNda sayIng this situation Is not TruE or Paranoia-driven. post cold-war LiberaL capitalism has managed tO wideSpreAd *IDEA* that $$$ equals hapiness and should be a lifegoal for the 99%.”
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Introduction to Power by Association
Bilderberg says it is ‘a forum for informal discussions about major issues facing the world.’ At www.bilderbergmeetings.org they state, ‘The Bilderberg meeting is an annual meeting designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. Bilderberg was established in 1954 as a forum for informal discussions, bringing together individuals who share an active interest in affairs relevant to the relationship between Europe and Northern America. The meeting has one main goal: to foster discussion and dialogue. There is no desired outcome, there is no closing statement, there are no resolutions proposed or votes taken.’
If there ‘is no desired outcome’ than what is the point of the ‘designed’ platform for ‘dialogue?’ Do you take us all for fools? It is interesting that the Trilateral Commission was created in the same manner. “The Commission was originally created in 1973 to bring together experienced leaders within the private sector to discuss issues of global concern at a time when communication and cooperation between Europe, North America, and Asia were lacking (www.trilateral.org 10/2016).” And that Commission was originally set up to be temporary for ‘3 years,’ but of course as these International Committees with their sense of pride and power are almost always ongoing in the same manner as Corporate entities; they may change their names as that League of Nations transformed into the United Nations, but they typically grow in membership (UN – about 195 nations representing 99% of the world) and both Trilateral and Bilderberg expanded in membership and power.
And do not miss the fact that the Rockefellers were key and the set up and continuance of Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Carter was a Rockefeller advisor. And Gerard Smith, son of John T. Smith (chief counsel for General Motors), was an adviser during SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), founder of Consultants International Group, on the Atomic Energy Commission, friend and counsel to David Rockefeller (Chairman Chase Bank) and Trilateral’s first Chairman. Robert Bowie (died 2013 at age 104), co-founder with Henry Kissinger (Bilderberg principal, Trilateral Comm., CFR, Sec. of State, etc.) of the Center for International Affairs (1958), was a chief member of CFR, Trilateral, CIA (Chief National Intelligence Officer) and the America Academy of Diplomacy, as well as recipient of the Legion of Merit, Order of Merit, and friend of David Rockefeller. And George Franklin, with the CFR from 1945 to 1971, was its executive director from 1953 to 1971, a member of the Trilateral Commission and longtime associate of David Rockefeller.
And these power elites are not satisfied until they have a portion of control in all world matters. It was Rockefeller’s friend and associate John McCloy who ran much of the War Department during WWII with Sec. Stimson (of J. P. Morgan Bank). And it was McCloy who was president of the World Bank (U.N.) and who introduced Professor Henry Kissinger to Rockefeller. And McCloy’s brother-in-law Lewis Douglas, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, was a board member on the CFR. And when President Truman entered the Korean War, he created the Office of Defense Mobilization to assist we our domestic economy, and placed Charles Wilson, president of J. P. Morgan controlled General Electric Company. Charles took in Sidney Weinbeig of Goldman Sachs and Lucius Clay of the Lehman Corporation. And after McCloy was president of the World Bank, Eugene Black (V.P. Chase Bank) served a term until Winthrop Aldrich, brother-in-law to John D. Rockefeller, Jr, took the post as World Bank president.
As reported in our blog Exposing the Sorcerers, Under the section, Applying for Individual Membership, at The Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org 2016) it writes, “’The convening power of CFR is unparalleled, attracting the most prominent world leaders in government and business.’ – CFR Board Co-Chairs ‘ Understand, the convening power of these ‘behind the scene’ ‘clubs, groups, and institutions,’ is quite simply their ability to gather such influential ‘world leaders’ to central meeting places where they move from becoming acquaintances to becoming ambassadors to and for each other’s common agendas.”
And George Franklin was quoted in Trilateral Commission Task Force Reports from 1978 (report 9-14; p. 268), “The economic officials of at least the largest countries must begin to think in terms of managing a single world economy in addition to managing international economic relations among countries.” Yet, when asked on a KLMG Radio program in July 1979, ‘Is the Trilateral commission presently involved in any effort to make a one-world?’ Franklin said, ‘definitely not. We have not. We have no one-world doctrine. Our only belief is …that this world will somehow do better, if the advanced industrial democracy that serves Japan and the United States can cooperate…’ Next, he was asked, ‘Why is it, in the Trilateral Commission that the name David Rockefeller shows up so persistenly…?’ Franklin: ‘Well, this is very reasonable. David Rockefeller is the Chairman of the North American group. There are three chairman; one …N. American… one is the Japanese group, and one is the European group.’
