Bilderberg 2008 Chantilly

The 56th Bilderberg meeting was held in Chantilly, Virginia, USA on 5 – 8 June 2008.

Agenda

According to the Bilderberg website, the agenda included the following items:

• Cyber-terrorism
• A Nuclear-Free World
• Managing Financial Turbulence
• US Foreign Policy Without Change
• How Serious Are the Threats on Our Economies
• Islam in Europe
• Africa
• Afghanistan, Challenge for the West
• Iran-Pakistan
• A Look at the Future
• The Mounting Threat of Protectionism
• Russia
• After Bush: The Future of US-EU Relations
• Current Affairs: US Elections

Participants

• Honorary Chairman Etienne Davignon, Vice Chairman, Suez-Tractebel
• Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
• John Adams, Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada
• Fouad Ajami, Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
• Keith B. Alexander, Director, National Security Agency
• Joaquín Almunia, Commissioner, European Commission
• George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Economy and Finance, Greece
• Roger C. Altman, Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
• Ali Babacan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
• Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister, Netherlands
• Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister, Portugal
• Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• Franco Bernabè, CEO, Telecom Italia Spa
• Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
• Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden.
• Antti Blåfield, Senior Editorial Writer, Helsingin Sanomat
• Stine Bosse CEO, TrygVesta
• Ian Brodie, Chief of Staff, Prime Minister's Office, Canada
• Oscar Bronner, Publisher and Editor, Der Standard
• Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA
• Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, PRISA
• Edmund Clark, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
• Kenneth Clarke, Member of Parliament, UK
• Kristin Clemet, Managing Director, Civita
• Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
• Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman, Lafarge
• António Costa, Mayor of Lisbon
• Chester A. Crocker, James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies
• Thomas A. Daschle, Former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader
• Paul Desmarais, Jr., Chairman and co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada
• Anna Diamantopoulou, Member of Parliament, Greece
• Thomas E. Donilon, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
• Mario Draghi, Governor, Banca d'Italia
• Brigitte Ederer, CEO, Siemens AG Österreich
• N. Murray Edwards, Vice Chairman, Canadian Natural Resources Limited
• Andres Eldrup, President, DONG A/S
• John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
• Martha J. Farah Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
• Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA
• Joschka Fischer, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany
• Harold E. Ford, Jr., Vice Chairman, Merill Lynch & Co., Inc.
• Peter Forstmoser, Professor for Civil, Corporation and Capital Markets Law, University of Zürich
• Paul Gallagher, Attorney General, Ireland
• Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal
• Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group
• Harold Goddijn, CEO, TomTom
• Zeynep Göğüş, Journalist; Founder, EurActiv.com.tr
• Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
• Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
• Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
• Seppo Honkapohja, Member of the Board, Bank of Finland
• Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO
• Allan B. Hubbard, Chairman, E & A Industries, Inc.
• Jan Huyghebaert, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group
• Wolfgang Ischinger, Former Ambassador of Germany to the UK and US.
• Kenneth Jacobs, Deputy Chairman, Head of Lazard U.S., Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
• James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
• Tom Johnstone, President and CEO, AB SKF
• Vernon E.Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
• Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Minister of European Affairs, France
• John Kerr, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
• Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
• Eckart von Klaeden, Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU
• Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Alcoa
• Mustafa Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
• Bassma Kodmani, Director, Arab Reform Initiative
• Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
• Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
• Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission
• Aleksander Kwasniewski, Former President, Poland
• Wolfgang Leitner, CEO, Andritz AG
• Bernardino León Gross, Secretary General, Office of the Prime Minister, Spain
• Peter Mandelson, Commissioner, European Commission
• Christophe de Margerie, CEO, Total
• Roger Martin, Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
• János Martonyi, Professor of International Trade Law; Partner, Baker & McKenzie; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary
• Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner, European Commission
• William J. McDonough, Vice Chairman and Special Advisor to the Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
• Frank McKenna, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group
• Tom McKillop, Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
• Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations
• Mario Monti, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
• Craig J. Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
• Egil Myklebust, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA
• Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit
• H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands
• Christine Ockrent, CEO, French television and radio world service
• Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
• Maud Olofsson, Minister of Enterprise and Energy; Deputy Prime Minister, Sweden.
• H.R.H. the Prince of Orange
• George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Faik Öztrak, Member of Parliament, Turkey
• Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Former Minister of Finance; President of Notre Europe, Italy.
• Alexis Papahelas, Journalist, Kathimerini
• Dimitris Papalexopoulos, CEO, Titan Cement Co. S.A.
• Henry M.Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, USA
• Frank H. Pearl, Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC
• Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• François Pérol, Deputy General Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs, France
• Volker Perthes, Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
• H.R.H. Prince Phillipe, Belgium.
• J. Robert S. Prichard, President and CEO, Torstar Corporation
• Heather M.Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
• Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, USA
• Rui Rio, Mayor of Porto
• David Rockefeller, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
• Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander
• Charlie Rose, Producer, Rose Communications
• Flemming Rose, Editor, Jyllands Posten
• Dennis B. Ross, Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Barnett R. Rubin Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation, New York University
• Ferit Şahenk, Chairman, Doğuş Holding A.Ş.
• Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina
• Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO, Google
• Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
• Fritz. H. Schur, Fritz Schur Gruppen
• Karel Schwarzenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
• Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas
• George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• H.M. the Queen of Spain
• Markus Spillmann, Editor-in-Chief and Head Managing Board, Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG
• Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot Professor, Harvard University
• J. Martin Taylor, Chairman, Syngenta International AG
• Peter A. Thiel, President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
• Frans Timmermans, Minister of European Affairs, Netherlands
• Dmitri V. Trenin, Deputy Director and Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center
• Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank
• Sanam Vakil, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
• Manuel Valls, Member of Parliament, France
• Thomas Varvitsiotis, Co-Founder and President, V + O Communication
• Daniel L. Vasella, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG
• Raimo Väyrynen, Director, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs
• Hubert Védrine, Hubert Védrine Conseil
• Knut Vollebaek, High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE
• Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB
• J. Vin Weber, CEO, Clark & Weinstock
• James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
• Paul Wolfowitz, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Robert B.Zoellick, President, The World Bank Group

Rapporteurs

• Vendeline von Bredow, Business Correspondent, The Economist
• Adrian D. Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The Economist