Bilderberg 2013 Watford

The Grove, Watford England, site of Bilderberg 2013

Bilderberg 2013 Watford, The 61st Bilderberg meeting took place from 6-9 June 2013 in Hertfordshire, UK. Around 140 participants from 21 European and North American countries attended.

Agenda

• 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

Participants

• Chairman, Henri de Castries, France, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group.
• Paul M. Achleitner, Germany, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG.
• Josef Ackermann, Germany, Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd.
• Marcus Agius, Great Britain, Former Chairman, Barclays plc.
• Helen Alexander, Great Britain, Chairman, UBM plc.
• Roger C. Altman, United States, Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners.
• Matti Apunen, Finland, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA.
• Susan Athey, United States, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
• Asli Aydıntaşbaş, Turkey, Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper.
• Ali Babacan, Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs.
• Edward M. Balls, Great Britain, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portugal, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA
• Nicolas Barré, France, Managing Editor, Les Echos
• José M. Durão Barroso, President, European Commission.
• Nicolas Baverez, France, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• Olivier de Bavinchove, Commander, Eurocorps.
• John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford.
• Franco Bernabè, Italy, Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A.
• Jeff Bezos, United States, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com.
• Carl Bildt, Sweden, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
• Anders Borg, Sweden, Minister for Finance.
• Jean François van Boxmeer, Netherlands, Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, Heineken N.V.
• Svein Richard Brandtzæg, Norway, President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
• Oscar Bronner, Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt.
• Peter Carrington, Great Britain, Former Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings.
• Juan Luis Cebrián, Spain, Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA.
• W. Edmund Clark, President and CEO, TD Bank Group.
• Kenneth Clarke, Great Britain, Member of Parliament.
• Bjarne Corydon, Denmark, Minister of Finance.
• Sherard Cowper-Coles, Business Development Director, International, BAE Systems plc
• Enrico Tommaso Cucchiani, Italy, CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
• Etienne Davignon, Belgium, Minister of State; Former Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings
• Ian Davis, Great Britain, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company.
• Robbert H. Dijkgraaf, Netherlands, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
• Haluk Dinçer, Turkey, President, Retail and Insurance Group, Sabancı Holding A.S.
• Robert Dudley, Great Britain, Group Chief Executive, BP plc
• Nicholas N. Eberstadt, United States, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute.
• Espen Barth Eide, Norway, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Börje Ekholm, Sweden, President and CEO, Investor AB.
• Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS.
• J. Michael Evans, United States, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
• Ulrik Federspiel, Denmark, Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S.
• Martin S. Feldstein, United States, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, NBER.
• François Fillon, France, Former Prime Minister.
• Mark C. Fishman, , United States, President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
• Douglas J. Flint, Great Britain, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
• Paul Gallagher, Ireland, Senior Counsel.
• Timothy F. Geithner, United States, Former Secretary of the Treasury
• Michael Gfoeller, United States, Political Consultant.
• Donald E. Graham, United States, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company.
• Ulrich Grillo, Germany, CEO, Grillo-Werke AG.
• Lilli Gruber, Italy, Journalist - Anchorwoman, La 7 TV.
• Luis de Guindos, Spain, Minister of Economy and Competitiveness.
• Stuart Gulliver, Great Britain, Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc.
• Felix Gutzwiller, Switzerland,Member of the Swiss Council of States.
• Victor Halberstadt, Netherlands, 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, Great Britain, CFO, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
• Paul Hermelin, France, Chairman and CEO, Capgemini Group.
• Pablo Isla, Spain, Chairman and CEO, Inditex Group.
• Kenneth M. Jacobs, United States, Chairman and CEO, Lazard.
• James A. Johnson, United States, Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners.
• Thomas J. Jordan, Switzerland, Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank.
• Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., United States, Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC.
• Robert D. Kaplan, United States, Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor.
• Alex Karp, United States, Founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies.
• John Kerr, Great Britain, Independent Member, House of Lords.
• Henry A. Kissinger, United States, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
• Klaus Kleinfeld, United States, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa.
• Klaas H.W. Knot, Netherlands, President, De Nederlandsche Bank.