Likewise, Dan Smoot, formerly in the FBI Headquarters, stated, ‘The ultimate aim of the CFR is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.’ Even by 1980, over 300 members of CFR were U.S. Government officials.
In Brzezinski’s book, ‘Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (1970),’ he wrote, “”Marxism disseminated on the popular level in the form of Communism, represented a major advance in man’s ability to conceptualize his relationship to his world… The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.” In his book, he also spoke of meetings between “201 Christian and Marxist philosophers, theologians and scientists from 16 European countries and the United States… theme ‘Creativity and Freedom in a Human Society’ …Christian-Marxist Dialogue… (meetings 1967).”
Brzezinski was a professor in New York City; David Rockefeller read his book and in 1973 launched the Trilateral Commission. In his book, What is the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission? Jack Newell wrote, “The original literature of The Trilateral Commission also states, exactly as Brzezinski’s book had proposed, that the more advanced Communist States could become partners in the alliance leading to world government. In short, David Rockefeller implemented Brzezinski’s proposal.” On March 21, 1978, “The New York Times” featured an article about Zbigniew Brzezinski’s close relationship with the President (Carter). In part, it reads: “The two men met for the first time four years ago when Mr. Brzezinski was executive director of The Trilateral Commission… and had the foresight to ask the then obscure former Governor of Georgia to join its distinguished ranks. Their initial teacher-student relationship blossomed during the campaign, and appears to have grown closer still.”
During the 1976 political campaign, Jimmy Carter repeatedly told the nation that he was going to get rid of the Establishment Insiders if he became president; as did Hillary Clinton. But when he took office, he filled his Administration with 284 members of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission, the two most prominent insider organizations in America. Included in this list of members of The Trilateral Commission were Walter Mondale and Dr. Henry Kissinger. Beginning with Jimmy Carter, all the recent presidents, including President Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, have promptly filled their administrations with members of the Council on Foreign relations and The Trilateral Commission. Very Secretary of State since Kissinger has been a member of CFR and or the Trilateral Commission and or Bilderberg.
Barry Goldwater once stated, “The Trilateral Commission is international, and it is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.”
Before Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was elected President, in 1991/1992 he was courted by Rockefeller and Bilderberg. Likewise, Tony Blair was in 1993 before becoming the Prime Minister. Likewise, Hillary Clinton attended Bilderberg at least twice (1997, 2006), and Barack Obama did in 2008 before becoming President.
Of course not all members of these organization are out to destroy America’s culture and sovereignty; nevertheless, by and due to their consent and participation, America’s culture not only changes conforming to the United Nations and Bilderberg agendas, but it loses some of its own power every decade, until at some point in the future, the power elites of the Central Banks will fund all wars and run the world.
WHAT IS BILDERBERG?
The Bilderberg is the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, where the first ‘Bilderberg Meeting’ was held in May 1954. According to their site, “Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg conference is an annual meeting designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. Every year, between 120-150 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media are invited to take part in the conference. About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; approximately one third from politics and government and the rest from other fields. The conference is a forum for informal discussions about major issues facing the world. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed.” Bilderberg is ran by its Steering Committee.
STEERING COMMITTEE
Steering Committee
CHAIRMAN 2016
Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
Agius, Marcus (GBR), Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group
Altman, Roger C. (USA), Executive Chairman, Evercore
Apunen, Matti (FIN), Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Former President of the European Commission
Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson Dunn
Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El País
Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus Group
Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive and Chief International and Public Affairs Officer, Haldor Topsøe A/S
Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV
Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings; Professor of Economics, Leiden University
Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard
Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies
Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Koç, Ömer M. (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), President American Friends of Bilderberg; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group
Mundie, Craig J. (USA), Principal, Mundie & Associates
O’Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair Plc
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co.
Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc.
Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Thiel, Peter A. (USA), President, Thiel Capital
Wallenberg, Jacob (SWE), Chairman, Investor AB
Zoellick, Robert B. (USA), Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group
ADVISORY GROUP
David Rockefeller (USA)
FORMER STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
CHAIRMEN
Bernhard of the Netherlands (NLD)
Alec Home of the Hirsel (GBR)
Walter Scheel (DEU)
Eric Roll of Ipsden (GBR)
Peter Carrington (GBR)
Etienne Davignon (BEL)
HONORARY SECRETARIES GENERAL
John S. Coleman (USA)
Paul van Zeeland (BEL)
Joseph H. Retinger (GBR)
Joseph E. Johnson (USA)
Arnold Th. Lamping (Deputy) (NLD)
Ernst H. van der Beugel (NLD)
William P. Bundy (USA)
Paul B. Finney (USA)
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. (USA)
Casimir A. Yost (USA)
Victor Halberstadt (NLD)
J. Martin Taylor (GBR)
Significant members/attendees of Bilderberg have included: Edmond de Rothschild (France); David Rockefeller (US); Henry Kissinger (US); Timothy Geithner (US); Roger Altman (US); Paul Volcker (Federal Reserve Chairman); Robert Zoellick (Pres. of the World Bank); Presidents Ford, Bush, Clinton, Obama; Chris Hughes (co-founder of Facebook); Eric Schmidt (CEO Google); Peter Sutherland (Ire); Klaus Schwab (Int); Conrad Black (CAN); King Philippe of Belgium; Prince Charles of Wales; Prince Phillip (Sco); Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (1954-1975); Prime Ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron; King Harald of Norway; King Juan Carlos of Spain; Chancellors of Austria; Prime Ministers of Canada, including Pierre Trudeau (1968-1984) and Stephen Harper (2006-2015); Premiers of Canada, including Nigel Wright; heads of the European Union; Prime Ministers of Finland; Prime Minister of France Georges Pompidou; German Chancellors including Angela Merkel; Prime Ministers of Italy, Portugal and Spain; Representatives of Greece, Iceland, Japan, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, etc.; and numerous representatives, leaders, and CEOs of the United Nations and the world’s largest Banks and Corporations.
BILDERBERG 2016
The 64th Bilderberg conference took place in Dresden, Germany, June 2016. It had around 130 participants from 20 countries. According to their website: “As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media have been invited.” The list of participants is available on www.bilderbergmeetings.org.
The key topics for discussion this year included:
- Current events
- China
- Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity
- Middle East
- Russia
- US political landscape, economy: growth, debt, reform
- Cyber security
- Geo-politics of energy and commodity prices
- Precariat and middle class
- Technological innovation
PARTICIPANTS of the 2016 meeting included:
CHAIRMAN
Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
Aboutaleb, Ahmed (NLD), Mayor, City of Rotterdam
Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting Group
Ahrenkiel, Thomas (DNK), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence
Albuquerque, Maria Luís (PRT), Former Minister of Finance; MP, Social Democratic Party
Alierta, César (ESP), Executive Chairman and CEO, Telefónica
Altman, Roger C. (USA), Executive Chairman, Evercore
Altman, Sam (USA), President, Y Combinator
Andersson, Magdalena (SWE), Minister of Finance
Applebaum, Anne (USA), Columnist Washington Post; Director of the Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute
Apunen, Matti (FIN), Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
Aydin-Düzgit, Senem (TUR), Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Istanbul Bilgi University
Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), CEO, Artemis
Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Former President of the European Commission
Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Bengio, Yoshua (CAN), Professor in Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal
Benko, René (AUT), Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board, SIGNA Holding GmbH
Bernabè, Franco (ITA), Chairman, CartaSi S.p.A.
Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
Blanchard, Olivier (FRA), Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute
Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
Breedlove, Philip M. (INT), Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Brende, Børge (NOR), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El País
Charpentier, Emmanuelle (FRA), Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Coeuré, Benoît (INT), Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Costamagna, Claudio (ITA), Chairman, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A.
