Bilderberg Group BBC article

[TheSpoon]

Came across an article linked from the front page of the BBC News Website about the Bilderberg Group:

_http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4290944.stm

Particularly this paragraph stood out for me:

Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed.

Would be good to see the attendence list of some more recent meetings and see who can be looked out for in future government. Interesting that this article was apparently written in 2005 and yet yesterday appeared in their "Most Popular" links section. Something must be stiring up interest in this organisation.

What seemed relevant to me was not so much this group being openly discussed (which tells me that they're not directly associated with the upper echelons of TPTB), but that the idea of such a group existing would be socialised in mainstream media at all.

Personally significant to me (but probably irrelevant) that the posting time of the article had a 42 in it. I didn't notice that until I was halfway through this posting.

 

[TheSpoon]

Ok, found some brief coverage of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting:
_http://www.nolanchart.com/article3995.html
_http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9794

This paragraph quite amusing (article dated 20080606)

There is also speculation that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama met at the Bilderberg Meeting yesterday. Jim Johnson the former Fannie Mae CEO and 2008 Bilderberg attendee is one of the individuals tasked to choose Obama’s running mate so an appearance at Bilderberg by Obama and Clinton makes perfect sense. Despite that, the media has been running a story saying that Clinton and Obama met at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s house which flies in the face of logic. There is a distinct possibility that this story is actually cover so Obama and Clinton could briefly attend Bilderberg and possibly work out a deal. Of course, we will probably never know the entire truth. Despite that, both Clinton and Obama were in the Washington DC area yesterday, and Obama’s campaign actually misdirected the press core that follows him. While Obama stayed in the Washington DC area, the media was told to fly out to Chicago only to find out Obama did not fly out with them.

also a list of attendees
_http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=9770

These guys are really coming out of the closet now, Wikipedia even has a list - although much reduced - of the 2009 attendees:
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Bilderberg_Meeting
14 names instead of the 140 listed the previous year.

So OK that list may be a complete smoke screen, but I thought most of the names made sense - if they weren't actually there then these people might be entitled to feel a tad snubbed. Something that stood out for me (2008) was the double representation from The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, looks like they gave a presentation or something.
_http://www.aei.org
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute

Looking at the attendees (assuming they were) from the UK made for interesting reading:

Ken Clark,
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Clarke
MP since before I was born, conservative...pro-Europe (makes sense), former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Appointed back into the shadow cabinet in January 2009 making him Lord Mandelson's opposite number.

Martin J. Taylor
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Taylor_(businessman)
Chairman, Syngenta International (into biotech, pesticides, genomic research and opposing GM regulation)
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngenta
Former CEO of Barclay's Bank (see Barclaycard), member of another Public Policy Research group, this time a Left Wing UK variety:
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research
From Banking to GM Crops, what a career!

Tom McKillop
Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Interestingly a PhD in Chemistry
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_McKillop
Few skeletons in his pharmaceutical company's closet
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraZeneca#Corporate_sexual_harassment

John Kerr
Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr,_Baron_Kerr_of_Kinlochard
Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
Executive committee member of the Trilateral Commission...man, this chap's biography is a conspiracy theory jumping off point!

George Osborne
Another conservative (ie currently shadow cabinet) and another Chancellor of the Exchequer. Young, media friendly (ie reasonably attractive as far as politicians go).
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Osbourne
Ahh, apparently he attended in 2006 and 2007 as well. I'm putting money on the Conservatives for the next General Election. Doubt I'll get decent odds though.

Wow, Guardian reporter Charlie Skelton seems to have really given it a go this year. Brave boy.
_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/charlie-skeltons-bilderberg-files
This one was particularly vivid:
_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/bilderberg-charlie-skelton-dispatch

And then it struck me: there really ISN'T any fotografia. There's none. Not a single member of the mainstream press. Not a single newshound camera on a tripod. Nothing. Nothing is happening here. Nothing to report.

The limousines have started to arrive. Nothing to report.

They've closed off an entire peninsula. There are roadblocks. Machine guns. Nothing to report.

This is Bilderberg's 57th annual meeting. Nothing to report.

Susan Boyle plucks eyebrows! Finally, something to report.

