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BILDERBERG MEETINGS
SANDEFJORD CONFERENCE
14-16 May 1982
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
CHAIRMAN:
Walter Scheel*
Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany
HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR EUROPE AND CANADA:
Victor Halberstadt*
Professor of Public Finance, Leyden University
HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR THE UNITED STATES:
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.*
Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
HONORARY TREASURER:
Willem F. Duisenberg*
President, De Nederlandsche Bank N.V.
DEN | Tage Andersen | Managing Director and Chief Executive, Den Danske Bank |
USA | Dwayne O. Andreas | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Archer Daniels Midland Co. |
AUS | Hannes Androsch* | Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors, Creditanstalt-Bankverein |
FRG | Egon Bahr | Member of Parliament; Author Working Paper, Session II |
USA | George W. Ball** | Senior Managing Director, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb Inc. |
GRE | Maria Becket | Former Advisor to Ministers of Coordination and Foreign Affairs |
USA | Jack F. Bennett* | Director and Senior Vice President, Exxon Corporation |
FR | Georges Berthoin | European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission |
INT | Christoph Bertram* | Director, The International Institute for Strategic Studies; Author Working Paper Session II |
NETH | Ernst H. van der Beugel** | Professor of International Relations, Leyden University; Director of Companies |
TUR | Selahattin Beyazit* | Director of Companies |
ICE | Bjorn Bjarnason | Political Journalist, Morgunbladid |
NOR | Gro Harlem Brundtland | Member of Parliament, Former Prime Minister |
AUS | Erhard Busek | Deputy Mayor of Vienna; Former Secretary General O.V.P. |
GRE | Costa Carras* | Member of the Board, Union of Greek Shipowners |
SPA | Jaime Carvajal Urquijo | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Banco Urquijo |
FIN | C. Fredrik K. Castren | President and Chief Executive Officer, Kyml Kymmene Oy |
CAN | Jean Chretien | Minister of Justice and Attorney General |
DEN | Henning Christophersen | Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee |
NETH | Wisse Dekker | President, Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken |
CAN | Paul Desmarais | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada |
CAN | William A. Dimma | President, A.E. LePage Ltd. and Board Chairman, Polysar Ltd. |
USA | Hermann F. Eilts | University Professor of International Relations, Research Professor of History and Political Science, Boston University; Author Working Paper Session III |
USA | Murray H. Finley* | President, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union |
USA | Paul B. Finney* | Editorial Director, Thomson Magazines |
FR | Jean Francois-Poncet | Former Minister of Foreign Affairs |
NOR | Knut Frydenlund | Member of Parliament; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs |
USA | Evan G. Galbraith | U.S. Ambassador to France |
USA | Charles Getchell* | Lawyer and Trustee |
USA | Meg Greenfield | Editorial Page Editor, The Washington Post |
SWE | Sten Gustafsson* | Managing Director, SAB-SCANIA AB |
ICE | Geir Hallgrimsson* | Member of Parliament, Former Prime Minister |
SWI | Fritz Halm | Chairman of the Board of Directors, SIG Swiss Industrial Company; Chairman, Swiss Employers Union |
USA | Robert A. Hanson | President and Chief Operating Officer, Deere & Company |
USA | Henry J. Heinz II** | Chairman of the Board, H.J. Heinz Company; President, American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc. |
FRG | Alfred Herrhausen* | Managing Director, Deutsche Bank AG |
DEN | Erik Hoffmeyer | Chairman of the Board of Governors, Denmarks Nationalbank |
USA | Karen E. House | Washington Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal |
UK | Robin Ibbs | Executive Director, Imperial Chemical Industries; Former Head, Central Policy Review Staff, Cabinet Office |
AUS | Hans Igler* | Partner, Schoeller & Co. Bankaktiengesellschaft |
CAN | H.N.R. Jackman | Chairman of the Board, The Empire Life Insurance Company |
USA | Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.* | Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Attorneys-at-Law); Former President, National Urban League |
UK | Elie Kedourie | Professor of Politics, University of London; Author Working Paper Session III |
USA | Henry A. Kissinger* | Former Secretary of State; Professor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University |
UK | Andrew Knight* | Editor, The Economist |
FRG | Helmut Kohl | Chairman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group |
INT | Max Kohnstamm** | Former President, European University Institute at Florence |
FR | Philippe Lagayette | Directeur de Cabinet, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance; Author Working Paper Session IV |
BEL | Baron Lambert* | Chairman, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert S.A. |
FRG | Otto L. Graf Lambsdorff | Minister of Economics |
INT | Jacques de Larosiere | Managing Director, I.M.F. |
UK | Nigel Lawson | Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Energy |
INT | Emile van Lennep | Secretary General, O.E.C.D. |
GRE | G.P. Livanos | Membaer of the Board, Union of Greek Shipowners |
USA | Winston Lord* | President, Council on Foreign Relations |
INT | Joseph M.A.H. Luns | Secretary General, N.A.T.O. |
SWI | Franz Lutolf* | General Manager and Member of the Executive Board, Swiss Bank Corporation |
CAN | Donald S. MacDonald | Senior Partner, McCarthy & McCarthy |