Cote, David M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Honeywell
Cryan, John (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG
Dassù, Marta (ITA), Senior Director, European Affairs, Aspen Institute
Dijksma, Sharon A.M. (NLD), Minister for the Environment
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), CEO, Axel Springer SE
Dyvig, Christian (DNK), Chairman, Kompan
Ebeling, Thomas (DEU), CEO, ProSiebenSat.1
Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus Group
Engel, Richard (USA), Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
Fabius, Laurent (FRA), President, Constitutional Council
Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive, Haldor Topsøe A/S
Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA
Ferguson, Niall (USA), Professor of History, Harvard University
Flint, Douglas J. (GBR), Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
Garicano, Luis (ESP), Professor of Economics, LSE; Senior Advisor to Ciudadanos
Georgieva, Kristalina (INT), Vice President, European Commission
Gernelle, Etienne (FRA), Editorial Director, Le Point
Gomes da Silva, Carlos (PRT), Vice Chairman and CEO, Galp Energia
Goodman, Helen (GBR), MP, Labour Party
Goulard, Sylvie (INT), Member of the European Parliament
Graham, Lindsey (USA), Senator
Grillo, Ulrich (DEU), Chairman, Grillo-Werke AG; President, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV
Hadfield, Chris (CAN), Colonel, Astronaut
Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University
Harding, Dido (GBR), CEO, TalkTalk Telecom Group plc
Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, DeepMind
Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investment, LLC
Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Höttges, Timotheus (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG
Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard
Jäkel, Julia (DEU), CEO, Gruner + Jahr
Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
Jonsson, Conni (SWE), Founder and Chairman, EQT
Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. (USA), Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Kaeser, Joe (DEU), President and CEO, Siemens AG
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies
Kengeter, Carsten (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Börse AG
Kerr, John (GBR), Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power
Kherbache, Yasmine (BEL), MP, Flemish Parliament
Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
Lagarde, Christine (INT), Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Levin, Richard (USA), CEO, Coursera
Leyen, Ursula von der (DEU), Minister of Defence
Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group
Logothetis, George (GRC), Chairman and CEO, Libra Group
Maizière, Thomas de (DEU), Minister of the Interior, Federal Ministry of the Interior
Makan, Divesh (USA), CEO, ICONIQ Capital
Malcomson, Scott (USA), Author; President, Monere Ltd.
Markwalder, Christa (CHE), President of the National Council and the Federal Assembly
McArdle, Megan (USA), Columnist, Bloomberg View
Michel, Charles (BEL), Prime Minister
Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC), President, New Democracy Party
Morneau, Bill (CAN), Minister of Finance
Mundie, Craig J. (USA), Principal, Mundie & Associates
Murray, Charles A. (USA), W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
Noonan, Michael (IRL), Minister for Finance
Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
O’Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair Plc
Ollongren, Kajsa (NLD), Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam
Özel, Soli (TUR), Professor, Kadir Has University
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co.
Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute
Philippe, Edouard (FRA), Mayor of Le Havre
Pind, Søren (DNK), Minister of Justice
Ratti, Carlo (ITA), Director, MIT Senseable City Lab
Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister
Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
Schäuble, Wolfgang (DEU), Minister of Finance
Schieder, Andreas (AUT), Chairman, Social Democratic Group
Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc.
Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Schwab, Klaus (INT), Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Simsek, Mehmet (TUR), Deputy Prime Minister
Sinn, Hans-Werner (DEU), Professor for Economics and Public Finance, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Skogen Lund, Kristin (NOR), Director General, The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
Standing, Guy (GBR), Co-President, BIEN; Research Professor, University of London
Svanberg, Carl-Henric (SWE), Chairman, BP plc and AB Volvo
Thiel, Peter A. (USA), President, Thiel Capital
Tillich, Stanislaw (DEU), Minister-President of Saxony
Vetterli, Martin (CHE), President, NSF
Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation
Wallenberg, Jacob (SWE), Chairman, Investor AB
Weder di Mauro, Beatrice (CHE), Professor of Economics, University of Mainz
Wolf, Martin H. (GBR), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
BILDERBERG 2015
