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BILDERBERG MEETINGS
LA TOJA CONFERENCE
12-14 May 1989
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
CHAIRMAN:
Lord Roll of Ipsden*
President, S.G. Warburg Group plc
CHAIRMAN DESIGNATE:
Lord Carrington
Chairman of the Board, Christie’s International plc; Former Secretary General, NATO
HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR EUROPE AND CANADA:
Victor Halberstadt*
Professor of Public Finance, Leyden University
HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR THE U.S.A.:
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.*
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University
HONORARY TREASURER:
Conrad J. Oort*
Member of the Board, Algemene Bank Nederland N.V.;
Professor of Money and Banking, University of Limburg
ITA | Giovanni Agnelli** | Chairman, Fiat S.p.A. |
DEN | Tage Andersen* | Managing Director and Chief Executive, Den Danske Bank |
USA | Dwayne O. Andreas | Chairman, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Inc. |
UK | Paddy Ashdown | Member of Parliament; Leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats |
USA | George W. Ball** | Former Under-Secretary of State |
POR | Francisco Pinto Balsemao* | Professor of Mass Communication, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, SOJORNAL; Former Prime Minister |
NETH | Relus ter Beek | Member of Parliament; Labour Party Spokesman on International Affairs |
CAN | Michel F. Belanger | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, National Bank of Canada |
USA | Jack F. Bennett* | Former Director and Senior Vice President, Exxon Corporation; Former Under-Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs |
USA | Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. | U.S. Senator (Democrat, Texas) |
NETH | Ernst H. van der Beugel** | Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Leyden University; Director of Companies |
TUR | Selahattin Beyazit* | Director of Companies |
ICE | Bjorn Bjarnason | Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Morgunbladid |
CAN | Conrad M. Black* | Chairman, Argus Corporation Ltd. |
SWE | Hans Blix | Director General, The International Atomic Energy Agency |
SPA | Miguel Boyer Salvador | Chairman, Cartera Central; Former Minister of Economy and Finance |
TUR | Ali Bozer | Deputy Prime Minister |
ITA | Enrico Braggiotti | Chairman of the Board, Banca Commerciale Italiana |
USA | Willard C. Butcher | Chairman, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. |
GRE | Costa Carras* | Director of Companies |
SPA | Jaime Carvajal Urquijo* | Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento |
SPA | Juan Luis Cebrian | Chief Executive Officer, PRISA (El Pais) |
TUR | Ismail Cem | Member of Parliament (Social Democratic Populist Party) |
USA | Charles H. Dallara | Assistant Secretary Designate of the Treasury for International Affairs |
USA | Kenneth W. Dam* | Vic President, Law and External Relations, IBM Corporation; Former Deputy Secretary of State |
FRG | Herta Daubler-Gmelin | Member of Parliament; Deputy Chairwoman, SPD |
BEL | Etienne Davignon* | Director, Societe Generale de Belgique; Former Member of the Commission of European Communities |
SPA | Guillermo de la Dehesa | Chief Executive, Banco Pastor; Former Secretary of State for Economy and Finance |
DEN | Aage Deleuran | Editor-in-Chief, Berlingske Tidende |
CAN | Marie-Josee Drouin | Executive Director, Hudson Institute of Canada |
INT | Arthur Dunkel | Director General, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
FIN | Casimir Ehrnrooth | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kymmene Corporation |
USA | William T. Esrey | President and Chief Executive Officer, United Telecommunications, Inc. and U.S. Sprint |
LUX | Colette Flesch | Chairman, Democratic Party; Former Minister for Foreign Affairs |
INT | John R. Galvin | Supreme Allied Commander Europe, SHAPE |
ITA | Raoul Gardini | Chairman, Ferruzzi Group |
UK | Timothy J. Garton Ash | St. Antonys College, Oxford; Foreign Editor, The Spectator |
FRG | Michaela Geiger | Member of Parliament; CDU/CSU Foreign Policy Spokesman |
SPA | Felipe Gonzalez | Prime Minister |
SPA | Fernando I. Gonzalez Laxe | Chairman, Government of Galicia |
CAN | Allan E. Gotlieb | William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, The Center for International Affairs, Harvard University |
USA | Maurice R. Greenberg | President, American International Group, Inc. |
USA | William E. Griffith | Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
SWE | Sten Gustafsson* | Chairman of the Board, SAAB-SCANIA AB |
INT | Francois Heisbourg | Director, The International Institute for Strategic Studies |
FIN | Jaakko Iloniemi* | Member of the Management Board, Union Bank of Finland; Former Ambassador to the United States of America |
AUS | Peter Jankowitsch* | Chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, Austrian National Assembly; Former Minister for Foreign Affairs |
USA | Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.* | Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Attorneys-at-Law); Former President, National Urban League |
USA | Thomas H. Kean | Governor of the State of New Jersey |
SWI | Christian H. Kind | Foreign Editor, Neue Zurcher Zeitung |
USA | Henry A. Kissinger* | Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. |
