Bilderberg 2008 Chantilly
The 56th Bilderberg meeting was held in Chantilly, Virginia, USA on 5 – 8 June 2008.[1]
Contents
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[2]
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[3]
Rapporteurs
- Vendeline von Bredow, Business Correspondent, The Economist
- Adrian D. Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The Economist[4]
Notes
- ↑ Press release, Bilderberg Meetings, 5 June 2008, bilderbergmeetings.org, 7 July 2010.
- ↑ Conferences 2009-1954 - 00's, bilderbergmeetings.org, acessed 7 July 2010.
- ↑ Participants, Bilderberg Meetings, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 8 July 2010.
- ↑ Participants, Bilderberg Meetings, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 8 July 2010.
