Munich Security Conference/2018

 Munich Security Conference/2018(Munich Security Conference/Meeting)

Date	12 February 2018 - 14 February 2018
Location	Munich,  Bavaria,  Germany
Participants	Erlan Adbyldaev, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, Paul Achleitner, Ibrahim Ahmed Abdelaziz Ghandour, Ilse Aigner, Nasr Al Hariri, Kalid bin Ali Al Humaidan, Talal Abdullah Al Otaibi, Raed Al Saleh, Haider Al-Abadi, Mohammed Maahfoodh Alardi, Angeino Alfano, Falih Al-Fayyadh, Erfan Al-Heilali, Jasim Al-Jaf, Ilham Aliev, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, John R. Allen, Graham Allison, Abdulmalik Al-Mekhalafi, Khalid Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Alejandro Enrique Alvargonzalez San Martin, Hajj Ahmad Amirinia, Youssef Amrani, Hubertus Andra, Kai Christian Andrejeweski, Steve Angel, Christian Angermeyer, Saleh Mahamat Annadif, Kofi Annan, Niels Annen, Jaber Ansari, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Elhadj As Sy, Catherine Ashton, Khawaja Muhammed Asif, Kelly Ayotte, Stephanie Babst, Lars Christian Bacher, Annalena Baerbeck, Thomas Bagger, Tariq Shh Bahramee, Qamar Javed Bajwa, Frank Bakke-Jensen, Michel Barnier, Mamadou Alpha Barry, Hans-Peter Bartels, Masrour Barzani, Nechirvan Idris Barzani, Oliver Bäte, David Beasley, Pierre Bechara Rai, Thomas Becker, Kai Beckmann, Christoph Beier, Aldo Belloni, Felix Benecke, Michael Bennet, Fatou Bensouda, Roland Berger, Ronen Bergman, Raimonds Bergmanis, Ralfe Beste, Joseph Biden, Elzbieta Bienkowska, Laurent Bigorgne, Ank Bijleveld, Carl Bildt, Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, James Bindenagel, Manfred Bischoff, Mariusz Blaszczak, Koyko Borissov, Predrag Boskovic, Philippe Bottrie, Lakhdar Brahimi, Christoph Brand, Jacques E. Brand, Reinhard Brandl, Ralf Brauksiepe, Harald Braun, Sandra Breka, Ian Bremmer, Børge Brende, Carsten Breuer, Klaus Brinkbaumer, Anette Bronder, Desmond Browne, Christian Bruch, Agnieska Brugger, Karl-Heinz Brunner, Wolfgang Büchele, Erhard Buhler, Jurg Siegrfried Buhler, R. Nicholas Burns, William J. Burns, Alistair Burt, Richard Burt, Roland Busch, Ditmir Bushati, Reinhardt Butikopfer, Per Micael Byden, Walter Menzies Campbell of Pittenweem, Nurettin Canikli, Joaquin Castro, Christopher G. Cavoli, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Kuol Manyang Juuk Chaw, Smail Chergui, Michael Chertoff, John Chipman, Mi-ae Choo, Dan Coats, Eliot Cohen, Jared Cohen, Joseph M. Cohen, William S. Cohen, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Jutta Cordt, Tieman Hubert Coulibaly, Melinda Crane-Rohrs, John Crocker, Ivo Daalder, Arnaud Danjean, Srdan Darmanovic, Alfonso Maria Dastis, Christopher J. Davis, James W. Davis, Thomas de Maziere, Andreas Delp, Ulrike Demmer, Taban Deng Gai, Oleg Deripaska, Nikola Dimitrov, Lothar Dittmer, Bijan Djir-Sarai, Kiril Dmitriev, Alexander Dobrindt, Jorge Domecq, Karen Donfriend, Helmut Dotzler, Lyse Doucet, Daniel W. Drezner, Robert Dussey, Alexandr Dynkin, Espen Barth Eide, Nabil El Araby, Ibrahim Elazaby, Jan Eliasson, Stijn van Els, John Emerson, Bernard Emie, Henrik Enderlein, Thomas Enders, Ine Eriksen Søreide, Steven Erlanger, Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Bernd Hugo Eulitz, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Joachim Faber, Moussa Faki Mahamat, Evelyn Nicolette Farkas, Charles Farr, Franz Fehrenbach, Fritz Felgentreu, Jeffrey Feltman, Markus Ferber, Mihai-Viorel Fifor, Beatrice Fihn, Pavel Filip, Wolfgang Fink, Ulrich Finkenbusch, Marc S. Firestone, Patricia Flor, Michael Flugger, Richard Fontaine, John Frank, Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, Chrystia Freeland, Thortsen