2017 Bilderberg Conference
Bilderberg conferences are an annual private gathering of 120 to 150 people of the European and North American political elite, experts from industry, finance, academia, and the media, established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard.[1]
The 2017 Bilderberg Conference took place between 1-4 June 2017 at the Westfields Marriott Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, United States.[2] Previous Bilderberg conferences were held here in 2002, 2008 and 2012.[3]
Agenda
A list of key topics for discussion at the 2017 Bilderberg conference was published on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. Topics for discussion included:
- The Trump Administration: A progress report
- Transatlantic relations
- The Transatlantic defence alliance: bullets, bytes and bucks
- The direction of the European Union
- Globalization
- Climate change
- Jobs, income and unrealised expectations
- Fake news
- Why is populism growing?
- Russia in the international order
- The Near East
- Nuclear proliferation
- China
- Current events
Delegates (alphabetical)
A list of expected delegates was published by the Bilderberg Group.[4]
Chairman: Henri de Castries
- Paul Achleitner
- Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
- Marcus Agius
- Mustafa Akyol
- Roger Altman
- Frank Bsirske, Bundesvorsitzender-VerDi
- José Manuel Barroso
- Oliver Bäte
- Werner Baumann
- René Benko
- Anne Berner
- Ana Patricia Botín
- Svein Richard Brandtzæg
- John O. Brennan
- Thomas Buberl
- William Joseph Burns
- Juan Luis Cebrián
- Kristin Clemet
- David S. Cohen (attorney)
- Patrick Collison
- Tom Cotton
- Cui Tiankai
- Mathias Döpfner
- John Elkann
- Tom Enders
- Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
- Niall Ferguson
- Fabiola Gianotti
- Sandro Gozi
- Lindsey Graham
- Evan G. Greenberg
- Kenneth C. Griffin
- Lilli Gruber
- Luis de Guindos
- Avril Haines
- Victor Halberstadt
- Ralph Hamers
- Connie Hedegaard
- Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert
- Mellody Hobson
- Reid Hoffman
- Nick Houghton
- Wolfgang Ischinger
- Kenneth M. Jacobs
- James A. Johnson (Minnesota politician)
- Vernon Jordan
- Alex Karp
- Carsten Kengeter
- Henry Kissinger
- Susanne Klatten
- Klaus Kleinfeld
- Klaas Knot
- Stephen Kotkin
- Henry Kravis
- Marie-Josée Kravis
- André Kudelski
- Christine Lagarde
- Thomas Leysen
- Chris Liddell
- Annie Lööf
- Jessica Mathews
- Terry McAuliffe
- David I. McKay
- H. R. McMaster
- John Micklethwait
- Zanny Minton Beddoes
- Maurizio Molinari
- Lisa Monaco
- Bill Morneau
- Craig Mundie
- Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
- Peggy Noonan
- Michael O'Leary
- Denis O'Brien
- George Osborne
- Alexis Papahelas
- David Petraeus
- Søren Pind
- Benoît Puga
- Gideon Rachman
- Heather Reisman
- Albert Rivera
- Johanna Rosén
- Wilbur Ross
- David Rubenstein
- Robert Rubin
- Gwendolyn Rutten
- Michael Sabia
- John Sawers
- Eric Schmidt
- Johann Schneider-Ammann
- Beppe Severgnini
- Radosław Sikorski
- Boyan Slat
- Jens Spahn
- Randall L. Stephenson
- Jens Stoltenberg
- Lawrence Summers
- Peter Sutherland
- Peter Thiel
- J. D. Vance
- Björn Wahlroos
- Marcus Wallenberg
- Amy Walter
- Galen Weston Jr.
- Sharon White
- Leon Wieseltier
- Martin Wolf
- James Wolfensohn
- Pierre Wunsch
- Gerhard Zeiler
- Jeffrey Zients
- Robert Zoellick
See also
References
- "Japan–US Relations—Past, Present and Future". Daily Yomiuri. 8 December 1991.
- Skelton, Charlie (1 June 2017). "Bilderberg 2017: secret meeting of global leaders could prove a problem for Trump". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- "Press Release - Bilderberg Meetings". bilderbergmeetings.org. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- "Participants - Bilderberg Meetings". bilderbergmeetings.org. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
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