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BILDERBERG MEETINGS
RYE BROOK CONFERENCE
10-12 May 1985
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
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
| ITA | Giovanni Agnelli** | President, FIAT S.p.A. |
| USA | Dwayne O. Andreas | Chairman, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Inc. |
| NOR | Johan H. Andresen | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tiedemann Group |
| AUS | Hannes Androsch* | Chairman of the Managing Board, Creditanstalt-Bankverein; Former Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Finance |
| USA | Hans H. Angermueller | Vice Chairman, Citibank, N.A. |
| USA | George W. Ball** | Former Under Secretary of State |
| POR | Francisco Pinto Balsemao | Former Prime Minister; Director, Jornal Expresso |
| CAN | Thomas J. Bata | Chairman, Bata Ltd. |
| USA | Jack F. Bennett* | Director and Senior Vice President, Exxon Corporation |
| NOR | Eivinn Berg | Ambassador and Peramanent Representative, Norwegian Delegation to NATO; Former State Secretary |
| TUR | Selahattin Beyazit* | Director of Companies |
| USA | John C. Bierwirth | Chairman, Grumman Corporation |
| TUR | M. Nuri Birgi | Ambassador at Large |
| ICE | Bjorn Bjarnason | Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Morgunbladid |
| CAN | Conrad M. Black | Chairman, Argus Corporation, Ltd. |
| USA | Bill Bradley | U.S. Senator, New Jersey |
| USA | Nicholas F. Brady | Chairman, Dillon, Read & Company, Inc.; Former U.S. Senator (New Jersey) |
| USA | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia University; Former Assistant to President Carter for National Security Affairs |
| USA | William P. Bundy** | Former Editor, Foreign Affairs |
| USA | Louis W. Cabot | Chairman, Cabot Corporation |
| ITA | Umberto Cappuzzo | Chief of Staff, Italian Army |
| GRE | Costa Carras* | Member of the Board, Greek Shipping Cooperation Committee |
| FRA | Helene Carrere Dencausse | Professor, Institut dEtudes Politiques de Paris; Professor of History and Political Science of the Soviet Union at the Sorbonne |
| SPA | Jaime Carvajal Urquijo* | Chairman, Banco Hispano Industrial |
| SWI | Kaspar V. Cassani | Senior Vice President, IBM Corporation; Chairman, IBM World Trade EMEA Corporation |
| SPA | Juan Luis Cebrian | Director and Editor-in-Chief, El Pais |
| INT | A. W. Clausen | President, The World Bank |
| POR | Jose Manuel Torres Couto | Secretary-General, General Trade Union UGT |
| FRG | Ralf Dahrendorf | Professor, Konstanz University (School of Social Sciences) |
| USA | Kenneth W. Dam | Deputy Secretary of State |
| BEL | Etienne Davignon | Former Member, Commission of the European Communities |
| USA | Murray H. Finley* | President, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO |
| IRE | Garret Fitzgerald | Prime Minister of the Irish Republic |
| FRA | Jean Francois-Poncet | Former Miister of Foreign Affairs |
| FRA | Michel Francois-Poncet | Chairman, Paribas North America |
| USA | Charles Getchell* | Partner, Gray & Wendell; Rapporteur Bilderberg Meetings |
| FRA | Michel Giraud | Senator; President, Regional Council of Ile de France |
| USA | Donald Gregg | Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs |
| USA | William E. Griffith | Proessor, Political Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| CAN | Franklyn Griffiths | Professor, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto |
| SWE | Sten Gustafsson* | Chairman of the Board, Saab-Scania AB |
| ICE | Geir Hallgrimsson* | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| SWI | Hans Heckmann | Executive Vice President, Member of the Executive Board, Union Bank of Switzerland |
| USA | Henry J. Heinz II** | Chairman, H.J. Heinz Company, Inc. |
| SWE | Mats Hellstroem | Minister for Foreign Trade |
| FRG | Alfred Herrhausen* | Managing Director, Deutsche Bank A.G. |
| USA | John J. Horan | Chairman, Merck & Company, Inc. |
| USA | Robert Hormats | Director, Goldman Sachs International Corporation; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs |
| FIN | Jaakko Iloniemi | Member of the Management Board, The Union Bank of Finland; Former Ambassador to the U.S. |
| UK | Martin W. Jacomb | Vice Chairman, Kleinwort, Benson Limited |
| BEL | Daniel E. Janssen* | Member Executive Committee, Solvay & Cie, S.A. |
| USA | James R. Jones | U.S. Congressman, Oklahoma |
| USA | Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.* | Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; Former President, National Urban League |
| GRE | Basil Kafiris | Governor, Agricultural Bank of Greece |
| FRG | Karl Kaiser | Director, Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Affairs |
| TUR | Jak V. Kamhi | Chairman of the Board, Profilo Holding A.S. |
| UK | Geoffrey C. Kent | Chairman and Chief Executive, Imperial Group, PLC |
| USA | Henry A. Kissinger* | Former Secretary of State; Professor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University |
| UK | Andrew Knight* | Editor, The Economist |
| INT | Emile Van Lennep | Former Secretary-General, OECD |