 

[bedower]

List of Bilderberg 2009 Attendees

English translation via 911 Forum

Dutch Queen Beatrix

Queen Sofia of Spain

Prince Constantijn (Belgian Prince)

Prince Philippe Etienne Ntavinion, Belgium

Étienne, Viscount Davignon, Belgium (former vice-president of the European Commission)

Josef Ackermann (Swiss banker and CEO of Deutsche Bank)

Keith B. Alexander, United States (Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Director of the National Security Agency)

Roger Altman, United States (investment banker, former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton)

Georgios A. Arapoglou, Greece (Governor of National Bank of Greece)

Ali Babaca , Turkey (Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economy)

Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portugal (former Prime Minister of Portugal)

Nicholas Bavarez, France (economist and historian)

Franco Bernabè, Italy (Telecom Italia)

Xavier Bertrand, France (French politician connected to Nicolas Sarkozy)

Carl Bildt, Sweden (former Prime Minister of Sweden)

January Bgiorklount, Norway (?)

Christoph Blocher, Switzerland (industrialist, Vice President of the Swiss People’s Party)

Alexander Bompar, France (?)

Ana Patricia Botin, Spain, (President of Banco Banesto)

Henri de Castries, France (President of AXA, the French global insurance companies group)

Juan Luis Cebrián, Spain (journalist for Grupo PRISA; his father was a senior journalist in the fascist Franco regime)

W. Edmund Clark, Canada (CEO TD Bank Financial Group)

Kenneth Clarke, Great Britain (MP, Shadow Business Secretary)

Luc Cohen, Belgium (?)

George David, United States (Chairman and former CEO of United Technologies Corporation, board member of Citigroup)

Richard Dearlove, Great Britain (former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service)

Mario Draghi, Italy (economist, governor of the Bank of Italy)

Eldrup Anders, Denmark (CEO Dong Energy)

John Elkann, Italy (Italian industrialist, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, and heir to the automaker Fiat)

Thomas Enders, Germany (CEO Airbus)

Jose Entrekanales, Spain (?)

Isintro phenomena casket, Spain (?)

Niall Ferguson, (Rothschild personal biographer) United States (Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School)

Timothy Geithner, United States (Secretary of the US Treasury)

Ntermot convergence, Ireland (AIV Group) (?)

Donald Graham, United States (CEO and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company)

Victor Chalmperstant, Netherlands (Leiden University)

Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Netherlands (Dutch politician, minister of Justice in the fourth Balkenende cabinet, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal)

Richard Holbrooke, United States (Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan)

Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (Dutch politician and the current NATO Secretary General)

James Jones, United States (National Security Advisor to the White House)

Vernon Jordan, United States (lawyer, close adviser to President Bill Clinton)

Robert Keigkan, United States (? - possibly Robert Kagan, neocon historian)

Girki Katainen, Finland (?)

John Kerr (aka Baron Kerr of Kinlochard), Britain (Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and an independent member of the House of Lords)

Mustafa Vehbi Koç, Turkey (President of industrial conglomerate Koç Holding)

Roland GT, Germany (?)

Sami Cohen, Turkey (Journalist) (?)

Henry Kissinger, United States

Marie Jose Kravis, United States (Hudson Institute)

Neelie Kroes, Netherlands (European Commissioner for Competition)

Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, Greece (Group S & B) (?)

Manuela Ferreira Leite, Portugal (Portuguese economist and politician)

Bernardino Leon Gross, Spain (Secretary General of the Presidency)

Jessica Matthews, United States (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Philippe Maystadt (President of the European Investment Bank)

Frank McKenna, Canada (Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank)

John Micklethwait, Great Britain (Editor-in-chief of The Economist)

Thierry de Montbrial, France (founded the Department of Economics of the École Polytechnique and heads the Institut français des relations internationales)

Mario Monti, Italy (Italian economist and politician, President of the Bocconi University of Milan)

Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain (Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Craig Mundie, United States (chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft)

Egil Myklebust, Norway (Chairman of the board of SAS Group, Scandinavian Airlines System)

Mathias Nass, Germany (Editor of the newspaper Die Zeit)

Denis Olivennes, France (director general of Nouvel Observateur)

Frederic Oudea, France (CEO of Société Générale bank)

Cem Özdemir, Germany (co-leader of the Green Party and Member of the European Parliament)

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy (Italian banker, economist, and former Minister of Economy and Finance)

Dimitrios Th.Papalexopoulo, Greece (Managing Director of Titan Cement Company SA)

Richard Perle, United States (American Enterprise Institute)

David Petraeus, United States (Commander, U.S. Central Command)

Manuel Pinho, Portugal (Minister of Economy and Innovation)

J. Robert S. Prichard, Canada (CEO of Torstar Corporation and president emeritus of the University of Toronto)

Romano Prodi, Italy (former Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission)

Heather M. Reisman, Canada (co-founder of Indigo Books & Music Inc.).

