Henri de Castries

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Person.png Henri de Castries  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook, businessman)
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BornHenri de Castries
1954-08-15
Bayonne, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materHEC Paris, ÉNA
ReligionCatholic
Children3
Spousemarried
Member ofBilderberg/Steering committee, Bosphorus Institute, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, French-American Foundation/Young Leaders/1994, French-American Foundation/Young Leaders/1998, German Council on Foreign Relations, HSBC, Institut Montaigne, Nestlé, Trilateral Commission

Employment.png CEO link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief executive officer

In office
2012 - Present
EmployerAXA
Preceded bySixten Korkman
In March 2016, it was announced that he would retire from both chairman and CEO roles at AXA on 1 September.

Henri de Castries is Chairman of the Bilderberg Steering Committee. He is often named as the "French President of Bilderberg" [1]

Castries is an extremely well connected French Businessman who got his start in politics as a member of the French Treasury in 1984. He is the Vice-Chairman of Nestle, the world's largest food company as well as a director at HSBC, the largest bank in Europe. He was the CEO of AXA from 2000 until 2016.

In September 2019, he became Chairman of European operations for the US venture capital firm General Atlantic.[2]


Deep Political connections

Leader of the Bilderberg/Steering committee since 2012.[3]

He is a founder of Institut Montaigne, a French think tank, through which he has spoken very highly of Emmanual Macron.[4]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200230 May 20022 June 2002US
Virginia
Chantilly
Westfields Marriott
The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
Bilderberg/200315 May 200318 May 2003France
Versailles
The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France
Bilderberg/20043 June 20046 June 2004Italy
Stresa
The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Bilderberg/20055 May 20058 May 2005Germany
Rottach-Egern
The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Bilderberg/20068 June 200611 June 2006Canada
Ottawa
54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests
Bilderberg/200731 May 20073 June 2007Turkey
Istanbul
The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Bilderberg/20085 June 20088 June 2008US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Bilderberg/200914 May 200917 May 2009Greece
Vouliagmeni
The 57th Bilderberg
Bilderberg/20103 June 20106 June 2010Spain
Hotel Dolce Sitges
Barcelona
The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.
Bilderberg/20119 June 201112 June 2011Switzerland
Hotel Suvretta
St. Moritz
59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests
Bilderberg/201231 May 20123 June 2012US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Bilderberg/20136 June 20139 June 2013Watford
UK
The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/201429 May 20141 June 2014Denmark
Copenhagen
Marriott Hotel
The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen
Bilderberg/201511 June 201514 June 2015Austria
Telfs-Buchen
The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
Bilderberg/20169 June 201612 June 2016Germany
Dresden
The 2016 Bilderberg meeting took place in Dresden, Germany.
Bilderberg/20187 June 201810 June 2018Italy
Turin
Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress
The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
Bilderberg/201930 May 20192 June 2019Switzerland
Montreux
The 67th Bilderberg Meeting
Bilderberg/202318 May 202321 May 2023Portugal
Lisbon
Pestana Palace Hotel
The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009.
Bilderberg/202430 May 20242 June 2024Spain
Madrid
The 70th Bilderberg Meeting
WEF/Annual Meeting/201717 January 201720 January 2017World Economic Forum
Switzerland
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