| UK | Lord Lever of Manchester | Former Cabinet Minister and Financial Secretary; Former Member of Parliament |
| LIE | H.S.H. Prince Hans-Adam von Liechtenstein | |
| NET | Hans B. Van Liemt | Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors, D.S.M. |
| POR | Ernani Rodrigues Lopes | Minister of Finance |
| USA | Winston Lord* | President, The Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. |
| CAN | Donald S. Macdonald | Senior Partner, McCarthy & McCarthy; Chairman, Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada |
| CAN | Roy MacLaren | President, CB Media Ltd. and Publisher, Canadian Business; Former Member of Parliament and Minister of National Revenue |
| USA | Bruce K. MacLaury* | President, The Brookings Institution |
| FRA | Jacques Maisonrouge | Vice Chairman, Liquid Air Corporation |
| USA | Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.* | U.S. Senator, Maryland |
| FRG | Alois Mertes | Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| FRA | Thierry de Montbrial* | Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique |
| ITA | Mario Monti* | Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy and Director of the Institute of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan |
| SWI | Felicien Morel | Director of Finance, Canton of Fribourg; Former M.P. |
| DEN | Niels Norlund* | Editor-in-Chief, Berlingske Tidende |
| TUR | Osman Olcay | Ambassador to NATO; Former Foreign Minister |
| INT | Robert ONeill | Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies |
| INT | Jean-Claude Paye | Secretary-General, OECD |
| USA | Richard Perle | Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, U.S. Department of Defense |
| USA | Leland S. Prussia | Chairman, Bank of America |
| USA | Rozanne L. Ridgway | U.S. Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic |
| USA | David Rockefeller** | Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee |
| INT | Bernard W. Rogers | Supreme Allied Commander Europe |
| UK | Lord Roll of Ipsden** | Chairman, S. G. Warburg & Co., Ltd. |
| ITA | Guido Rossi | Lawyer |
| NET | H. Onno Ruding | Minister of Finance, Chairman of the Interim Committee of the IMF |
| ITA | Giovanni Sartori | Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University |
| USA | Richard M. Scammon | Director, Elections Research Center |
| ITA | Mario Schimberni | President, Montedison |
| USA | Brent Scowcroft | Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates; Former Member of Presidents General Advisory Committee on Arms Control |
| FRA | E. Antoine Seilliere* | Director-General, Compagnie Generale dIndustrie et de Participations |
| UK | Patrick Sheehy | Chairman, BAT Industries, PLC |
| SPA | Javier Solana Madariaga | Minister of Culture |
| FRG | Theo Sommer* | Publisher, Die Zeit |
| USA | Herbert Stein | Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
| UK | Norman Tebbit | Secretary of Trade and Industry; Member of Parliament, Member of the Prime Ministers Cabinet |
| CAN | Pierre Elliott Trudeau | Former Prime Minister |
| SWI | Victor Umbricht** | Member of the Advisory Board, Ciba-Geigy Ltd.; Mediator, East African Community |
| NET | Joop M. Den Uyl | Parliamentary Leader, Labour Party; Former Prime Minister |
| AUS | Franz Vranitzky | Minister of Finance |
| UK | Mark Weinberg | Chairman, Hambro Life Assurance, PLC |
| NOR | Niels Werring, Jr.* | Senior Partner, Wilh. Wilhelmsen |
| USA | John C. Whitehead | Chairman, International Advisory Board, Goldman Sachs & Co., Inc. |
| FRG | Norbert Wieczorek | Member of Parliament |
| USA | James D. Wolfensohn | President, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. |
| FRG | Otto Wolff von Amerongen** | Chairman of the Board of Management, Otto Wolff A.G. |
| CAN | Bernard Wood | Director, North-South Institute |
| FRG | Manfred Worner | Minister of Defense |
| USA | Edwin H. Yeo III | Managing Director, Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc., former Under Secretary of the Treasury |
| UK | Lord Young of Graffham | Minister without Portfolio; Member Prime Minsiters Cabinet |
| ITA | Paolo Zannoni* | Director, Department of Political Analysis, FIAT S.p.A. |
| IN ATTENDANCE: | ||
| UK | John Hennings | Organizer, 1986 Conference; Former High Commissioner in Singapore |
| USA | Charles W. Muller | President, Murden and Company |
| AUS | Georg Zimmer-Lehman | Managing Director, Creditanstalt-Bankverein |
| RAPPORTEURS: | ||
| USA | Charles Getchell | Partner, Gray & Wendell |
| USA | Grant F. Winthrop | Communications and Public Relations Consultant |
* Member of the Steering Committee
** Member of the Advisory Committee
Agenda
May 10-12, 1985 – Rye Brook, New York, USA
I. Divergent social and economic trends in the Atlantic World
II. How should the West deal with the Soviet Bloc?
III. The Strategic Defense Initiative
IV. How should the West deal with developing countries?
V. Current events: the U.S. Budget and the European perspective
VI. Operating the Alliance
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