Eivint Reitan, Norway (economist, corporate officer and politician for the Centre Party)

Michael Rintzier, Czech Republic (?)

David Rockefeller, United States

Dennis Ross, United States (special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)

Barnett R. Rubin, United States (Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation)

Alberto Rouith-Gkalarthon, Spain (?)

Susan Sampantzi Ntintzer, Turkey (?) Guler Sabanci, President of Sabanci Holdings (?)

Indira Samarasekera, Canada (President of University of Alberta, Board of Directors Scotiabank)

Rountol Solten, Austria (?)

Jürgen E. Schrempp, Germany (CEO DaimlerChrysler)

Pedro Solbes Mira, Spain (economist, Socialist, Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance)

Sampatzi Saraz, Turkey (banker) (?) possibly Süreyya Serdengeçti (former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey) http://arsiv.zaman.com.tr/2002/05/29/ekonomi/h6.htm

Sanata Seketa, Canada (University of Canada) (?)

Lawrence Summers, United States (economist, Director of the White House’s National Economic Council)

Peter Sutherland, Ireland (Chairman, BP and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International)

Martin Taylor, United Kingdom (former chief executive of Barclays Bank, currently Chairman of Syngenta AG)

Peter Thiel, United States (Clarium Capital Management LCC, PayPal co-founder, Board of Directors, Facebook)

Agan Ourgkout, Turkey (?)

Matti Taneli Vanhanen, Finland, (Prime Minister)

Daniel L. Vasella, Switzerland (Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Novartis AG)

Jeroen van der Veer, Netherlands (CEO of Royal Dutch Shell)

Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium (former Prime Minister)

Paul Volcker, U.S. (former Federal Reserve director, Chair of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board)

Jacob Wallenberg, Sweden (chairman of Investor AB and former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)

Marcus Wallenberg, Sweden (CEO of Investor AB, former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)

Nout Wellink, Netherlands (Chairman of De Nederlandsche Bank, Board of Directors, the Bank of International Settlements)

Hans Wijers, Netherlands (CEO of the multinational corporation AkzoNobel)

Martin Wolf, Great Britain (associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times)

James Wolfensohn, United States (former president of the World Bank)

Paul Wolfowitz, United States (for U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, currently AEI scholar)

Fareed Zakaria, United States (journalist, author, and CNN host)

Robert Zoellick, United States (former managing director of Goldman Sachs, President the World Bank)

Dora Bakoyannis, Greece (Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Anna Diamantopoulou, Greece (Member of Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement)

Yannis Papathanasiou, Greece (Minister of Finance)

George Alogoskoufis, Greece (former Minister)

George A. David, Greece (businessman, president of Coca-Cola)
http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2009/05/liste-der-teilnehmer-bilderberg-2009.html

 

[Vulcan59]

The above list seems strange to me because nobody from Asia nor from Russia or China is represented. Perhaps the list is not complete or not the actually list of attendess?

 

[bedower]

[quote author= vulcan59 today] The above list seems strange to me because nobody from Asia nor from Russia or China is represented. [/quote]

Nor from Iran. Quite a few from Turkey, though.

Maybe the lines have already been drawn in the sand?

Perhaps the list is not complete or not the actually list of attendess?

You could be right. As the meeting was supposed to be more or less secret with very high security, this might be a case for caveat emptor. Or do I mean caveat lector?

 

[Adaryn]

_http://www.screendaily.com/news/us-americas-news/halcyon-buys-rights-to-estulins-the-true-story-of-the-bilderberg-group/5001776.article

Halcyon buys rights to Estulin's The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group
25 May, 2009 | By Chris Evans

Los Angeles-based The Halcyon Company has bought the film rights to writer Daniel Estulin’s best selling book, The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group [_http://bilderbergbook.com/], from publishing house TrineDay.

The book revealed the workings of the secretive Bilderberg Group, which has about 130 members all of whom are influential figures across politics and business. The book revealed that the group has spent time discussing major world issues and even predicted the current financial crisis, but chooses not to reveal its talks to the public.

Estulin, who is Russian but based in Madrid, spent 14 years researching the book, which attracted global media attention when it was published in 2007.

The Halcyon Company is a leading privately financed, media production and financing organisation run by co-CEOs Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek.

The company also owns the rights to the Terminator franchise, including the latest film Terminator Salvation, starring Christian Bale, plus it has first look rights to the works of science fiction writer Philip K Dick.

