Here are all the CEOs and politicians going to the top secret Bilderberg Conference this week
REUTERS/Miro Kuzmanovic A select group of global elite will gather in Telfs-Buchen, Austria, on Thursday for a super secret annual conference where they can discuss politics, foreign policy, and economics freely.
The Bilderberg Conference has been running since 1954 and according to its barebone website was “designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America.”
Attendees hold “informal discussions to help create a better understanding of the complex forces and major trends affecting Western nations.”
Topics for discussion this year include artificial intelligence, cyber security, Greece, Iran, and the US elections.
But it will be almost impossible to find out what is said on these topics as Bilderberg is closed to journalists. Because of this, conspiracy theorists believe it is where the global elite plot how to rule the world.
What we do know, however, is who will be attending. Some notable names include Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, LinkedIn Cofounder Reid Hoffman, and British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
Here’s the full list:
Henri de Castries, AXA Group, Chairman and CEO
Paul M.Achleitner, Deutsche Bank, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Marcus Agius, PA Consulting Group, Non-Executive Chairman
Thomas Ahrenkiel, Danish Intelligence Service (DDIS), Director
John R. Allen, US Department of State, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL
Roger C. Altman, Evercore, Executive Chairman
Anne Applebaum, Legatum Institute, Director of Transitions Forum
Matti Apunen, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA, Director
Zoë Baird, Markle Foundation, CEO and President
Ed Balls, Labour Party, Former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Impresa SGPS, Chairman
José M. Barroso, European Commission, Former President
Nicolas Baverez, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Partner,
René Benko, Founder, SIGNA Holding
Franco Bernabè, FB Group, Chairman
Ben van Beurden, Royal Dutch Shell, CEO
Laurent Bigorgne, Institut Montaigne, Director
Laurence Boone, French government, Special Adviser on Financial and Economic Affairs to the President
Ana Botín, Banco Santander, Chairman
Richard Svein Brandtzæg, Norsk Hydro, President and CEO
Oscar Bronner, Standard Verlagsgesellschaft, Publisher
William Burns, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, President
Patrick Calvar, DGSI, Director General
Henri de Castries, Bilderberg Meetings, Chairman; AXA Group, Chairman and CEO
Juan Luis Cebrián, Grupo PRISA, Executive Chairman
Edmund Clark, TD Bank Group, Retired Executive
Benoît Coeuré, European Central Bank, Member of the Executive Board
Andrew Coyne, National Post (Canada), Editor, Editorials and Comment
Mikael L. Damberg, Swedish government, Minister for Enterprise and Innovation
Karel De Gucht, Belgian government, Former EU Trade Commissioner, State Minister
Thomas E. Donilon, Former U.S. National Security Advisor; O’Melveny & Myers, Partner and Vice Chair
Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer, CEO
Ann Dowling, Royal Academy of Engineering, President
Regina Dugan, Google, Vice President for Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects
Trine Eilertsen, Aftenposten, Political Editor,
Merete Eldrup, TV 2 Danmark A/S, CEO
John Elkann, EXOR, Chairman and CEO; Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Chairman
Thomas Enders, Airbus Group, CEO
Mary Erdoes, JP Morgan Asset Management, CEO
Rona Fairhead, BBC Trust, Chairman
Ulrik Federspiel, Haldor Topsøe, Executive Vice President
Martin S. Feldstein, NBER President Emeritus; Harvard University, Professor of Economics
Niall Ferguson, Harvard University, Professor of History, Gunzberg Center for European Studies
Heinz Fischer, Austrian government, Federal President
Douglas Flint, HSBC, Group Chairman
Christoph Franz, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Chairman of the Board
Louise O. Fresco, Wageningen University and Research Centre, President and Chairman Executive Board
Kenneth Griffin, Citadel Investment, Founder and CEO
Lilli Gruber, “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV, Executive Editor and Anchor
Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po, Professor of Economics
Gönenç Gürkaynak, ELIG Law Firm (Turkey), Managing Partner
Alfred Gusenbauer, Former Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
Victor Halberstadt, Leiden University, Professor of Economics
Erich Hampel, UniCredit Bank Austria, Chairman
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering
Wolfgang Hesoun, Siemens Austria, CEO
Philipp Hildebrand, BlackRock, Vice Chairman
