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
- Huang Yiping, 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