 

[Lorraine]

I don't see any attendees from Australia either. I don't know if that is good news (meaning there are no instructions for them) or they are left out on important news

 

[seek10]

The above list seems strange to me because nobody from Asia nor from Russia or China is represented. Perhaps the list is not complete or not the actually list of attendess?

I think these are working groups rather than fixed set of pre-chosen people. with this perspective, there may be some representation based on background ethnicity

My subjective guess is fareed zakaria may be representing India. his rise is too steep and profile is very interesting , education from Yale and foreign affairs.

--- _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria -----------

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria born January 20, 1964)[1] is an Indian-born naturalized American journalist, author, and television host specializing in international relations.

Early life

Zakaria was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India to a Muslim family. His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and an Islamic scholar. His mother, Fatima Zakaria, was for a time the editor of the Sunday Times of India.

Zakaria attended The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai. He received a B.A. from Yale University where he was President of the Yale Political Union and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1993,[2] where he studied under Samuel P. Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann.

[edit] Career

After directing a research project on American foreign policy at Harvard, Zakaria became managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. In October 2000, he was named editor of Newsweek International.[2] and writes a weekly foreign affairs column in it. He has written widely and on a variety of subjects for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and for one year, was a wine columnist for the webzine Slate[3].

Zakaria is the author of From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role (Princeton, 1998), The Future of Freedom (Norton, 2003), and The Post-American World (2008); he has also co-edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books).
---

 

[truth seeker]

I think that some of the names on that list have either been misspelled, left off or a combination of both. I found this list: http://www.wacholland.org/en/news/bilderberg-2009-attendee-list

Not sure how accurate it is though...

 

[Voyageur]

The Builderberg Group changes all the time - remember, circles within circles; this group are like manikins behind the window, as in window dressing.

 

[TheSpoon]

The 2011 Bilderberg Conference started yesterday in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

The BBC featured this magazine article a couple of days ago which - while primarily focused on the Bilderberg Meetings - also discussed secret societies and conspiracy theories in general:

_http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13682082

The conspiracy theorists may get overexcited but they have a point, says Prof Andrew Kakabadse, co- author of new book Bilderberg People.

The group has genuine power that far outranks the World Economic Forum, which meets in Davos, he argues. And with no transparency, it is easy to see why people are worried about its influence.

"It's much smarter than conspiracy," says Prof Kakabadse. "This is moulding the way people think so that it seems like there's no alternative to what is happening."

As he's done for the past few years, The Guardian's Charlie Skelton is apparently going to be in attendence, or skulking about nearby at any rate. I found his previous blogs to be very engaging; the man seems to be quite prepared to put himself in harm's way for a good story.

_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jun/03/bilderberg-2011-switzerland-st-moritz

Next week, in Switzerland, Henry Kissinger and his brave band of corporate CEOs, high-wealth individuals and heavyweight thinktankers will lock arms with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and David Rockefeller, and stand their ground against the economic contagion.

The last thing a bunch of bank bosses and multinational executives wants is for the nation-states of Europe to collapse, allowing their assets to be bought up on the cheap. Right?

The Bilderbergers are now publishing their press release about topics discussed and a list of attendees. This dates back to 2009 which (I thought was interesting) was also the starting year for this thread when the BBC (ie mainstream UK media) started writing more openly about the group.

_http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meeting_2011

_http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants_2011.html

I had a quick scan through of the GBR attendees for this year and the main question that cropped up for me was - who the heck is Rory Stewart, MP? A name to watch for the future perhaps - royal connections, military service, employment with the Foreign Office and a Scottish link - ticking all the boxes there ;)

Bilderberg's only activity is its annual Conference. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued. Since 1954, fifty-eight conferences have been held. The names of the participants are made available to the press. Participants are chosen for their experience, their knowledge, and their standing; all participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity.

If participants are chosen fo their experience, knowledge and standing then why do so many politians attend just before they come into power and not after? Checking that they're going to "play ball" would be my guess.

Edit: Must read the discussion pages of Wikipedia more often - they're very amusing. Found this on Rory Stewart _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rory_Stewart

Recent deletions relating to the claims of Craig Murray appear to confuse the nature of the material deleted. It did not assert that Mr Stewart was an M16 officer. Clearly, if it had, the source provided would not have been sufficient to support the claim. In fact, the deleted material asserted that Craig Murray has claimed on several occasions that Mr Stewart was an M16 officer. This assertion is factual – and demonstrably and incontestably true. A link was provided in the initial edit.

