2015 Bilderberg Conference
The 2015 Bilderberg Conference took place between 11-14 June 2015 at the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol in Telfs-Buchen, Austria.[1] The hotel had previously held the Bilderberg Conference in 1988.[2]
Interalpen Hotel-Tyrol, held in 1988 and 2015
The 41st G7 summit took place the week before the conference, and was held at the Schloss Elmau, sixteen miles away near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria, Germany.[3]
Agenda
A list of key topics for discussion at the 2015 Bilderberg conference was published on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. Topics for discussion included:[1]
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Chemical Weapons Threats
- Current Economic Issues
- European Strategy
- Globalisation
- Greece
- Iran
- Middle East
- NATO
- Russia
- Terrorism
- United Kingdom
- USA
- US Elections
Delegates (alphabetical)
A list of expected delegates was published by the Bilderberg Group.[4][5]
- Paul Achleitner,
- Marcus Agius, Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group
- Thomas Ahrenkiel, Director of the Danish Intelligence Service (DDIS)
- John R. Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, United States Department of State
- Roger Altman, Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners
- Anne Applebaum, Director of Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute
- Matti Apunen, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum
- Zoë Baird, CEO and President, Markle Foundation
- Ed Balls, Former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Francisco Pinto Balsemão Chairman, Impresa SGPS
- José Manuel Barroso, Former President of the European Commission
- Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- René Benko Founder, Signa Holding
- Franco Bernabè, Chairman, FB Group
- Ben van Beurden, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
- Laurent Bigorgne, Director, Institut Montaigne
- Laurence Boone, Special Adviser on Financial and Economic Affairs to the President
- Ana Patricia Botín, Chairman, Banco Santander
- Svein Richard Brandtzaeg, President and CEO, Norsk Hydro
- Oscar Bronner, Publisher, Der Standard
- William Joseph Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Patrick Calvar, Director General, DGSI
- Henri de Castries, Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings; Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
- Juan Luis Cebrián, Executive Chairman, PRISA
- W. Edmund Clark, Retired Executive, TD Bank Group
- Benoît Coeuré, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
- Andrew Coyne, Editor, Editorials and Comment, National Post
- Mikael L. Damberg, Minister for Enterprise and Innovation
- Karel De Gucht, Former EU Trade Commissioner, State Minister
- Thomas E. Donilon, Former U.S. National Security Advisor; Partner and Vice Chair, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
- Mathias Döpfner, CEO, Axel Springer SE
- Ann Dowling, President, Royal Academy of Engineering
- Regina Dugan, Vice President for Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects, Google
- Trine Eilertsen, Political Editor, Aftenposten
- Merete Eldrup, CEO, TV 2 Danmark A/S
- John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
- Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus Group
- Mary Erdoes, CEO, JP Morgan Asset Management
- Rona Fairhead, Chairman, BBC Trust
- Ulrik Federspiel, Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S
- Martin Feldstein, President Emeritus, NBER; Professor of Economics, Harvard University
- Heinz Fischer, Federal President
- Douglas Flint, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
- Christoph Franz, Chairman of the Board, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
- Louise Fresco, President and Chairman Executive Board, Wageningen University and Research Centre
- Kenneth Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel Investment Group, LLC
- Lilli Gruber, Executive Editor and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV
- Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po
- Gönenç Gürkaynak, Managing Partner, ELIG Law Firm
- Alfred Gusenbauer, Former Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
- Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University
- Erich Hampel, Chairman, UniCredit Bank Austria AG
- Demis Hassabis, Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind
- Wolfgang Hesoun, CEO, Siemens Austria
- Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman, BlackRock Inc.
- Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
- Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference
- Kenneth M. Jacobs, Chairman and CEO, Lazard
- Julia Jäkel, CEO, Gruner + Jahr
- James A. Johnson, Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
- Alain Juppé, Mayor of Bordeaux, Former Prime Minister
- Joe Kaeser, President and CEO, Siemens AG
- Alex Karp, CEO, Palantir Technologies
- Gilles Kepel, University Professor, Sciences Po
- John Kerr, Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power
- Ilhan Kesici, MP, Turkish Parliament
- Henry Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
- Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
- Klaas Knot, President, De Nederlandsche Bank
- Mustafa Vehbi Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
- Henry Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute
- André Kudelski, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
- Kurt Lauk, President, Globe Capital Partners
- Carola Lemne, CEO, The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
- Stuart Levey, Chief Legal Officer, HSBC Holdings plc
- Ursula von der Leyen, Minister of Defence
- Thomas Leysen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group
- Shiraz Maher, Senior Research Fellow, ICSR, King's College London
- Christina Markus Lassen, Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Policy and Stabilisation
- Jessica Mathews, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- James Mattis, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- Pierre Maudet, Vice-President of the State Council, Department of Security, Police and the Economy of Geneva
- David I. McKay, President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada
- Nuray Mert, Columnist, Professor of Political Science, Istanbul University
- Jim Messina, CEO, The Messina Group
- Charles Michel, Prime Minister
- John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
- Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
- Mario Monti, Senator-for-life; President, Bocconi University
- Leena Mörttinen, Executive Director, The Finnish Family Firms Association
- Craig Mundie, Principal, Mundie & Associates
- Heather Munroe-Blum, Chairperson, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
- Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Michael O'Leary, CEO, Ryanair Plc
- George Osborne, First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Soli Özel, Columnist, Haberturk Newspaper; Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University
- Dimitri Papalexopoulos, Group CEO, Titan Cement Co.
- Catherine Pégard, President, Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles
- Richard Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
- David Petraeus, Chairman, KKR Global Institute
- Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Honorary President of The Hellenic Council of State
- Heather Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
- Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group
- Gerhard Roiss, CEO, OMV Austria
- Robert Rubin, Co Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
- Mark Rutte, Prime Minister
- Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- John Sawers, Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
- Selin Sayek Böke, Vice President, Republican People’s Party
- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
- Rudolf Scholten, CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
- Karl Sevelda, CEO, Raiffeisen Bank International AG
- Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General, NATO
- Alexander Stubb, Minister of Finance
- Katrin Suder, Deputy Minister of Defense
- Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative; Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
- Carl-Henric Svanberg, Chairman, BP plc; Chairman, AB Volvo
- Olaug Svarva, CEO, The Government Pension Fund Norway
- Peter Thiel, President, Thiel Capital
- Loukas Tsoukalis, President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
- Ahmet Üzümcü, Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
- António M. Vitorino, Partner, Cuetrecasas, Concalves Pereira, RL
- Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB
- Vin Weber, Partner, Mercury LLC
- Martin H. Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
- James Wolfensohn, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company
- Robert Zoellick, Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group
References
- 1 2 "The Bilderberg Group - Press Release". Bilderberg Group. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ↑ "Großaufgebot für Konferenz und G7-Gipfel" (in German). ORF. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
- ↑ Charlie Skelton (10 June 2015). "Forget the G7 summit – Bilderberg is where the big guns go". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
- ↑ "The Bilderberg Group - Participants". The Bilderberg Group. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ↑ Justin Parkinson (10 June 2015). "Just who exactly is going to the Bilderberg meeting?". BBC News Online. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
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