Frei, Werner Freers, Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, Dagmar Freitag, Arndt Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven, Aurelia Frick, Rudiger Freiherr von Fritsch, Anton Friesen, Klaus-Dieter Fritsche, Fu Ying, Hubertus Furst Fugger von Babenhausen, Shafik Gabr, Sigmar Gabriel, Michael Gahler, Peter Gajdos, Paul Richard Gallagher, Detlev Ganten, Kristialina Georgieva, Geza Andreas von Geyr, Amos Gilead, Alvise Giustiani, Pinchas Goldschmidt, Katrin Goring-Eckardt, Rose Gottemoeller, Thomas Gottschild, Lindsey Graham, Camille Grand, Charles Grant, Mark Green, Herman Gref, Vartan Gregorian, Thomas Greminger, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, Jurgen Grossman, Markus Grubel, Jean-Marie Guehenno, Eric Gujer, Claus Gunther, Antoni Guterres, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Emily Haber, Dina Habib Powell, Gabriela von Habsburg, Florian Hahn, Johannes Hahn, Jan Hamáček, Daniel Hamilton, Heike Hansel, Jurgen Hardt, John D. Harris, Frank Haun, Gerd Hausler, Jan Hecker, Stephan B. Heintz, Francois Heisbourg, Stephan Heissner, Robert Helm, Joachim Herrmann, Christoph Heusgen, Marillyn Hewson, Fiona Hill, Krin von Hippel, Frederick Hodges, Anton Hofreiter, Dirk Hoke, Jonathan Hoyle, Marcel Huber, Peter C. Hughes, Peter Hultqvist, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Johannes Huth, Tacan Ildem, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Michael J. Inacker, Wolfgang Ischinger, Darrell Issa, Igor S. Ivanov, Levan Izoria, Bruce P. Jackson, Atifete Jahjaga, Mikheil Janelidze, Jackson Janes, Natalie Jaresko, Khemaies Jhinaoui, Josef Joffe, Mikael Johansson, Ron Johnson, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, James L. Jones, Birgitta Jonsdottir, Robert Joyce, Jean-Claude Juncker, Franz Josef Jung, Peter Jungen, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, Joe Kaeser, Paul Kagame, Robert Kagan, Bruno Kahl, Karl Kaiser, Kersti Kaljulaid, Bartholomaus Kalb, Gernot Kalkoffen, Paul-Bernhard Kallen, Panos Kammenos, Karl-Heinz Kamp, Sergi Kapanadze, Sergey A. Karaganov, Krasimir Karakachanov, Tawakkol Karman, Raimundas Karoblis, Alex Karp, Eugene Kaspersky, Andreja Katic, Sylvie Kaufmann, Thomas Howard Kean, Michael Keating, Frederick Kempe, Dieter Kempf, Gilles de Kerchove d'Ousselghem, John Kerr, John Kerry, Gleb Khor, Roderich Kiesewetter, Thomas H. Killion, Jim Yong Kim, Robert Kimmitt, Julian King, Sergey Kislyak, Shigeru Kitamura, Eckart von Klaeden, Jan Klatten, Achim Klein, Michael Kleinemeier, Pavlo Klimkin, Lars Klingbeil, Vitali Klychko, Jurgen Knappe, John Khight, Charlotte Knobloch, David Knower, Andriy Kobolyev, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Horst Kohler, Taro Kono, Wolfgang Kopf, Ivan Korčok, Stefan Kornelius, Andrei V. Kortunov, Konstantin Kosachev, Mikhail Kostarakos, Georgios Koumoutsakos, Pierre Krahenbuhl, Ivan Krastev, Andreas Krause, Thomas Kremer, Gunther Krichbaum, Annette Kroeber-Riel, Damir Krsticevic, Harald Kruger, Fred Krupp, Andre Kudelski, Charles A. Kuchan, Sebastian Kurz, Giorgi Kvirikashviki, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Christine Lagarde, Miroslav Lajcak, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Karl Lamers, Mark Lancaster, Joachim Lang, Angus Lapsley, Armin Laschet, Ronald S. Lauder, Kurt J. Lauk, Sergey V. Lavrov, Ludwig Leinhos, Rene Leitgen, Mark Leonard, Julian Lewis, Joseph Liebermann, Stefan Liebich, Arne Lietz, Peter Limbourg, Rainer Lindner, Tobias Lindner, Walter Johannes Lindner, Gustav Lindstrom, Michael Georg Link, Joanne Liu, Tzipi Livni, Clare Lockhart, Kent D. Logsdon, Edward Lucas, Hans-Dieter Lucas, Rudiger Lucassen, Juri