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Wolfgang Ischinger, Munich Security Conference, Chairman,
Jacobs Kenneth, Lazard, Chairman and CEO
Julia Jäkel, Gruner + Jahr, CEO
James A. Johnson, Johnson Capital Partners, Chairman
Alain Juppé, Mayor of Bordeaux, Former Prime Minister
Joe Kaeser, Siemens AG, President and CEO
Alex Karp, Palantir Technologies, CEO
Gilles Kepel, Sciences Po, University Professor
John Kerr, Scottish Power, Deputy Chairman
Ilhan Kesici, Turkish Parliament, MP
Henry Kissinger, Kissinger Associates, Chairman
Klaus Kleinfeld, Alcoa, Chairman and CEO
Klaas Knot, De Nederlandsche Bank, President
Mustafa Koç, Koç Holding, Chairman
Henry Kravis, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Co-Chairman and Co-CEO
Marie-Josée Kravis, Hudson Institute, Senior Fellow and Vice Chair
André Kudelski, Kudelski Group, Chairman and CEO
Kurt Lauk, Globe Capital Partners, President
Carola Lemne, The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, CEO
Stuart Levey, HSBC, Chief Legal Officer
Ursula von der Leyen, German government, Minister of Defence
Thomas Leysen, KBC Group, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Shiraz Maher, King’s College London, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR
Christina Markus Lassen, Danish government, Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Policy and Stabilisation DNK
Jessica Mathews, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Distinguished Fellow
James Mattis, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University USA
Pierre Maudet, Vice-President of the State Council, Department of Security, Police and the Economy of Geneva CHE
David I. McKay, President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada CAN
Nuray Mert, Columnist, Professor of Political Science, Istanbul University TUR
Jim Messina, CEO, The Messina Group USA
Charles Michel, Prime Minister BEL
John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP USA
Beddoes Minton, Zanny Editor-in-Chief, The Economist GBR
Mario Monti, Senator-for-life; President, Bocconi University ITA
Leena Mörttinen, Executive Director, The Finnish Family Firms Association FIN
Craig Mundie, J. Principal, Mundie & Associates USA
Heather Munroe-Blum, Chairperson, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board CAN
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands
Michael O’Leary, CEO, Ryanair Plc IRL
George Osborne, First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Exchequer GBR
Soli Özel, Columnist, Haberturk Newspaper; Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University TUR
Dimitri Papalexopoulos, Group CEO, Titan Cement Co. GRC
Catherine Pégard, President, Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles FRA
Richard Perle, N. Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute USA
David H. Petraeus, Chairman, KKR Global Institute USA
Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Honorary President of The Hellenic Council of State GRC
Heather Reisman, M. Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. CAN
Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group ITA
Gerhard Roiss, CEO, OMV Austria AUT
Robert E. Rubin, Co Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury USA
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister NLD
Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Leader, Partido Socialista Obrero Español PSOE ESP
John Sawers, Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners GBR
Selin Sayek Böke, Vice President, Republican People’s Party TUR
Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc. USA
Rudolf Scholten, CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG AUT
Jean-Dominique Senard, CEO, Michelin Group FRA
Karl Sevelda, CEO, Raiffeisen Bank International AG AUT
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General, NATO INT
Alexander Stubb, Minister of Finance FIN
Katrin Suder, Deputy Minister of Defense DEU
Peter D. Sutherland, UN Special Representative; Chairman, Goldman Sachs International IRL
Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman, BP plc; Chairman, AB Volvo SWE
Olaug Svarva, CEO, The Government Pension Fund Norway NOR
Peter A. Thiel, President, Thiel Capital USA
Loukas Tsoukalis, President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy GRC
Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons INT
António M. Vitorino, Partner, Cuetrecasas, Concalves Pereira, RL PRT
Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB SWE
Vin Partner Weber, Mercury LLC USA
Martin H. Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times GBR
James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company USA
Robert B. Zoellick, Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group USA
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