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The Bilderberg Group or Bilderberg conference is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media, and politics.
The elite group meets annually at luxury hotels or resorts throughout the world, normally in Europe, once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlandshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands. They met at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey for the June 2007 meeting. The 56th Bilderberg meeting took place June 6-8, 2008 at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia.
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Members of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia:
The elite group meets annually at luxury hotels or resorts throughout the world, normally in Europe, once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlandshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands. They met at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey for the June 2007 meeting. The 56th Bilderberg meeting took place June 6-8, 2008 at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia.
YouTube - CNN on the Bilderberg Group
YouTube - Secret Societies: The Bilderberg Group
Members of the 2008 Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia:
United States of America
Keith B. Alexander - US National Security Agency
Roger Altman - Investment Banker, Private Equity Investor, United States Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton
Thomas Daschle - Former US Senator/Senate Majority Leader
Harold Ford, Jr. - Current Chairman, Democratic Leadership Council, former US Congressman, Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Richard Holbrooke - Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Vernon Jordan, Jr. - Lawyer and business executive, served as a close adviser for Bill Clinton
Henry Kissinger - Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977
Henry Paulson Jr. - United States Secretary of the Treasury
Richard Perle - Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1981 - 1987
Condoleezza Rice - United States Secretary of State
David Rockefeller Sr. - American banker, statesman, globalist
Dennis Ross - Served as the director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H.W. Bush
Mark Sanford - Governor of South Carolina
Kathleen Sebelius - Governor of Kansas
George P. Shultz - Former United States Secretary of State, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Lawrence Summers - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Vin Weber - Former US Congressman
Paul Wolfowitz - Former President of the World Bank
Robert Zoellick - Former Deputy Secretary of State and current President of the World Bank
Canada
Frank McKenna - Former Canadian Ambassador to the United States, former Premier of New Brunswick, current Deputy Chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank
Heather Reisman - Canadian businesswoman
UK
John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard - Member of the House of Lords, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
Ireland
Paul Gallagher - Attorney General of Ireland
Germany
Joschka Fischer - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Germany)
Wolfgang Ischinger - Former German Ambassador to Washington
Volker Perthes - Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
France
Hubert Védrine - Former French Foreign Minister
Manuel Valls - French Member of Parliament
Jean-Pierre Jouyet - French Minister of European Affairs
Belgium
Prince Philippe - Duke of Brabant, Prince of Belgium
Netherlands
Jan Peter Balkenende - Current Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Willem-Alexander - Prince of Orange, Prince of Netherlands
Maxime Verhagen - Current Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
Frans Timmermans - Dutch Minister of European Affairs
Harold Goddijn - CEO of TomTom
Italy
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa - Former Italian Minister of Economy and Finance
Joaquín Almunia - European Commissioner for Economic & Financial Affairs
Matías Rodríguez Inciarte - Deputy CEO, Grupo Santander
Portugal
António Costa - Mayor of Lisbon
Rui Rio - Mayor of Porto
Greece
Georgios Alogoskoufis - Minister for Economy and Finance (Greece)
Anna Diamantopoulou - former Mayor of Piraeus
Turkey
Ali Babacan - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
Sweden
Carl Bildt - Former Prime Minister of Sweden and current Minister for Foreign Affairs
Maud Olofsson - Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
Denmark
Anders Eldrup - CEO, Danish Oil and Gas Corporation (DONG)
Flemming Rose - Danish journalist, author and the current cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten
Finland
Jorma Ollila - Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia Corporation
Czech Republic
Karel Schwarzenberg - Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Aleksander Kwaśniewski - Former President of Poland
Hungary
János Martonyi - Former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor of International Trade Law, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
EU Commissioners
Joaquín Almunia - European Commissioner for Economic & Financial Affairs
Étienne Davignon - Bilderberg conference chairman in 2005
Neelie Kroes - Commissioner for Competition
Charlie McCreevy - European Commissioner
UN, WTO, NATO and other International Organizations
Knut Vollebæk - OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - Secretary General of NATO
Financial Institutions
Josef Ackermann - CEO of Deutsche Bank
Ben Bernanke - Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Tim Collins - Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC
Mario Draghi - Governor of the Banca d'Italia
Timothy F. Geithner - President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Dermot Gleeson - Chairman of Allied Irish Banks
Kenneth Jacobs - Deputy Chairman, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
James A. Johnson - Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
Tom McKillop - Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Rudolf Scholten - CEO of Oesterreichische Kontrollbank
Jean-Claude Trichet - President of the European Central Bank
Jacob Wallenberg - Chairman of Investor AB, former Chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
James Wolfensohn - Former President of the World Bank Group
Major Corporations
Paul Desmarais, Jr. - Chairman and co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada
John Elkann - Vice chairman of Fiat and the Agnelli Group investment company IFIL
Klaus Kleinfeld - CEO of Siemens AG
Craig Mundie - Chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft
Egil Myklebust - Chairman of the Board of SAS Group
Eric E. Schmidt - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Google
Peter A. Thiel - Co-Founder, PayPal
Daniel Vasella - Chairman and CEO of Novartis
University, institute and other academic
Marie-Josée Kravis - Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Victor Halberstadt - Professor of Economics, Leiden University, Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings, Netherlands
Fouad Ajami - Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Barnett Rubin - Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation, New York University
Chester A. Crocker - James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies
Martha Farah - Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Roger Martin - Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Media
Oscar Bronner - Editor of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard
Donald E. Graham - Chairman of the Board of The Washington Post Company
Christine Ockrent - Former first anchor of the 8pm news on the Antenne 2 French TV channel
Journalists
Paul Gigot - Editor of the Editorial Page of The Wall Street Journal
Juan Luis Cebrián - Ex-director of El País Spanish daily newspaper and CEO of PRISA Group
Charlie Rose - American TV interviewer and journalist
Vendeline A. H. von Bredow - Business Correspondent for The Economist
Adrian D. Wooldridge - Foreign Correspondent for The Economist