UK | Andrew Knight* | Chief Executive, The Daily Telegraph plc |
INT | Max Kohnstamm** | Secretary General, Action Committee for Europe; Former President, European University Institute |
AUS | Josef Krainer | Governor of Styria |
SWI | Alex Krauer | Chairman and Managing Director, Ciba-Geigy Limited |
FRA | Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere* | Director and First Executive Vice President, LOreal |
NETH | Cees J. A. van Lede | President, Federation of Netherlands Industries VNO |
SWI | Franz J. Lutolf* | Former General Manager and Member of the Executive Board, Swiss Bank Corporation |
POR | Rui Machete | Chairman, Constitutional Revision Parliamentary Commission; President, Portuguese-American Foundation; Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice |
CAN | Paul D. Manson | Chief of the Defence Staff |
SPA | Carlos March Delgado | Chairman, Banco Urquijo Unyon; Vice Chairman, Juan March Foundation |
BEL | Wilfred Martens | Prime Minister |
USA | Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.* | Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue; Former U.S. Senator (Republican, Maryland) |
FRA | Thierry de Montbrial* | Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique |
ITA | Mario Monti* | Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan; Vice Chairman, Banca Commerciale Italiana |
NETH | Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands | |
NETH | His Royal Highness Prince Claus of the Netherlands | |
ITA | Filippo M. Pandolfi | Vice President, Commission of the European Communities |
GRE | Theodore Papalexopoulos | Former Chairman, Union of Greek Industries |
UK | Cecil Parkinson | Secretary of State for Energy |
USA | Norman Pearlstine | Managing Director, The Wall Street Journal |
UK | Rupert L. Pennant-Rea | Editor, The Economist |
SPA | Jesus de Polanco | Chairman, TIMON Group; Chairman, PRISA (El Pais) |
USA | S. Ichtiaque Rasool | Chief Scientist or Global Change, NASA |
USA | William K. Reilly | Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency |
USA | Rozanne L. Ridgway | Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs |
USA | David Rockefeller, Sr.** | Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee |
USA | David Rockefeller, Jr. | Chairman, Rockefeller Brothers Fund |
NETH | H. Onno Ruding | Minister of Finance; Chairman of the Interim Committee of the IMF |
POR | Jorge Sampaio | Secretary General, Partido Socialista |
CAN | Jeanne Sauve | Governor General of Canada |
FRA | Louis Schweitzer | Financial Director, Regie Nationale des Usines Renault |
GRE | Michael J. Scoullos | President, European Environmental Bureau |
USA | John S. R. Shad | Chairman, Drexel Burnham Lambert Group |
USA | Jack Sheinkman | President, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO, CLC |
ICE | Hordur Sigurgestsson | President and Chief Executive Officer, The Iceland Steamship Co. Ltd. |
UK | John Smith | Member of Parliament; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer |
NOR | Lucy C. Smith | Professor of Law, University of Oslo |
BEL | Jacques E. Solvay | Chairman, Solvay & Cie S.A. |
FRG | Theo Sommer* | Editor-in-Chief, Die Zeit |
SPA | Her Majesty The Queen of Spain | |
SPA | His Majesty The King of Spain | |
USA | Lesley R. Stahl | National Affairs Correspondent, CBS News |
USA | Robert S. Strauss | Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Attorneys-at-Law) |
IRE | Peter D. Sutherland | Former Member, Commission of the European Communities; Member, Action Committee for Europe; Chairman Designate, Allied Irish Banks |
FRG | Klaus Topfer | Federal Minister for the Environment |
USA | Gorge J. Vojta | Executive Vice President, Bankers Trust Company |
AUS | Franz Vranitzky | Federal Chancellor |
NOR | Niels Werring, Jr.* | Chairman of the Board, Wilh. Wilhelmsen Limited A/S |
USA | John C. Whitehead | Former Deputy Secretary of State |
DEN | Nils Wilhjelm | Minister of Industry |
USA | Lynn R. Williams* | International President, United Steel Workers of America |
USA | James D. Wolfensohn* | President, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. |
FRG | Otto Wolff von Amerongen** | Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Otto Wolff A.G. |
SPA | Juan A. Yanez-Barnuevo | Director, Department of International Affairs of the Office of the Prime Minister |
SPA | Emilio de Ybarra y Churruca | Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Bilbao Vizcaya |
ITA | Paolo Zannoni* | President, Fiat Washington, Inc. |
RAPPORTEUR: | ||
USA | Grant F. Winthrop | Director, Milbank Wilson Winthrop |
IN ATTENDANCE: | ||
SPA | Julio C. Abreu | Director General, Central de Congresos; Organizer, 1989 Conference |
NETH | Saskia ten Asbroek | Executive Secretary, Bilderberg Meetings |
USA | Charles W. Muller | President, Murden & Company; Adviser, American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc. |
* Member of the Steering Committee
** Member of the Advisory Group
Agenda
May 12-14,1989 – La Toja, Spain
I. Domestic developments in Eastern Europe: policy implications for the West
II. Can the Alliance be sustained by military and arms control issues alone?
III. The long-term economic design of the E.C.: European sovereignty?
IV. Current events: U.S.-Soviet relations
V. Greater political and monetary union of Europe: European sovereignty?
VI. Global relationships: surpluses, deficits, and protectionism
VII. Environmental constraints