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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