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BILDERBERG MEETINGS
Zurich, Switzerland
8-11 June 1995
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Chairman:
Peter Carrington
Former Chairman of the Board, Christie’s International plc.; Former Secretary General, NATO
Honorary Secretary-General for Europe and Canada:
Victor Halberstadt
Professor of Public Economics, Leiden University, Netherlands
Honorary Secretary-General for U.S.A.:
Casimir A. Yost
Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
CH | Josef Ackermann | President of the Executive Board, Credit Suisse |
I | Giovanni Agnelli** | Chairman, Fiat S.p.A. |
I | Umberto Agnelli* | Chairman, IFIL S.p.A. |
SF | Martti Ahtisarri | President of the Republic of Finland |
USA | Paul A. Allaire* | Chairman, Xerox Corporation |
P | Luis Mira Amaral | Minister of Industry and Energy |
USA | Dwayne O. Andreas | Chairman, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Inc. |
P | Francisco Pinto Balsemao* | Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, Sojornal sarl; Former Prime Minister |
S | Percy Barnevick* | President and C.E.O., ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. |
F | Claude Bebear | Chairman and CEO, AXA Group |
USA | Lloyd M. Bentsen | Partner, Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand, Chartered; Former Secretary of the Treasury |
D | Cristoph Bertram* | Diplomatic Correspondent, Die Zeit; Former Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies |
TR | Selhattin Beyazit* | Director of Companies |
ICE | Bjorn Bjarnason | Minister of Culture and Education |
INT | Ritt Bjerregaard | Commissioner, European Communities |
CDN | Conrad M. Black* | Chairman, The Telegraph plc |
TR | Cem Boyner | Chairman, New Democracy Movement |
INT | Hans van den Broek | Commissioner, European Communities |
GB | E. John P. Browne | Chief Executive Officer, BP Exploration Company Ltd. |
USA | John H. Bryan | Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee Corporation |
GR | Costas Carras* | Director of Companies |
P | Maria Carrilho | Professor of Sociology |
E | Jaime Carvajal Urquijo* | Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento |
B | Adriana Cerretelli | Correspondent in Brussels, IL SOLE/24 Ore |
TR | Hikmet Cetin | Deputy Prime Minister; Former Minister for Foreign Affairs |
INT | Willy Claes | Secretary General of NATO |
USA | Jon S. Corzine | Chairman and Senior Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co. |
CH | Flavio Cotti | Minister for Foreign Affairs |
GR | Theodore A. Couloumbis | President, Greek Foreign Policy Institute |
CDN | Devon G. Cross | Head of the Donner Canadian Foundation |
INT | Jose Cutileiro | Secretary General, Western European Union |
USA | Kenneth W. Dam* | Max Pam Proessor of American and Foreign Law, University of Chicago Law School; Former Deputy Secretary of State |
B | Etienne Davignon* | Executive Chairman, Societe Generale de Belgique; Former Vice Chairman of the Commission of the European Communities |
USA | Lynn E. Davis | Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, Department of State |
CH | Jean-Pascal Delamuraz | Vice-President of the Federal Council; Minister of Economy |
I | Mario Draghi | Director General, Ministry of the Treasury |
CDN | Marie-Josee Drouin* | Executive Director, Hudson Institute of Canada |
D | Uffe Ellemann-Jensen | Chairman Liberal Party; Former Minister for Foreign Affairs |
USA | Thomas S. Foley | Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; Former Speaker of the House of Representatives |
CH | Walter Frehner | Chairman of the Board of Directors, Swiss Bank Corporation |
USA | Thomas L. Friedman | Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times |
CH | Fritz Gerber | Chairman and CEO, F. Hoffman-La Roche & Co., A.G. |
USA | David R. Gergen | Visiting Professor, The Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University; Senior Fellow, The Aspen Institute |
IRL | Dermot Gleeson | Attorney General of Ireland |
B | John J. Goossens | President and CEO, Belgacom |
CDN | Allen E. Gotlieb | Former Ambassador to the United States of America |
GB | David Hannay | Permanent Representative, U.K. Mission to the United Nations |
SF | Jukka Harmaja | President and CEO, Enso-Gutzeit Oy |
CH | Hans Heckman | Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Union Bank of Switzerland |
N | Westye Hoegh* | Chairman of the Board, Leif Hoegh & Co. AS; President, Norwegian Shipowners Association |
USA | Richard C. Holbrooke | Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State |
SF | Jaakko Iloniemi* | Managing Director, Centre for Finnish Business and Policy Studies; Former Ambassador to the United States of America |
F | Phillipe Jaffre | Chairman and CEO, Elf Aquitaine |
B | Daniel E. Janssen | Chairman of the Executive Committee, Solvay S.A. |
USA | Peter Jennings | Anchor and Senior Editor, ABC News World News Tonight |
USA | Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.* | Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, (Attorneys-at-Law) |
USA | Peter R. Kann | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.; Publisher, The Wall Street Journal |
D | Hans-Peter Keitel | Chairman of the Board, Hochtief AG |
USA | Robert M. Kimmitt | Managing Director, Lehman Brothers Inc.; Former Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs |
USA | Henry A. Kissinger* | Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc. |