USA | Bruce K. MacLaury* | President, The Brookings Institution |
USA | David J. Mahoney | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Norton Simon Inc. |
FR | Jacques Maisonrouge | Chairman of the Board, I.B.M. World Trade Corporation |
POR | Rogerio Martins | Chairman, Simapre Investment Company; Former Secretary of State of Industry |
NETH | Hans A.F.M.O. van Mierlo | Minister of Defense |
FR | Thierry de Montbrial* | Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique |
NOR | Tor Moursund | Managing Director and Chief Executive, Christianla Bank og Kreditkasse |
NOR | Einar Fr. Nagell-Erichsen | Managing Director, Aftenposten/Schibstedgruppen |
NETH | Prince Claus of the Netherlands | |
CAN | James R. Nininger | President, The Conference Board of Canada |
DEN | Niels Norlund* | Editor-in-Chief, Berlingske Tidende |
IT | Piero Ostellino | Columnist, Corriere della Sera |
INT | Sylvia Ostry | Head, Department of Economics and Statistics, O.E.C.D.; Author Working Paper Sesion IV |
UK | David Owen | Joint Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Member of Parliament, Former Foreign Secretary |
TUR | Haluk Ozgul | Ambassador of Turkey in Norway |
USA | Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. | Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Author Working Paper Session II |
USA | Richard Pipes | Senior Staff Member, National Security Council (Baird Professor of History, Harvard University, on leave) |
FRG | Karl Otto Pohl | President, Deutsche Bundesbank |
IT | Romano Prodi* | Professor of Industrial Economics, University of Bologna |
USA | James Roche | Senior Deputy Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State |
USA | David Rockefeller** | Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee |
INT | Bernard W. Rogers | Supreme Allied Commander Europe |
IT | Virginio Rognoni | Minister of Internal Affairs |
UK | Lord Roll of Ipsden** | Chairman, S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. |
USA | Robert V. Roosa | Senior Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Company |
UK | Sir John Sainsbury* | Chairman, J. Sainsbury PLC |
FR | E. Antoine Seilliere | Director General, Compagnie Generale dIndustrie et de Participations |
IT | Stefano Silvestri* | Deputy Director, Institute of International Affairs |
USA | William E. Simon | Chairman, Crescent Diversified Ltd.; Former Secretary of the Treasury; Author Working Paper Session IV |
BEL | Henri F. Simonet | Member of Parliament; Author Working Paper Session I |
NOR | Anders C. Sjaastad | Minister of Defense |
NOR | Hermod Skanland | Deputy Governor of the Bank of Norway |
UK | Lord Soames | |
FRG | Theo Sommer* | Publisher, Die Zeit |
NETH | Andre S. Spoor | Editor-in-Chief, NRC Handelsblad |
NOR | Thorvald Stoltenberg | Member of the International Secretariat of the Federation of Trade Unions |
USA | Robert S. Strauss | Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Attorneys-at-Law); Former U.S. Special Trade Representative for Trade Negotiations |
NOR | Svenn Stray | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
SWE | Bjorn Svedberg | President, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson |
NOR | Otto Grieg Tidemand | Shipowner; Former Minister of Defense |
TUR | Metin Toker | Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper |
SWI | Victor H. Umbricht** | Mediator, East African Community; Member of the Board of Ciba-Geigy Ltd. |
POR | Alexandre de Azeredo Vaz Pinto | President, The Institute of Foreign Investment; Former Minister of Commerce |
USA | Paul A. Volcker | Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System |
USA | Ben J. Wattenberg | Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Author Working Paper Session I |
NOR | Niels Werring, Jr.* | Senior Partner, Wilh. Wilhelmsen |
USA | Joseph H. Williams* | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, The Williams Companies |
NOR | Kaare Willoch | Prime Minister |
SWE | Lars Wohlin | Governor, Swedish Federal Bank |
FRG | Otto Wolff von Amerongen | Chairman of the Board of Management, Otto Wolff A.G. |
FRG | Manfred Worner | Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU; Author Working Paper Session I |
OBSERVERS: | ||
CAN | Bernard C. Thillaye | Director, Strategic Policy Planning, Department of National Defense |
AUS | Georg Zimmer-Lehmann | General Manager of Creditanstalt-Bankverein |
IN ATTENDANCE: | ||
IT | Carlos Aritario | Personal Advsor to Minister Rognoni |
CAN | Jacques Demers | Special Advisor, Officer of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada |
FRG | Hanno Hartmann | Assistant to Mr. Walter Scheel |
NETH | Anne Hoogendoorn | Executive Secretary, Bilderberg Meetings |
FRG | R.K. Lochner | Accompanying Mr. Helmut Kohl as interpreter |
USA | Charles Muller | Assistant Secretary, American Friends of Bilderberag; President, Murden & Co. |
FRG | Guido Peruzzo | Assistant to the Minister of Economics |
INT | Gianni Ravasio | Assistant to Mr. Gaston Thorn |
FRG | Rudiger von Rosen | Head, Presidents Office, Deutsche Bundesbank |
FRG | Folkmar Stoecker | Assistant to Mr. Walter Scheel |
FRG | Horst Teltschik | Head, Office of Mr. Helmut Kohl |
RAPPORTEURS: | ||
USA | Charles Getchell | |
USA | Grant F. Winthrop |
* Member of the Steering Committee
** Member of the Advisory Group
Agenda
May 14-16, 1982 – Sandefjord, Norway
Tensions in European-American Relations
I. Divergent policies and attitudes in the North Atlantic Community
II. What can arms control achieve?
III. Middle East: Issues at stake
IV. Economic issues: dogmas and realities
V. Discussion of Current events:
A. The Falkland Islands Crisis
B. East-West Relations: Poland, Trade, and Finance