This was held in June in Telfs-Buchen in Austria. The 63rd Bilderberg Conference hosted about 140 participants from 22 nations. The site note the following topics:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Chemical Weapons Threats
- Current Economic Issues
- European Strategy
- Globalisation
- Greece
- Iran
- Middle East
- NATO
- Russia
- Terrorism
- United Kingdom
- USA
- US Elections
Telfs-Buchen, Austria 11 – 14 June 2015
Castries, Henri de | Chairman and CEO, AXA Group | FRA |
Achleitner, Paul M. | Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG | DEU |
Agius, Marcus | Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group | GBR |
Ahrenkiel, Thomas | Director, Danish Intelligence Service (DDIS) | DNK |
Allen, John R. | Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, US Department of State | USA |
Altman, Roger C. | Executive Chairman, Evercore | USA |
Applebaum, Anne | Director of Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute | USA |
Apunen, Matti | Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA | FIN |
Baird, Zoë | CEO and President, Markle Foundation | USA |
Balls, Edward M. | Former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | GBR |
Balsemão, Francisco Pinto | Chairman, Impresa SGPS | PRT |
Barroso, José M. Durão | Former President of the European Commission | PRT |
Baverez, Nicolas | Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | FRA |
Benko, René | Founder, SIGNA Holding GmbH | AUT |
Bernabè, Franco | Chairman, FB Group SRL | ITA |
Beurden, Ben van | CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc | NLD |
Bigorgne, Laurent | Director, Institut Montaigne | FRA |
Boone, Laurence | Special Adviser on Financial and Economic Affairs to the President | FRA |
Botín, Ana P. | Chairman, Banco Santander | ESP |
Brandtzæg, Svein Richard | President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA | NOR |
Bronner, Oscar | Publisher, Standard Verlagsgesellschaft | AUT |
Burns, William | President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | USA |
Calvar, Patrick | Director General, DGSI | FRA |
Cebrián, Juan Luis | Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA | ESP |
Clark, W. Edmund | Retired Executive, TD Bank Group | CAN |
Coeuré, Benoît | Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank | INT |
Coyne, Andrew | Editor, Editorials and Comment, National Post | CAN |
Damberg, Mikael L. | Minister for Enterprise and Innovation | SWE |
De Gucht, Karel | Former EU Trade Commissioner, State Minister | BEL |
Donilon, Thomas E. | Former U.S. National Security Advisor; Partner and Vice Chair, O’Melveny & Myers LLP | USA |
Döpfner, Mathias | CEO, Axel Springer SE | DEU |
Dowling, Ann | President, Royal Academy of Engineering | GBR |
Dugan, Regina | Vice President for Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects, Google | USA |
Eilertsen, Trine | Political Editor, Aftenposten | NOR |
Eldrup, Merete | CEO, TV 2 Danmark A/S | DNK |
Elkann, John | Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles | ITA |
Enders, Thomas | CEO, Airbus Group | DEU |
Erdoes, Mary | CEO, JP Morgan Asset Management | USA |
Fairhead, Rona | Chairman, BBC Trust | GBR |
Federspiel, Ulrik | Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S | DNK |
Feldstein, Martin S. | President Emeritus, NBER; Professor of Economics, Harvard University | USA |
Fischer, Heinz | Federal President | AUT |
Flint, Douglas J. | Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc | GBR |
Franz, Christoph | Chairman of the Board, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd | CHE |
Fresco, Louise O. | President and Chairman Executive Board, Wageningen University and Research Centre | NLD |
Griffin, Kenneth | Founder and CEO, Citadel Investment Group, LLC | USA |
Gruber, Lilli | Executive Editor and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV | ITA |
Guriev, Sergei | Professor of Economics, Sciences Po | RUS |
Gürkaynak, Gönenç | Managing Partner, ELIG Law Firm | TUR |
Gusenbauer, Alfred | Former Chancellor of the Republic of Austria | AUT |
Halberstadt, Victor | Professor of Economics, Leiden University | NLD |
Hampel, Erich | Chairman, UniCredit Bank Austria AG | AUT |
Hassabis, Demis | Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind | GBR |
Hesoun, Wolfgang | CEO, Siemens Austria | AUT |
Hildebrand, Philipp | Vice Chairman, BlackRock Inc. | CHE |
Hoffman, Reid | Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn | USA |
Ischinger, Wolfgang | Chairman, Munich Security Conference | INT |
Jacobs, Kenneth M. | Chairman and CEO, Lazard | USA |
Jäkel, Julia | CEO, Gruner + Jahr | DEU |
Johnson, James A. | Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners | USA |
Juppé, Alain | Mayor of Bordeaux, Former Prime Minister | FRA |
Kaeser, Joe | President and CEO, Siemens AG | DEU |
Karp, Alex | CEO, Palantir Technologies | USA |
Kepel, Gilles | University Professor, Sciences Po | FRA |
Kerr, John | Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power | GBR |
Kesici, Ilhan | MP, Turkish Parliament | TUR |
Kissinger, Henry A. | Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. | USA |
Kleinfeld, Klaus | Chairman and CEO, Alcoa | USA |