 

[Rich]

I had a quick scan through of the GBR attendees for this year and the main question that cropped up for me was - who the heck is Rory Stewart, MP? A name to watch for the future perhaps - royal connections, military service, employment with the Foreign Office and a Scottish link - ticking all the boxes there ;)

Yes, interesting character to keep an eye on. Reading some of the wiki references, he seems tailor-made for political shenanigans.

 

[go2]

The Bilderbergers hardly bother to conceal their existence and role in world government, considering there are more than two million Google hits on Bilderberger. The US attendees in bold hint the internet was a topic of discussion and decision at this years gathering in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Perhaps, the internet is shining a little too much light on the rulers of darkness. The people of the world may find out whom to hold responsible for turning this planet into a gulug.

Full participant list:

Belgium

* Coene, Luc, Governor, National Bank of Belgium
* Davignon, Etienne, Minister of State
* Leysen, Thomas, Chairman, Umicore


China

* Fu, Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Huang, Yiping, Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University


Denmark

* Eldrup, Anders, CEO, DONG Energy
* Federspiel, Ulrik, Vice President, Global Affairs, Haldor Topsøe A/S
* Schütze, Peter, Member of the Executive Management, Nordea Bank AB


Germany

* Ackermann, Josef, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank
* Enders, Thomas, CEO, Airbus SAS
* Löscher, Peter, President and CEO, Siemens AG
* Nass, Matthias, Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit
* Steinbrück, Peer, Member of the Bundestag; Former Minister of Finance


Finland

* Apunen, Matti, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
* Johansson, Ole, Chairman, Confederation of the Finnish Industries EK
* Ollila, Jorma, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
* Pentikäinen, Mikael, Publisher and Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat


France

* Baverez, Nicolas, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
* Bazire, Nicolas, Managing Director, Groupe Arnault /LVMH
* Castries, Henri de, Chairman and CEO, AXA
* Lévy, Maurice, Chairman and CEO, Publicis Groupe S.A.
* Montbrial, Thierry de, President, French Institute for International Relations
* Roy, Olivier, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute


Great Britain

* Agius, Marcus, Chairman, Barclays PLC
* Flint, Douglas J., Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings
* Kerr, John, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
* Lambert, Richard, Independent Non-Executive Director, Ernst & Young
* Mandelson, Peter, Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel
* Micklethwait, John, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
* Osborne, George, Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Stewart, Rory, Member of Parliament
* Taylor, J. Martin, Chairman, Syngenta International AG


Greece

* David, George A., Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.
* Hardouvelis, Gikas A., Chief Economist and Head of Research, Eurobank EFG
* Papaconstantinou, George, Minister of Finance
* Tsoukalis, Loukas, President, ELIAMEP Grisons


International Organizations

* Almunia, Joaquín, Vice President, European Commission
* Daele, Frans van, Chief of Staff to the President of the European Council
* Kroes, Neelie, Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda
* Lamy, Pascal, Director General, World Trade Organization
* Rompuy, Herman van, President, European Council
* Sheeran, Josette, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
* Solana Madariaga, Javier, President, ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
* Trichet, Jean-Claude, President, European Central Bank
* Zoellick, Robert B., President, The World Bank Group


Ireland

* Gallagher, Paul, Senior Counsel; Former Attorney General
* McDowell, Michael, Senior Counsel, Law Library; Former Deputy Prime Minister
* Sutherland, Peter D., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International


Italy

* Bernabè, Franco, CEO, Telecom Italia SpA
* Elkann, John, Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
* Monti, Mario, President, Univers Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
* Scaroni, Paolo, CEO, Eni S.p.A.
* Tremonti, Giulio, Minister of Economy and Finance


Canada

* Carney, Mark J., Governor, Bank of Canada
* Clark, Edmund, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
* McKenna, Frank, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group
* Orbinksi, James, Professor of Medicine and Political Science, University of Toronto
* Prichard, J. Robert S., Chair, Torys LLP
* Reisman, Heather, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. Center, Brookings Institution


Netherlands

* Bolland, Marc J., Chief Executive, Marks and Spencer Group plc
* Chavannes, Marc E., Political Columnist, NRC Handelsblad; Professor of Journalism
* Halberstadt, Victor, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
* H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands
* Rosenthal, Uri, Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Winter, Jaap W., Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek


