Bilderberg Group/2016 Bilderberg Meeting Participant List

Bilderberg Participant Lists
2016 Bilderberg Meeting Participant List
June 9, 2016

The following press release and participants list was obtained from the official website of Bilderberg Meetings. Participant lists from nearly every Bilderberg Meeting since 1954 are also available as well as tax returns for the non-profit U.S.-based corporation American Friends of Bilderberg from 2007-2013 and the U.K.-based Bilderberg Association’s annual reports from 2011-2013.

2016 Bilderberg Meeting

Dresden, Germany 9-12 June Final list of Participants

CHAIRMAN

Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman and CEO, AXA Group

• Aboutaleb, Ahmed (NLD), Mayor, City of Rotterdam
• Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG
• Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting Group
• Ahrenkiel, Thomas (DNK), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence
• Albuquerque, Maria Luís (PRT), Former Minister of Finance; MP, Social Democratic Party
• Alierta, César (ESP), Executive Chairman and CEO, Telefónica
• Altman, Roger C. (USA), Executive Chairman, Evercore
• Altman, Sam (USA), President, Y Combinator
• Andersson, Magdalena (SWE), Minister of Finance
• Applebaum, Anne (USA), Columnist Washington Post; Director of the Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute
• Apunen, Matti (FIN), Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
• Aydin-Düzgit, Senem (TUR), Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Istanbul Bilgi University
• Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), CEO, Artemis
• Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Former President of the European Commission
• Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
• Bengio, Yoshua (CAN), Professor in Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal
• Benko, René (AUT), Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board, SIGNA Holding GmbH
• Bernabè, Franco (ITA), Chairman, CartaSi S.p.A.
• Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
• Blanchard, Olivier (FRA), Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute
• Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
• Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
• Breedlove, Philip M. (INT), Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe
• Brende, Børge (NOR), Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El País
• Charpentier, Emmanuelle (FRA), Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
• Coeuré, Benoît (INT), Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
• Costamagna, Claudio (ITA), Chairman, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti S.p.A.
• Cote, David M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Honeywell
• Cryan, John (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG
• Dassù, Marta (ITA), Senior Director, European Affairs, Aspen Institute
• Dijksma, Sharon A.M. (NLD), Minister for the Environment
• Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), CEO, Axel Springer SE
• Dyvig, Christian (DNK), Chairman, Kompan
• Ebeling, Thomas (DEU), CEO, ProSiebenSat.1
• Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
• Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus Group
• Engel, Richard (USA), Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
• Fabius, Laurent (FRA), President, Constitutional Council
• Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive, Haldor Topsøe A/S
• Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA
• Ferguson, Niall (USA), Professor of History, Harvard University
• Flint, Douglas J. (GBR), Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
• Garicano, Luis (ESP), Professor of Economics, LSE; Senior Advisor to Ciudadanos
• Georgieva, Kristalina (INT), Vice President, European Commission
• Gernelle, Etienne (FRA), Editorial Director, Le Point
• Gomes da Silva, Carlos (PRT), Vice Chairman and CEO, Galp Energia
• Goodman, Helen (GBR), MP, Labour Party
• Goulard, Sylvie (INT), Member of the European Parliament
• Graham, Lindsey (USA), Senator
• Grillo, Ulrich (DEU), Chairman, Grillo-Werke AG; President, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie
• Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV
• Hadfield, Chris (CAN), Colonel, Astronaut
• Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University
• Harding, Dido (GBR), CEO, TalkTalk Telecom Group plc
• Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, DeepMind
• Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investment, LLC
• Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
• Höttges, Timotheus (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG
• Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard
• Jäkel, Julia (DEU), CEO, Gruner + Jahr
• Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
• Jonsson, Conni (SWE), Founder and Chairman, EQT
• Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. (USA), Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
• Kaeser, Joe (DEU), President and CEO, Siemens AG
• Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies
• Kengeter, Carsten (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Börse AG
• Kerr, John (GBR), Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power
• Kherbache, Yasmine (BEL), MP, Flemish Parliament
• Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
• Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
• Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
• Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
• Lagarde, Christine (INT), Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Levin, Richard (USA), CEO, Coursera
• Leyen, Ursula von der (DEU), Minister of Defence
• Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group
• Logothetis, George (GRC), Chairman and CEO, Libra Group
• Maizière, Thomas de (DEU), Minister of the Interior, Federal Ministry of the Interior
• Makan, Divesh (USA), CEO, ICONIQ Capital
• Malcomson, Scott (USA), Author; President, Monere Ltd.
• Markwalder, Christa (CHE), President of the National Council and the Federal Assembly
• McArdle, Megan (USA), Columnist, Bloomberg View
• Michel, Charles (BEL), Prime Minister
• Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
• Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
• Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC), President, New Democracy Party
• Morneau, Bill (CAN), Minister of Finance
• Mundie, Craig J. (USA), Principal, Mundie & Associates
• Murray, Charles A. (USA), W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
• Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
• Noonan, Michael (IRL), Minister for Finance
• Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
• O’Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair Plc
• Ollongren, Kajsa (NLD), Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam
• Özel, Soli (TUR), Professor, Kadir Has University
• Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co.
• Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute
• Philippe, Edouard (FRA), Mayor of Le Havre
• Pind, Søren (DNK), Minister of Justice
• Ratti, Carlo (ITA), Director, MIT Senseable City Lab
• Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
• Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister
• Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
• Schäuble, Wolfgang (DEU), Minister of Finance
• Schieder, Andreas (AUT), Chairman, Social Democratic Group
• Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc.
• Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
• Schwab, Klaus (INT), Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
• Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Simsek, Mehmet (TUR), Deputy Prime Minister
• Sinn, Hans-Werner (DEU), Professor for Economics and Public Finance, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Skogen Lund, Kristin (NOR), Director General, The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
• Standing, Guy (GBR), Co-President, BIEN; Research Professor, University of London
• Svanberg, Carl-Henric (SWE), Chairman, BP plc and AB Volvo
• Thiel, Peter A. (USA), President, Thiel Capital
• Tillich, Stanislaw (DEU), Minister-President of Saxony
• Vetterli, Martin (CHE), President, NSF
• Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation
• Wallenberg, Jacob (SWE), Chairman, Investor AB
• Weder di Mauro, Beatrice (CHE), Professor of Economics, University of Mainz
• Wolf, Martin H. (GBR), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Press Release

The 64th Bilderberg meeting is set to take place from 9 – 12 June 2016 in Dresden, Germany. A total of around 130 participants from 20 countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media have been invited. The list of participants is available on www.bilderbergmeetings.org.

The key topics for discussion this year include:

• Current events
• China
• Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity
• Middle East
• Russia
• US political landscape, economy: growth, debt, reform
• Cyber security
• Geo-politics of energy and commodity prices
• Precariat and middle class
• Technological innovation

Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg conference is an annual meeting designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. Every year, between 120-150 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media are invited to take part in the conference. About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; approximately one third from politics and government and the rest from other fields.

The conference is a forum for informal discussions about major issues facing the world. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed.

Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written. Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.