2012 Bilderberg Conference
The Bilderberg Conference 2012 took place from May 30 - June 3, 2012 and was held in Westfields Marriott Hotel, Chantilly, Virginia, United States. Previous conferences had already held been there, in 2002 and 2008. Haifa in Israel had previously been proposed as a possible venue for 2012.
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
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