Bilderberg/2017

 Bilderberg/2017 

Date	1 June 2017 - 4 June 2017
Location	Chantilly,  Virginia,  USA
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	Paul M. Achleitner, Andrew Adonis, Marcus Agius, Mustafa Akyol, Kjetil B. Alstadheim, Roger C. Altman, José Luis Arnaut, José M. Durão Barroso, Oliver Bäte, Werner Baumann, Nicolas Baverez, René Benko, Anne-Catherine Berner, Ana P. Botín, Svein Richard Brandtzæg, John O. Brennan, Frank Bsirske, Thomas Buberl, M. Elaine Bunn, William J. Burns, Levent Çakiroglu, Cansu Çamlibel, Juan Luis Cebrián, Kristin Clemet, David S. Cohen, Patrick Collison, Tom Cotton, Tiankai Cui, Mathias Döpfner, John Elkann, Thomas Enders, Ulrik Federspiel, Roger W. Ferguson, Niall Ferguson, Fabiola Gianotti, Sandro Gozi, Lindsey Graham, Evan G. Greenberg, Kenneth Griffin, Lilli Gruber, Luis de Guindos, Avril D. Haines, Victor Halberstadt, Ralph Hamers, Connie Hedegaard, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Mellody Hobson, Reid Hoffman, Nicholas Houghton, Wolfgang Ischinger, Kenneth M. Jacobs, James A. Johnson, Vernon E. Jordan, Alex Karp, Carsten Kengeter, Henry A. Kissinger, Susanne Klatten, Klaus Kleinfeld, Klaas H.W. Knot, Ömer M. Koç, Stephen Kotkin, Henry R. Kravis, Marie-Josée Kravis, André Kudelski, Christine Lagarde, François Lenglet, Thomas Leysen, Christopher Liddell, Annie Lööf, Jessica T. Mathews, Terence McAuliffe, David I. McKay, H.R. McMaster, John Micklethwait, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Maurizio Molinari, Lisa Monaco, Bill Morneau, Craig J. Mundie, Gene M. Murtagh, H.M. the King of the Netherlands, Peggy Noonan, Michael O’Leary, George Osborne, Alexis Papahelas, Dimitri Papalexopoulos, David H. Petraeus, Søren Pind, Benoît Puga, Gideon Rachman, Heather M. Reisman, Albert Rivera Díaz, Johanna Rosén, Wilbur L. Ross, David M. Rubenstein, Robert E. Rubin, Susanne Ruoff, Gwendolyn Rutten, Michael Sabia, John Sawers, Nadia Schadlow, Eric E. Schmidt, Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, Rudolf Scholten, Beppe Severgnini, Radoslaw Sikorski, Boyan Slat, Jens Spahn, Randall L. Stephenson, Andrew Stern, Jens Stoltenberg, Lawrence H. Summers, Bruno Tertrais, Peter Thiel, Jakob Haldor Topsøe, Sinan Ülgen, Björn Wahlroos, Marcus Wallenberg, Amy Walter, Galen G. Weston, Sharon White, Leon Wieseltier, Martin H. Wolf, James D. Wolfensohn, Pierre Wunsch, Gerhard Zeiler, Jeffrey D. Zients, Robert B. Zoellick
Type	meeting

The 2017 Bilderberg, the 65th meeting, took place from 1-4 June 2017 in Chantilly, Virginia, USA.

A video by James Corbett

Agenda

Topics discussed:

• The Trump Administration: A progress report
• Trans-Atlantic relations: options and scenarios
• The Trans-Atlantic defence alliance: bullets, bytes and bucks
• The direction of the EU
• Can globalisation be slowed down?
• Jobs, income and unrealised expectations
• The war on information
• Why is populism growing?
• Russia in the international order
• The Near East
• Nuclear proliferation
• China
• Current events

Participants

Chair: Castries, Henri de (FRA), President of Institut Montaigne; Former Chairman and CEO, AXA