• Mustafa V. Koç, Turkey, Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
• Roland Koch, Germany, CEO, Bilfinger SE.
• Henry R. Kravis, United States,Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Marie-Josée Kravis, United States, Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute
• André Kudelski, Switzerland, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group.
• Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Greece, Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A.
• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund.
• Kurt J. Lauk, Germany, Chairman of the Economic Council to the CDU, Berlin.
• Lawrence Lessig, United States, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
• Thomas Leysen, Belgium, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group.
• Christian Lindner, Germany, Party Leader, Free Democratic Party (FDP NRW)
• Stefan Löfven, Sweden, Party Leader, Social Democratic Party (SAP)
• Peter Löscher, Germany, President and CEO, Siemens AG.
• Peter Mandelson, Great Britain, Chairman, Global Counsel; Chairman, Lazard International.
• Jessica T. Mathews, United States, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Frank McKenna, Canada, Chair, Brookfield Asset Management.
• John Micklethwait, Great Britain, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist.
• Thierry de Montbrial, France, President, French Institute for International Relations.
• Mario Monti, Italy, Former Prime Minister.
• Craig J. Mundie, United States, Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation.
• Alberto Nagel, Italy, CO, Mediobanca.
• H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands.
• Andrew Y. Ng, United States, Co-Founder, Coursera.
• Jorma Ollila, Finland, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc.
• David Omand, Great Britain, Visiting Professor, King's College London
• George Osborne, Great Britain, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• Emanuele Ottolenghi, United States, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
• Soli Özel, Turkey, Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University; Columnist, Habertürk Newspaper.
• Alexis Papahelas,Greece, Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper.
• Şafak Pavey, Turkey, Member of Parliament (CHP).
• Valérie Pécresse, France, Member of Parliament (UMP).
• Richard N. Perle, United States, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
• David H. Petraeus, United States, General, U.S. Army (Retired).
• Paulo Portas, Portugal, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs
• J. Robert S. Prichard, Canada, Chair, Torys LLP.
• Viviane Reding, Vice President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission.
• Heather M. Reisman, Canada, CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
• Hélène Rey, France, Professor of Economics, London Business School
• Simon Robertson, Great Britain, Partner, Robertson Robey Associates LLP; Deputy Chairman, HSBC Holdings.
• Gianfelice Rocca, Italy, Chairman, Techint Group.
• Jacek Rostowski,Poland, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.
• Robert E. Rubin, United States, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
• Mark Rutte, Netherlands, Prime Minister.
• Andreas Schieder, Austria, State Secretary of Finance
• Eric E. Schmidt, United States, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
• Rudolf Scholten, Austria, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG.
• António José Seguro, Portugal, Secretary General, Socialist Party.
• Jean-Dominique Senard, France, CEO, Michelin Group.
• Kristin Skogen Lund, Norway, Director General, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise.
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, United States, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Peter D. Sutherland, Ireland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International.
• Martin Taylor, Great Britain, 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, Denmark, Partner, AMBROX Capital A/S.
• Jutta Urpilainen, Finland, Minister of Finance.
• Daniel L. Vasella, Honorary Chairman, Novartis AG
• Peter R. Voser, Great Britain, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
• Brad Wall, Canada, Premier of Saskatchewan.
• Jacob Wallenberg, Sweden, Chairman, Investor AB.
• Kevin Warsh, United States, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• Galen G. Weston, Canada, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited.
• Shirley Williams of Crosby, Great Britain, Member, House of Lords.
• Martin H. Wolf, Great Britain, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
• James D. Wolfensohn, United States, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company.
• David Wright, Great Britain, Vice Chairman, Barclays plc.
• Robert B. Zoellick, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics.

External resources

• Cameron to attend 'secretive' Bilderberg meeting, BBC News, 7 June 2013.
• Sarah Butcher, 7 Bankers Who Never Miss The Most Secretive, Annual Meeting Of The World's Rich And Powerful, Business Insider, 3 June 2013
• Tom Griffin, Bilderberg 2013, Spinwatch, 6 June 2013
• Matthew Holehouse, Osborne, Clarke and Balls to attend Bilderberg Group meeting, telegraph.co.uk, 3 June 2013.
• Matthew Holehouse, Bilderberg Group? No conspiracy, just the most influential group in the world, telegraph.co.uk, 6 June 2013.
• Harry Phibbs, Now that it is no longer secret, is the Bilderberg Group losing its cachet?, ConservativeHome, 8 June 2013.
• Dorothy Thornhill, A reflection post Bilderberg conference in Watford, mycouncillor.org.uk, 11 June 2013.