Norway

* Myklebust, Egil, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, sk Hydro ASA
* H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway
* Ottersen, Ole Petter, Rector, University of Oslo
* Solberg, Erna, Leader of the Conservative Party


Austria

* Bronner, Oscar, CEO and Publisher, Standard Medien AG
* Faymann, Werner, Federal Chancellor
* Rothensteiner, Walter, Chairman of the Board, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG
* Scholten, Rudolf, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG


Portugal

* Balsemão, Francisco Pinto, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister
* Ferreira Alves, Clara, CEO, Claref LDA; writer
* Nogueira Leite, António, Member of the Board, José de Mello Investimentos, SGPS, SA


Sweden

* Mordashov, Alexey A., CEO, Severstal
* Bildt, Carl, Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Björling, Ewa, Minister for Trade
* Wallenberg, Jacob, Chairman, Investor AB


Switzerland

* Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter, Chairman, Nestlé S.A.
* Groth, Hans, Senior Director, Healthcare Policy & Market Access, Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer Europe
* Janom Steiner, Barbara, Head of the Department of Justice, Security and Health, Canton
* Kudelski, André, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group SA
* Leuthard, Doris, Federal Councillor
* Schmid, Martin, President, Government of the Canton Grisons
* Schweiger, Rolf, Ständerat
* Soiron, Rolf, Chairman of the Board, Holcim Ltd., Lonza Ltd.
* Vasella, Daniel L., Chairman, Novartis AG
* Witmer, Jürg, Chairman, Givaudan SA and Clariant AG


Spain

* Cebrián, Juan Luis, CEO, PRISA
* Cospedal, María Dolores de, Secretary General, Partido Popular
* León Gross, Bernardino, Secretary General of the Spanish Presidency
* Nin Génova, Juan María, President and CEO, La Caixa
* H.M. Queen Sofia of Spain


Turkey

* Ciliv, Süreyya, CEO, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.
* Gülek Domac, Tayyibe, Former Minister of State
* Koç, Mustafa V., Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
* Pekin, Sefika, Founding Partner, Pekin & Bayar Law Firm


USA

* Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
* Altman, Roger C., Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
* Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
* Collins, Timothy C., CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
* Feldstein, Martin S., George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
* Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
* Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
* Jacobs, Kenneth M., Chairman & CEO, Lazard
* Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
* Jordan, Jr., Vernon E., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
* Keane, John M., Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired
* Kissinger, Henry A., Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
* Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
* Kravis, Henry R., Co-Chairman and co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co.
* Kravis, Marie-Josée, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
* Li, Cheng, Senior Fellow and Director of Research, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
* Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
* Orszag, Peter R., Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
* Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
* Rockefeller, David, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
* Rose, Charlie, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
* Rubin, Robert E., Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
* Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
* Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
* Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
* Varney, Christine A., Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
* Vaupel, James W., Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
* Warsh, Kevin, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board
* Wolfensohn, James D., Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC

Source: Infowars

 

[TheSpoon]

I thought Charlie Skelton made a good point in his Guardian article on Thursday 9 June:

_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/jun/09/bilderberg-2011-curtains-drawn

This is the bit about Bilderberg that I really don't get. It's an old chestnut, but let's just take another bite at it. Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that Bilderberg benefits us all. The citizens of the world are made safer, or happier, or healthier, or better off as a result of this meeting. Let's just say that the head of Deutsche Bank spends four days with the head of BP in order to improve our lives.

Let's suppose, shall we, that the amiable hosts – David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the Queen of the Netherlands – have the interests of the general public written in big red letters at the top of their conference agenda.

Suppose all that. Then why the fence? Why do delegates fling themselves across the back seats of their limousines rather than be seen attending this helpful gathering? Why the blacked-out windows and the newspapers held in front of their faces? And why the big white fence? I don't get it.

Why isn't Josef Ackermann, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, waving benignly to the crowds? Why aren't the excited participants pausing at the hotel gates to speak to the invited press? "Yes, thank you, we're hoping to solve Europe's financial crisis this year – so finger's crossed!"

 

[TheSpoon]

The Bilderbergers hardly bother to conceal their existence and role in world government, considering there are more than two million Google hits on Bilderberger.

And yet Reuters still comes up with just one hit - to the hotel that the conference is named after.

_http://www.reuters.com/search?blob=bilderberg

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Interesting.

The above list [2009] seems strange to me because nobody from Asia nor from Russia or China is represented. Perhaps the list is not complete or not the actually list of attendess?

Well there's definitely more people attending than shown on the list. Substantial representation from both Russia and China this year I note.