CDN | Ralph P. Klein | Premier of Alberta |
GB | Andrew Knight* | Non Executive Director, News Corporation |
INT | Max Kohnstamm** | Former Secretary General, Action Committee for Europe; Former President, European University Institute |
D | Hilmar Kopper* | Spokesman of the Board of Managing Directors, Deutsche Bank AG |
NL | Pieter Korteweg* | President and CEO, Robeco Group; Honorary Treasurer of Bilderberg Meetings |
A | Max Kothbauer* | Deputy Chairman, Creditanstalt Bankverein |
CH | Alex Krauer | Chairman and Managing Director, Ciba-Geigy Limited |
USA | William Kristol | Chairman, Project for the Republican Future |
D | Karl F. Lamers | Member of Parliament (Spokesman for Foreign Affairs, CDU/CSU) |
GB | Norman Lamont | Member of Parliament; Former Chancellor of the Exchequer; Director of N.M. Rothschild |
F | Andre Levy-Lang* | Chairman of the Board of Management, Banque Paribas |
E | Francisco Luzon Lopez | Chairman and CEO, Argentaria |
A | Alexander R. Maculan | Chairman, Maculan Holding AG |
USA | Serif Mardin | Chairman, Department Islamic Studies, American University, Washington, D.C. |
SF | Bjorn Mattsson | President and CEO, Cultor, Ltd. |
CH | Helmut O. Maucher | Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nestle Ltd. |
F | Thierry de Montbrial* | Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique |
CDN | J. Fraser Mustard | President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research |
NL | Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands | |
PL | Andrej Olechowski | Former Minister for Foreign Affairs |
GR | George A. Papandreou | Minister of Education |
USA | Arno A. Penzias | Vice President Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories |
D | Hans-Fredeich von Ploetz | State Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs |
CDN | J. Robert Pritchard | President, University of Toronto |
CH | David de Pury* | Chairman, BBC Brown Boveri Ltd. and Co-Chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Group |
GB | Giles H. Radice | Member of Parliament; Chairman of the European Movement |
USA | David Rockefeller** | Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee |
GB | Eric Roll** | President, S.G. Warburg Group plc |
GB | Emma Rothschild | Director, Centre for History and Economics; Fellow, Kings College, Cambridge University |
INT/I | Renato Ruggiero* | Director General, World Trade Organization; Former Minister of Trade |
F | Francoise Sampermans | Chairman, Groupe Express |
ICE | Stephan E. Schmidheiny | Chairman, ANOVA Holdings Ltd. |
D | Jurgen Schrempp | Chairman, Daimler Benz AG |
CH | Wolfgang Schurer | Chairman, MS Management Service AG |
INT | Klaus Schwab | President, World Economic Forum |
USA | Nancy E. Soderberg | Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs |
GB | H. Dennis Stevenson | Chairman of SRU Group and the Tate Gallery |
N | Thorvald Stoltenberg | Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia |
IRL | Peter D. Sutherland* | Former Director General, World Trade Organization; Former member, Commission of the European Communities |
S | His Majesty The King of Sweden | |
GB | J. Martin Taylor | Chief Executive, Barclays Bank plc |
F | Jean-Claude Trichet | Governor, Banque de France |
E | Federico Trillo Figueroa | Vice President and Member of Parliament (Partido Popular) |
S | Ines Uusmann | Minister of Transport and Communication |
D | Gunther Verheugen | Secretary General, Social Democratic Party |
FIN | Pertti Voutilainen | President, Merita Bank Ltd. |
A | Franz Vranitsky | Federal Chancellor |
NL | Karel Vuursteen | Chairman of the Board, Heineken N.V. |
GB | William A. Waldegrave | Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
NL | Jacques Wallage | Parliamentary Leader PvdA (Labour Party) |
USA | Stanley A. Weiss | Chairman, Business Executives for National Security, Inc. |
USA | John C. Whitehead* | Former Deputy Secretary of State |
INT/USA | James D. Wolfensohn* | President, The World Bank; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. |
D | Otto Wolff von Amerongen** | Chairman and C.E.O. of Otto Wolff GmbH |
USA | Paul Wolfowitz | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Dean, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies |
Rapporteurs: | ||
USA | Rudolph S. Rauch | Managing Director, The Metropolitan Opera Guild |
USA | Alice Victor | Executive Assistant, Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. |
IN ATTENDANCE: | ||
NL | Maja Banck | Executive Secretary, Bilderberg Meetings |
CDN | Mary Alice Carroll | Local Organizer 1996 |
CH | Margrit Markstaller | Local Organizer 1995 |
USA | Charles Muller | President, Murden and Company; Adviser, American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc. |
*Member of the Steering Committee
**Member of the Advisory Group
Agenda
June 8-11, 1995 – Burgenstock, Switzerland
I. What is NATO supposed to do?
II. Is there work for all?
III. Atomization of society: Impact on political behavior of new technology
IV. Looking (Back) at Washington
V. Current events: Turkey and the Atlantic Alliance
VI. Is there still a North Atlantic Community?
VII. Should the European Union integrate further, and why?
VIII. Our agendas for WTO and World Bank
IX. Current events: Former Yugoslavia
X. Peacekeeping in an UNstable World
XI. Lessons of the New Currency Crises
XII. Practical steps towards a better Global Governance and Rules