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BILDERBERG MEETINGS
St. Moritz, Switzerland
9-12 June 2011
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
| BEL | Davignon, Etienne | Minister of State, Honorary Chairman |
|---|---|---|
| DEU | Ackermann, Josef | Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG |
| GBR | Agius, Marcus | Chairman, Barclays PLC |
| USA | Alexander, Keith B. | Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency |
| INT | Almunia, Joaquín | Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Competition |
| USA | Altman, Roger C. | Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc. |
| FIN | Apunen, Matti | Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA |
| PRT | Balsemão, Francisco Pinto | Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister |
| FRA | Baverez, Nicolas | Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| FRA | Bazire, Nicolas | Managing Director, Groupe Arnault /LVMH |
| ITA | Bernabè, Franco | CEO, Telecom Italia SpA |
| USA | Bezos, Jeff | Founder and CEO, Amazon.com |
| SWE | Bildt, Carl | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| SWE | Björling, Ewa | Minister for Trade |
| NLD | Bolland, Marc J. | Chief Executive, Marks and Spencer Group plc |
| CHE | Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter | Chairman, Nestlé S.A. |
| AUT | Bronner, Oscar | CEO and Publisher, Standard Medien AG |
| CAN | Carney, Mark J. | Governor, Bank of Canada |
| FRA | Castries, Henri de | Chairman and CEO, AXA |
| ESP | Cebrián, Juan Luis | CEO, PRISA |
| NLD | Chavannes, Marc E. | Political Columnist, NRC Handelsblad; Professor of Journalism, University of Groningen |
| TUR | Ciliv, Süreyya | CEO, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. |
| CAN | Clark, Edmund | President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group |
| BEL | Coene, Luc | Governor, National Bank of Belgium |
| USA | Collins, Timothy C. | CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC |
| ESP | Cospedal, María Dolores de | Secretary General, Partido Popular |
| INT | Daele, Frans van | Chief of Staff to the President of the European Council |
| GRC | David, George A. | Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A. |
| DNK | Eldrup, Anders | CEO, DONG Energy |
| ITA | Elkann, John | Chairman, Fiat S.p.A. |
| DEU | Enders, Thomas | CEO, Airbus SAS |
| AUT | Faymann, Werner | Federal Chancellor |
| DNK | Federspiel, Ulrik | Vice President, Global Affairs, Haldor Topsøe A/S |
| USA | Feldstein, Martin S. | George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University |
| PRT | Ferreira Alves, Clara | CEO, Claref LDA; writer |
| GBR | Flint, Douglas J. | Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc |
| CHN | Fu, Ying | Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| IRL | Gallagher, Paul | Senior Counsel; Former Attorney General |
| CHE | Groth, Hans | Senior Director, Healthcare Policy & Market Access, Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer Europe |
| TUR | Gülek Domac, Tayyibe | Former Minister of State |
| NLD | Halberstadt, Victor | Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings |
| GRC | Hardouvelis, Gikas A. | Chief Economist and Head of Research, Eurobank EFG |
| USA | Hoffman, Reid | Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn |
| CHN | Huang, Yiping | Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University |
| USA | Hughes, Chris R. | Co-founder, Facebook |
| USA | Jacobs, Kenneth M. | Chairman & CEO, Lazard |
| CHE | Janom Steiner, Barbara | Head of the Department of Justice, Security and Health, Canton Grisons |
| FIN | Johansson, Ole | Chairman, Confederation of the Finnish Industries EK |
| USA | Johnson, James A. | Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC |
| USA | Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. | Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC |
| USA | Keane, John M. | Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired |
| GBR | Kerr, John | Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc |
| USA | Kissinger, Henry A. | Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. |
| USA | Kleinfeld, Klaus | Chairman and CEO, Alcoa |
| TUR | Koç, Mustafa V. | Chairman, Koç Holding A.S. |
| USA | Kravis, Henry R. | Co-Chairman and co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
| USA | Kravis, Marie-Josée | Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc. |
| INT | Kroes, Neelie | Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda |
| CHE | Kudelski, André | Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group SA |
| GBR | Lambert, Richard | Independent Non-Executive Director, Ernst & Young |
| INT | Lamy, Pascal | Director General, World Trade Organization |
| ESP | León Gross, Bernardino | Secretary General of the Spanish Presidency |
| CHE | Leuthard, Doris | Federal Councillor |
| FRA | Lévy, Maurice | Chairman and CEO, Publicis Groupe S.A. |
| BEL | Leysen, Thomas | Chairman, Umicore |
| USA | Li, Cheng | Senior Fellow and Director of Research, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution |
| DEU | Löscher, Peter | President and CEO, Siemens AG |
| GBR | Mandelson, Peter | Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel |
| IRL | McDowell, Michael | Senior Counsel, Law Library; Former Deputy Prime Minister |
| CAN | McKenna, Frank | Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group |
| GBR | Micklethwait, John | Editor-in-Chief, The Economist |
| FRA | Montbrial, Thierry de | President, French Institute for International Relations |
| ITA | Monti, Mario | President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi |
| RUS | Mordashov, Alexey A. | CEO, Severstal |
| USA | Mundie, Craig J. | Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation |
| NOR | Myklebust, Egil | Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA |
| DEU | Nass, Matthias | Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit |
| NLD | Netherlands, H.M. the Queen of the | |
| ESP | Nin Génova, Juan María | President and CEO, La Caixa |
| PRT | Nogueira Leite, António | Member of the Board, José de Mello Investimentos, SGPS, SA |
| NOR | Norway, H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of | |
| FIN | Ollila, Jorma | Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc |
| CAN | Orbinksi, James | Professor of Medicine and Political Science, University of Toronto |
| USA | Orszag, Peter R. | Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
| GBR | Osborne, George | Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| NOR | Ottersen, Ole Petter | Rector, University of Oslo |
| GRC | Papaconstantinou, George | Minister of Finance |
| TUR | Pekin, Şefika | Founding Partner, Pekin & Bayar Law Firm |
| FIN | Pentikäinen, Mikael | Publisher and Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat |
| USA | Perle, Richard N. | Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research |
| CAN | Prichard, J. Robert S. | Chair, Torys LLP |
| CAN | Reisman, Heather | Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. |
| USA | Rockefeller, David | Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank |
| INT | Rompuy, Herman van | President, European Council |
| USA | Rose, Charlie | Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose |
| NLD | Rosenthal, Uri | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| AUT | Rothensteiner, Walter | Chairman of the Board, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG |
| FRA | Roy, Olivier | Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute |
| USA | Rubin, Robert E. | Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury |
| ITA | Scaroni, Paolo | CEO, Eni S.p.A. |
| CHE | Schmid, Martin | President, Government of the Canton Grisons |
| USA | Schmidt, Eric | Executive Chairman, Google Inc. |
| AUT | Scholten, Rudolf | Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG |
| DNK | Schütze, Peter | Member of the Executive Management, Nordea Bank AB |
| CHE | Schweiger, Rolf | Member of the Swiss Council of States |
| INT | Sheeran, Josette | Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme |
| CHE | Soiron, Rolf | Chairman of the Board, Holcim Ltd., Lonza Ltd. |
| INT | Solana Madariaga, Javier | President, ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics |
| NOR | Solberg, Erna | Leader of the Conservative Party |
| ESP | Spain, H.M. the Queen of | |
| USA | Steinberg, James B. | Deputy Secretary of State |
| DEU | Steinbrück, Peer | Member of the Bundestag; Former Minister of Finance |
| GBR | Stewart, Rory | Member of Parliament |
| IRL | Sutherland, Peter D. | Chairman, Goldman Sachs International |
| GBR | Taylor, J. Martin | Chairman, Syngenta International AG |
| USA | Thiel, Peter A. | President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC |
| ITA | Tremonti, Giulio | Minister of Economy and Finance |
| INT | Trichet, Jean-Claude | President, European Central Bank |
| GRC | Tsoukalis, Loukas | President, ELIAMEP |
| USA | Varney, Christine A. | Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust |
| CHE | Vasella, Daniel L. | Chairman, Novartis AG |
| USA | Vaupel, James W. | Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
| SWE | Wallenberg, Jacob | Chairman, Investor AB |
| USA | Warsh, Kevin | Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board |
| NLD | Winter, Jaap W. | Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek |
| CHE | Witmer, Jürg | Chairman, Givaudan SA and Clariant AG |
| USA | Wolfensohn, James D. | Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC |
| INT | Zoellick, Robert B. | President, The World Bank Group |
| Rapporteurs | ||
| GBR | Bredow, Vendeline von | Business Correspondent, The Economist |
| GBR | Wooldridge, Adrian D. | Foreign Correspondent, The Economist |
Press Release
Bilderberg Meetings
The 59th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in St. Moritz, Switzerland from 9 – 12 June 2011. The Conference will deal mainly with Challenges for Growth: Innovation and Budgetary Discipline, the Euro and Challenges for the European Union, the role of Emerging Economies, Social Networks: Connectivity and Security Issues, New Challenges in the Middle East, Conflict Areas, Demographic Challenges, China, Switzerland: Can it remain successful in the future?
Approximately 130 participants will attend of whom about two-thirds come from Europe and the balance from North America and other countries. About one-third is from government and politics, and two-thirds are from finance, industry, labor, education, and communications. The meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion.
Bilderberg takes its name from the hotel in Holland, where the first meeting took place in May 1954. That pioneering meeting grew out of the concern expressed by leading citizens on both sides of the Atlantic that Western Europe and North America were not working together as closely as they should on common problems of critical importance. It was felt that regular, off-the-record discussions would help create a better understanding of the complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations in the difficult post-war period.
The Cold War has now ended. But in practically all respects there are more, not fewer, common problems – from trade to jobs, from monetary policy to investment, from ecological challenges to the task of promoting international security. It is hard to think of any major issue in either Europe or North America whose unilateral solution would not have repercussions for the other.
Thus the concept of a European-American forum has not been overtaken by time. The dialogue between these two regions is still – even increasingly – critical.
What is unique about Bilderberg as a forum is the broad cross-section of leading citizens that are assembled for nearly three days of informal and off-the-record discussion about topics of current concern especially in the fields of foreign affairs and the international economy; the strong feeling among participants that in view of the differing attitudes and experiences of the Western nations, there remains a clear need to further develop an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated; the privacy of the meetings, which has no purpose other than to allow participants to speak their minds openly and freely.
In short, Bilderberg is a small, flexible, informal and off-the-record international forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced.
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.
For further information refer to www.bilderbergmeetings.org. A list of participants is attached.
9 June 2011
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