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

References

External links

• Official website participants 2012 edition
• The agenda