Knot, Klaas H.W. | President, De Nederlandsche Bank | NLD |
Koç, Mustafa V. | Chairman, Koç Holding A.S. | TUR |
Kravis, Henry R. | Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. | USA |
Kravis, Marie-Josée | Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute | USA |
Kudelski, André | Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group | CHE |
Lauk, Kurt | President, Globe Capital Partners | DEU |
Lemne, Carola | CEO, The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise | SWE |
Levey, Stuart | Chief Legal Officer, HSBC Holdings plc | USA |
Leyen, Ursula von der | Minister of Defence | DEU |
Leysen, Thomas | Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group | BEL |
Maher, Shiraz | Senior Research Fellow, ICSR, King’s College London | GBR |
Markus Lassen, Christina | Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Policy and Stabilisation | DNK |
Mathews, Jessica T. | Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | USA |
Mattis, James | Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University | USA |
Maudet, Pierre | Vice-President of the State Council, Department of Security, Police and the Economy of Geneva | CHE |
McKay, David I. | President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada | CAN |
Mert, Nuray | Columnist, Professor of Political Science, Istanbul University | TUR |
Messina, Jim | CEO, The Messina Group | USA |
Michel, Charles | Prime Minister | BEL |
Micklethwait, John | Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP | USA |
Minton Beddoes, Zanny | Editor-in-Chief, The Economist | GBR |
Monti, Mario | Senator-for-life; President, Bocconi University | ITA |
Mörttinen, Leena | Executive Director, The Finnish Family Firms Association | FIN |
Mundie, Craig J. | Principal, Mundie & Associates | USA |
Munroe-Blum, Heather | Chairperson, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board | CAN |
Netherlands, H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the | NLD | |
O’Leary, Michael | CEO, Ryanair Plc | IRL |
Osborne, George | First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Exchequer | GBR |
Özel, Soli | Columnist, Haberturk Newspaper; Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University | TUR |
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri | Group CEO, Titan Cement Co. | GRC |
Pégard, Catherine | President, Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles | FRA |
Perle, Richard N. | Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute | USA |
Petraeus, David H. | Chairman, KKR Global Institute | USA |
Pikrammenos, Panagiotis | Honorary President of The Hellenic Council of State | GRC |
Reisman, Heather M. | Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. | CAN |
Rocca, Gianfelice | Chairman, Techint Group | ITA |
Roiss, Gerhard | CEO, OMV Austria | AUT |
Rubin, Robert E. | Co Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury | USA |
Rutte, Mark | Prime Minister | NLD |
Sadjadpour, Karim | Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | USA |
Sawers, John | Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners | GBR |
Sayek Böke, Selin | Vice President, Republican People’s Party | TUR |
Schmidt, Eric E. | Executive Chairman, Google Inc. | USA |
Scholten, Rudolf | CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG | AUT |
Sevelda, Karl | CEO, Raiffeisen Bank International AG | AUT |
Stoltenberg, Jens | Secretary General, NATO | INT |
Stubb, Alexander | Ministers of Finance | FIN |
Suder, Katrin | Deputy Minister of Defense | DEU |
Sutherland, Peter D. | UN Special Representative; Chairman, Goldman Sachs International | IRL |
Svanberg, Carl-Henric | Chairman, BP plc; Chairman, AB Volvo | SWE |
Svarva, Olaug | CEO, The Government Pension Fund Norway | NOR |
Thiel, Peter A. | President, Thiel Capital | USA |
Tsoukalis, Loukas | President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy | GRC |
Üzümcü, Ahmet | Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | INT |
Vitorino, António M. | Partner, Cuetrecasas, Concalves Pereira, RL | PRT |
Wallenberg, Jacob | Chairman, Investor AB | SWE |
Weber, Vin | Partner, Mercury LLC | USA |
Wolf, Martin H. | Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times | GBR |
Wolfensohn, James D. | Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company | USA |
Zoellick, Robert B. | Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group | USA |
The above does not include all attendees, only those that responsed with early acceptances. The meeting took place just 16 miles south of the G7 Summit that preceded it. In addition to the regulers like the UK Chancellor and Michael O’Leary of Ryanair and Thomas Enders of Airbus attended. Airbus is one of the world’s largest manufactures of weapons. Eric Schmidt of Google spoke of the DeepMind project and modern technology. Likewise, former DARPA director and Google executive Regina Dugan discussed the DeepMind ‘artifical intelligence’ chip. The chip can be swallowed in a capsule – the ‘pill has a small chip inside of it with a switch’ which goes on and off and allows the body to act as a biological authentication system for cellphones, cars, doors and other devices.