2012 Bilderberg Conference

The Bilderberg Conference 2012 took place at May 30 - June 3, 2012 and were held in Westfields Marriott Hotel, Chantilly, Virginia, United States, previous conferences were already held here in 2002 and 2008, Haifa in Israel was speculated as a possible venue earlier.

Agenda

The State of Trans-Atlantic Relations
Is Vigorous Economic Growth Attainable?
The Future of Democracy in the Developed World
The US Political Landscape
The European Political Landscape
A Conversation on US Foreign Policy
The Politics and Geo-Politics of Energy
Stability and Instability in the Middle East
Imbalances, Austerity and Growth
Sustainability of the Euro and its Consequences
What Does Putin 2.0 Mean?
What Can the West Do about Iran?
How Do Sovereign States Collaborate in Cyber Space?
China's Economic and Political Outlook

Delegates (alphabetical)

Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
Marcus Agius, Chairman, Barclays plc
Fouad Ajami, Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Keith B. Alexander, Commander, US Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency
Joaquín Almunia, Vice-President - Commissioner for Competition, European Commission
Roger C. Altman, Chairman of Evercore Partners
Luís Amado, Chairman, Banco Internacional do Funchal (BANIF)
Johan H. Andresen, Owner and CEO, FERD
Matti Apunen, Director of Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, President and CEO, Impresa; Former Prime Minister
Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Christophe Béchu, Senator, and Chairman, General Council of Maine-et-Loire
Prince Philippe of Belgium,
Enis Berberoğlu, Editor-in-Chief, Hürriyet Newspaper
Franco Bernabè, Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia
Nick Boles, Member of Parliament
Jonas Bonnier, President and CEO, Bonnier AB
Svein Richard Brandtzæg, President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
Oscar Bronner, Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt
Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation
Mark J. Carney, Governor, Bank of Canada
Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, PRISA; Chairman, El País
Willibald Cernko, CEO, UniCredit Bank Austria AG
Pierre André Chalendar, Chairman and CEO of Saint-Gobain
Jeppe Christiansen,CEO, Maj Invest
Anatoly B. Chubais, CEO, OJSC RUSNANO
Edmund Clark, W. Group President and CEO of TD Bank Group
Kenneth Clarke, Member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of Justice
Timothy C. Collins, CEO and Senior Managing Director, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
Fulvio Conti, CEO and General Manager, Enel S.p.A.
Mitchell E. Daniels jr., Governor of Indiana
Christopher DeMuth, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute
Thomas E. Donilon, National Security Advisor, The White House
Robert Dudley, Group Chief Executive, BP plc
John Elkann, Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
Thomas Enders, CEO of Airbus
Michael J. Evans, Vice Chairman, Global Head of Growth Markets, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Werner Faymann, Federal Chancellor of Austria
Ulrik Federspiel, Executive Vice President of Haldor Topsøe A/S
Niall Laurence A. Ferguson, Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
Douglas J. Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
Ying Fu, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, PRC
Paul Gallagher, Former Attorney General; Senior Counsel
Richard A. Gephardt, President and CEO, Gephardt Group
Anastasios Giannitsis, Former Minister of Interior and Professor of Development and International Economics, University of Athens
Austan D. Goolsbee, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
Lilli Gruber, Journalist - Anchorwoman, La 7 TV
Karel De Gucht, Commissioner for Trade, European Commission
Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
Britt Harris, CIO, Teacher Retirement System of Texas
eid Hoffman, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Yiping Huang, Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Jon M. Huntsman jr., Chairman, Huntsman Cancer Foundation
Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head Government Relations, Allianz SE
Igor S. Ivanov, Associate member, Russian Academy of Science; President, Russian International Affairs Council
Erik Izraelewicz, CEO, Le Monde
Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Lazard
James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman of Perseus LLC.
Vernon E. Jordan jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard
Alexander Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies
Alexander Karsner, Executive Chairman, Manifest Energy, Inc
Anousheh Karvar, Inspector, Inter-ministerial Audit and Evaluation Office for Social, Health, Employment and Labor Policies
Garry Kasparov, Chairman, United Civil Front (of Russia)
John Kerr, Independent Member, House of Lords
John Kerry, U.S Minister of Foreign Affairs
Fuat E. Keyman, Director, Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University
Henry Kissinger, Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.
Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Mustafa Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding A.Ş.
Roland Koch, CEO, Bilfinger Berger SE
Bassma Kodmani, Member of the Executive Bureau and Head of Foreign Affairs, Syrian National Council
Henry R. Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Neelie Kroes, Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda
Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund
Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization
Enrico Letta, Deputy Leader, Democratic Party of Italy
Ariel E. Levite, Nonresident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Cheng Li, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
John Lipsky, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew N. Liveris, President, Chairman and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company
Peter Löscher, President and CEO, Siemens AG
William J. Lynn, Chairman and CEO, DRS Technologies, Inc.
Peter Mandelson, Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel
Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jacob Mchangama, Director of Legal Affairs, Center for Political Studies (CEPOS)
Frank McKenna, Deputy Chair of TD Bank Group
Kenneth B. Mehlman, Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations
Jorge Moreira da Silva, First Vice-President, Partido Social Democrata (PSD)
Craig J. Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Matthias Nass, Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit
Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands
Juan María Nin Génova, Deputy Chairman and CEO, Caixabank
Michael Noonan, Minister for Finance
Peggy Noonan, Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc
Peter R. Orszag, Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Dimitri Papalexopoulos, Managing Director, Titan Cement Co.
Alexander Pechtold, Parliamentary Leader of Democrats 66
Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever PLC
Robert S. Prichard, Chair man of Torys LLP
Itamar Rabinovich, Global Distinguished Professor, New York University
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times
Steven Rattner, Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC
Alison M. Redford, Premier of Alberta
Heather M. Reisman, CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
Wolfgang Reitzle, CEO & President, Linde AG
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Charlie Rose, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
Dennis B. Ross, Counselor, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Jacek Rostowski, Minister of Finance
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría Antón, Vice President and Minister for the Presidency
Paul Scheffer, Professor of European Studies, Tilburg University
Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Jean-Dominique Senard, CEO, Michelin Group
David Shambaugh, Director, China Policy Program, George Washington University
Josette Sheeran, Vice Chairman, World Economic Forum
Risto Siilasmaa, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nokia Corporation
Jerry I. Speyer, Chairman and Co-CEO, Tishman Speyer
Pietro Supino, Chairman and Publisher, Tamedia AG
Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International
Peter A. Thiel, President, Clarium Capital / Thiel Capital
Serpil Timuray, CEO, Vodafone Turkey
Jürgen Trittin, Parliamentary Leader, Alliance 90/The Greens
Loukas Tsoukalis, President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
Jutta Urpilainen, Minister of Finance
Daniel L. Vasella, Chairman, Novartis AG
Pierre Vimont, Executive Secretary General, European External Action Service
Peter Voser, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman of Investor AB
Kevin Warsh, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Martin H. Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator of The Financial Times

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