• Achleitner, Paul M. (DEU), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG; Treasurer, Bilderberg Meeting
• Adonis, Andrew (GBR), Chair, National Infrastructure Commission
• Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting Group
• Akyol, Mustafa (TUR), Senior Visiting Fellow, Freedom Project at Wellesley College
• Alstadheim, Kjetil B. (NOR), Political Editor, Dagens Næringsliv
• Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chairman, Evercore
• Arnaut, José Luis (PRT), Managing Partner, CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut
• Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
• Bäte, Oliver (DEU), CEO, Allianz SE
• Baumann, Werner (DEU), Chairman, Bayer AG
• Baverez, Nicolas (FRA), Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
• Benko, René (AUT), Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board, SIGNA Holding GmbH
• Berner, Anne-Catherine (FIN), Minister of Transport and Communications
• Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
• Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
• Brennan, John O. (USA), Senior Advisor, Kissinger Associates Inc.
• Bsirske, Frank (DEU), Chairman, United Services Union
• Buberl, Thomas (FRA), CEO, AXA
• Bunn, M. Elaine (USA), Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Çakiroglu, Levent (TUR), CEO, Koç Holding A.S.
• Çamlibel, Cansu (TUR), Washington DC Bureau Chief, Hürriyet Newspaper
• Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, PRISA and El País
• Clemet, Kristin (NOR), CEO, Civita
• Cohen, David S. (USA), Former Deputy Director, CIA
• Collison, Patrick (USA), CEO, Stripe
• Cotton, Tom (USA), Senator
• Cui, Tiankai (CHN), Ambassador to the United States
• Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), CEO, Axel Springer SE
• Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
• Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus SE
• Federspiel, Ulrik (DNK), Group Executive, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S
• Ferguson,Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA
• Ferguson, Niall (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Gianotti, Fabiola (ITA), Director General, CERN
• Gozi, Sandro (ITA), State Secretary for European Affairs
• Graham, Lindsey (USA), Senator
• Greenberg, Evan G. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Chubb Group
• Griffin, Kenneth (USA), Founder and CEO, Citadel Investment Group, LLC
• Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor "Otto e mezzo", La7 TV
• Guindos, Luis de (ESP), Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
• Haines, Avril D. (USA), Former Deputy National Security Advisor
• Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University;
• Hamers, Ralph (NLD), Chairman, ING Group
• Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation
• Hennis-Plasschaert, Jeanine (NLD), Minister of Defence, The Netherlands
• Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investments LLC
• Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder, LinkedIn and Partner, Greylock
• Houghton, Nicholas (GBR), Former Chief of Defence
• Ischinger, Wolfgang (INT), Chairman, Munich Security Conference
• Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard
• Johnson, James A. (USA), Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners
• Jordan,Vernon E. (USA), Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
• Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies
• Kengeter, Carsten (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Börse AG
• Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.
• Klatten, Susanne (DEU), Managing Director, SKion GmbH
• Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), Former Chairman and CEO, Arconic
• Knot, Klaas H.W. (NLD), President, De Nederlandsche Bank
• Koç, Ömer M. (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
• Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Professor in History and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR
• Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; President, American Friends of Bilderberg
• Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group
• Lagarde, Christine (INT), Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Lenglet, François (FRA), Chief Economics Commentator, France 2
• Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group
• Liddell, Christopher (USA), Assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Initiatives
• Lööf, Annie (SWE), Party Leader, Centre Party
• Mathews, Jessica T. (USA), Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• McAuliffe, Terence (USA), Governor of Virginia
• McKay, David I. (CAN), President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada
• McMaster, H.R. (USA), National Security Advisor
• Micklethwait, John (INT), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP
• Minton Beddoes, Zanny (INT), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
• Molinari, Maurizio (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, La Stampa
• Monaco, Lisa (USA), Former Homeland Security Officer
• Morneau, Bill (CAN), Minister of Finance
• Mundie, Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie & Associates
• Murtagh, Gene M. (IRL), CEO, Kingspan Group plc
• Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD)
• Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
• O'Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair D.A.C.
• Osborne, George (GBR), Editor, London Evening Standard
• Papahelas, Alexis (GRC), Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper
• Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Co.
• Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute
• Pind, Søren (DNK), Minister for Higher Education and Science
• Puga, Benoît (FRA), Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor and Chancellor of the National Order of Merit
• Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times
• Reisman, Heather M. (CAN), Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
• Rivera Díaz, Albert (ESP), President, Ciudadanos Party
• Rosén, Johanna (SWE), Professor in Materials Physics, Linköping University
• Ross, Wilbur L. (USA), Secretary of Commerce
• Rubenstein, David M. (USA), Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
• Rubin, Robert E. (USA), Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations and Former Treasury Secretary
• Ruoff, Susanne (CHE), CEO, Swiss Post
• Rutten, Gwendolyn (BEL), Chair, Open VLD
• Sabia, Michael (CAN), CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
• Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners
• Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Deputy Assistant to the President, National Security Council
• Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chairman, Alphabet Inc.
• Schneider-Ammann, Johann N. (CHE), Federal Councillor, Swiss Confederation
• Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), President, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
• Severgnini, Beppe (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, 7-Corriere della Sera
• Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University
• Slat, Boyan (NLD), CEO and Founder, The Ocean Cleanup
• Spahn, Jens (DEU), Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal Ministry of Finance
• Stephenson, Randall L. (USA), Chairman and CEO, AT&T
• Stern, Andrew (USA), President Emeritus, SEIU and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project
• Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO
• Summers, Lawrence H. (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University
• Tertrais, Bruno (FRA), Deputy Director, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique
• Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital
• Topsøe, Jakob Haldor (DNK), Chairman, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S
• Ülgen, Sinan (TUR), Founding and Partner, Istanbul Economics
• Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation
• Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chairman, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB
• Walter, Amy (USA), Editor, The Cook Political Report
• Weston, Galen G. (CAN), CEO and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd and George Weston Companies
• White, Sharon (GBR), Chief Executive, Ofcom
• Wieseltier, Leon (USA), Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy, The Brookings Institution
• Wolf, Martin H. (INT), Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
• Wolfensohn, James D. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn & Company
• Wunsch, Pierre (BEL), Vice-Governor, National Bank of Belgium
• Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Turner International
• Zients, Jeffrey D. (USA), Former Director, National Economic Council
• Zoellick, Robert B. (USA), Non-Executive Chairman, AllianceBernstein L.P.