Each year, the Bilderberg venue brings together leading members of the financial and corporate elite, politicians, handpicked scholars, journalists and scientists. It is An Anglo-Western European-North American Venue with participants from 21 Western countries (i.e Western Europe, US and Canada). With the exception of British born Polish Minister of Finance, Jacek Rostowski, there are no participants from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East (with the exception of Turkey). There are 14 women out of 140 participants. The official website of the Bilderberg describes the venue as “a forum for informal, off-the-record discussions about megatrends and the major issues facing the world.” Semi-secrecy prevails: While crucial negotiations are undertaken leading to far-reaching decisions, Prime Ministers and Finance Ministers in attendance are participating in their personal capacity; they are required not to report to Cabinet or to the Legislature. This year’s 61st meeting is scheduled to be held at the Grove Hotel near Watford, Hertfordshire, U.K., June 6-9, 2013. Various dimensions of the New World Order including the global economic crisis, the wars in the Middle East, biotechnology, cyber-warfare and Homeland security will be discussed behind closed doors. “Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.” bilderbergmeetings.org The Venue will regroup some 140 participants including George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Henry Kissinger, Timothy Geithner, former Secretary of the Treasury, Gen. David Petraeous, former head of the CIA, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, Richard N. Perle, prominent adviser to the Bush Junior administration, Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon, Eric Schmidt of Google, two former presidents of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn and Robert B. Zoellick, among others. Prominent members of the Anglo-American financial establishment include David Wright, Vice Chairman of Barclays, J. Michael Evans, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, Douglas J. Flint, Group Chairman of HSBC, Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO of Lazard, Peter D. Sutherland, chairman of Goldman Sachs International, Edmund Clark, President and CEO of Canada’s TD Bank Group. The Swiss banking establishment which overseas billions of dollars in undeclared “numbered bank accounts” is represented by Dr. Thomas Jakob Ulrich Jordan, the recently appointed Chairman of the Governing Board of the Schweizerische Nationalbank (Swiss National Bank). A handful of establishment journalists (Washington Post, Financial Times, Economist), economics professors, representatives from corporate thinks tanks including the American Enterprise Institute, Carnegie and the Council on Foreign Relations will also be in attendance. From the oil industry Simon Henry, CFO of Royal Dutch Shell and Robert Dudley, BP Group Chief Executive are on the list of participants. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall will also be attending. Canada is the World’s second largest producer of uranium with most of the mining in Saskatchewan. Uranium is an important input into the production of nuclear warheads. Major trends in medical research are also on the agenda. Prominent leaders of the pharmaceutical industry include Mark C. Fishman (right), President of Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, together with Dr. John Bell (left), Professor of Medicine at Oxford, who is a leading authority in biotechnology, working closely with Big Pharma. Bilderberg has confirmed that global data banks pertaining to Homeland Security will be discussed under the heading of “big data” and that Eric Schmidt of Google will be addressing the topic. The official list is not complete. In all likelihood, the names of several prominent delegates are not made public. An earlier report by Infowars quoting “inside sources” stated that the Middle East war discussions would focus on “prolonging war on Syria by arming anti-Assad elements” as well as destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities within a three year period. According to the Bilderberg website, the following vaguely defined topics will be discussed: • Can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs? • Jobs, entitlement and debt • How big data is changing almost everything • Nationalism and populism • US foreign policy • Africa’s challenges • Cyber warfare and the proliferation of asymmetric threats • Major trends in medical research • Online education: promise and impacts • Politics of the European Union • Developments in the Middle East • Current affairs – Bilderberg Group meeting, June 6-9, 2013 – Full List of Participants - Chairman: Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group Paul M. Achleitner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd Marcus Agius, Former Chairman, Barclays plc Helen Alexander, Chairman, UBM plc Roger C. Altman, Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners Matti Apunen, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA Susan Athey, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper Ali Babacan, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA Nicolas Barré, Managing Editor, Les Echos José Manuel Barroso, President, European Commission Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Olivier de Bavinchove, Commander, Eurocorps John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford Franco Bernabè, Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A. Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon Carl Bildt, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anders Borg, Swedish Minister for Finance Jean François van Boxmeer, CEO, Heineken Svein Richard Brandtzæg, President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA Oscar Bronner, Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt Peter Carrington, Former Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings Juan Luis Cebrián, Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA Edmund Clark, President and CEO, TD Bank Group Kenneth Clarke, Cabinet Minister Bjarne Corydon, Danish Minister of Finance Sherard Cowper-Coles, Business Development Director, International, BAE Systems plc Enrico Cucchiani, CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA Etienne Davignon, Belgian Minister of State; Former Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings Ian Davis, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company Robbert H. Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study Haluk Dinçer, President, Retail and Insurance Group, Sabancı Holding A.S. Robert Dudley, Group Chief Executive, BP plc Nicholas N. Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute Espen Barth Eide, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Investor AB Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS J. Michael Evans, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co. Ulrik Federspiel, Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S Martin S.Feldstein, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, NBER François Fillon, Former French Prime Minister Mark C. Fishman, President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Douglas J. Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc Paul Gallagher, Senior Counsel Timothy F Geithner, Former Secretary of the Treasury Michael Gfoeller, US Political Consultant Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company Ulrich Grillo, CEO, Grillo-Werke AG Lilli Gruber, Journalist – Anchorwoman, La 7 TV Luis de Guindos, Spanish Minister of Economy and Competitiveness Stuart Gulliver, Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc Felix Gutzwiller, Member of the Swiss Council of States Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Simon Henry, CFO, Royal Dutch Shell plc Paul Hermelin, Chairman and CEO, Capgemini Group Pablo Isla, Chairman and CEO, Inditex Group Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Lazard James A. Johnson, Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners Thomas J. Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC Robert D. Kaplan, Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor Alex Karp, Founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies John Kerr, Independent Member, House of Lords Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa Klaas H.W. Knot, President, De Nederlandsche Bank Mustafa V Koç,. Chairman, Koç Holding A.S. Roland Koch, CEO, Bilfinger SE Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute André Kudelski, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund J. Kurt Lauk, Chairman of the Economic Council to the CDU, Berlin Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School Thomas Leysen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group Christian Lindner, Party Leader, Free Democratic Party (FDP NRW) Stefan Löfven, Party Leader, Social Democratic Party (SAP) Peter Löscher, President and CEO, Siemens AG Peter Mandelson, Chairman, Global Counsel; Chairman, Lazard International Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Frank McKenna, Chair, Brookfield Asset Management John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations Mario Monti, Former Italian Prime Minister Craig J. Mundie, Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation Alberto Nagel, CEO, Mediobanca H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands Andrew Y.Ng, Co-Founder, Coursera Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc David Omand, Visiting Professor, King’s College London George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer Emanuele Ottolenghi, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University; Columnist, Habertürk Newspaper Alexis Papahelas, Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper Şafak Pavey, Turkish MP Valérie Pécresse, French MP Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute David H. Petraeus, General, U.S. Army (Retired) Paulo Portas, Portugal Minister of State and Foreign Affairs J. Robert S Prichard, Chair, Torys LLP Viviane Reding, Vice President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission Heather M. Reisman, CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. Hélène Rey, Professor of Economics, London Business School Simon Robertson, Partner, Robertson Robey Associates LLP; Deputy Chairman, HSBC Holdings Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman,Techint Group Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister Andreas Schieder, Austrian State Secretary of Finance Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc. Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG António José Seguro, Secretary General, Portuguese Socialist Party Jean-Dominique Senard, CEO, Michelin Group Kristin Skogen Lund, Director General, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International Martin Taylor, Former Chairman, Syngenta AG Tidjane Thiam, Group CEO, Prudential plc Peter A. Thiel, President, Thiel Capital Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Jakob Haldor Topsøe, Partner, AMBROX Capital A/S Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish Minister of Finance Daniel L. Vasella, Honorary Chairman, Novartis AG Peter R. Voser, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan Province, Canada Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB Kevin Warsh, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University Galen G.Weston, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited Baroness Williams of Crosby, Member, House of Lords Martin H. Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company David Wright, Vice Chairman, Barclays plc Robert B. Zoellick, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics – The Bilderberg Chairman is Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group – The Members of the Bilderberg Steering committee are: – DEU Ackermann, Josef Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd GBR Agius, Marcus Former Chairman, Barclays plc USA Altman, Roger C. Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners PRT Balsemão, Francisco P. Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA FRA Baverez, Nicolas Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP ITA Bernabè, Franco Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia NOR Brandtzæg, Svein R. President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA ESP Cebrián, Juan Luis Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA CAN Clark, W. Edmund President and CEO, TD Bank Group GBR Clarke, Kenneth Member of Parliament BEL Davignon, Etienne Minister of State DEU Enders, Thomas CEO, EADS DNK Federspiel, Ulrik Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S NLD Halberstadt, Victor Professor of Public Economics, Leiden University USA Jacobs, Kenneth M. Chairman and CEO, Lazard USA Johnson, James A. Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners GBR Kerr, John Independent Member, House of Lords USA Kleinfeld, Klaus Chairman and CEO, Alcoa TUR Koç, Mustafa V. Chairman, Koç Holding A.S. USA Kravis, Marie-Josée Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute USA Mathews, Jessica T. President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA Mundie, Craig J. Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation FIN Ollila, Jorma Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc USA Perle, Richard N. Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute CAN Reisman, Heather M. CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. AUT Scholten, Rudolf Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG IRL Sutherland, Peter D. Chairman, Goldman Sachs International USA Thiel, Peter A. President, Thiel Capital INT Trichet, Jean-Claude Honorary Governor, Banque de France; Former President, European Central Bank GRC Tsoukalis, Loukas President, ELIAMEP CHE Vasella, Daniel L. Honorary Chairman, Novartis AG SWE Wallenberg, Jacob Chairman, Investor AB USA Warsh, Kevin Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University David Rockefeller is a member of the Advisory Group bilderbergmeetings.org/governance.html
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