Luik, Jane Holl Lute, Hans-Georg Maassen, Sarah MacIntosh, Stefan Mair, Vladimir Makei, Elmar Maharram oglu Mammadyarov, Alberto Manenti, Klaus Mangold, Daniel Markic, Christoph von Marschall, Kiberley Marteau Emerson, Reinhard Marx, Georg Mascolo, Frank Mastiaux, Frank Mattern, James N. Mattis, Thomas Matussek, Peter Maurer, Theresa May, Stephan Mayer, John McCain, Bruce McConnell, Michael McFaul, Herbert Raymond McMaster, Robert Menasse, Beate Merk, Jeff Merkley, Jeanne Meserve, Andreas Michaelis, Sven Mikser, David Miliband, Antonio Missiroli, Staffan de Mistura, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Michael Moller, Babagana Monguno, Ernest J. Moniz, Thierry de Montbrial, Mateusz Morawiecki, Alexej Mordashov, Alexis Morel, Jennifer Morgan, J. Stephen Morrison, Elisabeth Motschmann, Naveed Mukthar, Gerd Muller, Klaus-Peter Muller, Nora Muller, Thomas Müller, Cameron Munter, Louise Mushikiwabo, Rolf Mutzenich, Edward Nalbandian, Vali Nasr, Matthias Nass, Elshad Nassirov, Mustafa Nayyem, Sergey J. Nechayev, Benjamin Netanyahu, Alexander Neu, Peter Neumann, Jan Neutze, Ng Eng Hen, Frankie Ng, Robin Niblett, Andreas Nick, Nielson Manfred, Jussi Niinisto, Sauli Niinisto, Nikolay Nikiforov, Christian Nitsche, Omid Nouripour, Victoria Nuland, Samuel Nunn, Joseph Nzabamwita, Arend Oetker, Albrecht Furst zu Oettingfen-Spielberg, Gunther H. Oettinger, Christian Ollig, Stefan Oschmann, Henning Otte, Gerold Otten, Cem Ozdemir, Behgjet Pacolli, Christopher Painter, Ana Isabel de Palacio, Zohar Palti, Roland Paris, Florence Parly, Guy Parmelin, Thomas Paulsen, Petr Pavel, Marjia Pejcinovic Buric, Noam Perski, David H. Petraeus, Joachim Pfeiffer, Friedbert Pfluger, Edouard Philippe, Karen Pierce, Victor Pinchuk, Reinhard Ploss, Mike Pompeo, Petro Poroshenko, Wolfgang Porsche, Achim Post, Charles Powell, Detlef Prinz, Esa Pulkkinen, Pushkov Aleksey, Mohammad Qayoumi, Bruno Racine, Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Julian Reichelt, Janusz Reiter, Wolfgang Reitzle, Martin Richenhagen, Thomas Rid, Peter Riedel, Edgars Rinkevics, James E. Risch, Nicolas de Riviere, Harry Roegner, Joachim Rogall, Joan Rohlfing, Klaus Rosenfeld, Philipp Rosler, Claudia Roth, Kenneth Roth, Norbert Rottgen, Laura Rudas, Kevin Rudd, Joachim Rühle, Mark Rutte, Harjit Singh Sajjan, Peter Salama, Ghassan Salame, Anders Samuelsen, David E. Sanger, Felix Sanz Roldan, Serzh Sargsyan, Yacoub Riad Sarraf, Benjamin Sasse, John Sawers, Curtis M. Scaparrotti, John Scarlett, Marietje Schaake, Michael Schaefer, Georg F. W. Schaeffler, Herbert J. Scheidt, Gundbert Scherf, Andreas Scheuer, Adam Schiff, Helga Maria Schmid, Christian Schmidt, Eric Schmidt, Sven Schneider, Maximilian Schoberl, Arne Schonbohm, Mariel von Schumann, Wolfgang Schussel, Karel Furst zu Schwarzenberg, Daniela Schwarzer, Klaus Schweinsberg, Horst Seehofer, Radmila Sekerinska, Leif Johan Sevland, Parviz Ogtay Shahbazov, Jeanne Shahenn, Wendy Sherman, Salil Shetty, Alexander N. Shokhin, Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, Radoslaw Sikorski, Thomas Silberhorn, Brendan Simms, Jennifer Allen Simons, Wolff van Sintern, Karla Slechtova, Sven Smit, Brad Smith, Dan Smith, Julianne Smith, Markus Soder, Steven E. Sokol, Javier Solana, Erik Solheim, Theo Sommer, Sophia (The Robot), George Soros, Suleyman Soylu, Jens Spahn, John Francis Spellar, Alex Stamos, Brad Staples, Zeno Staub, Rudolph Staudigl, James Stavridis, Achim Steiner, Stephan Steinlein, Constanze Stelzenmuller, Angela Stent, Philip Stephens, Edmund Stoiber, Jens Soltenberg, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Robert L. Strayer, Ruediger Stroh, Martin Stropnicky, Katrin Suder, John Sullivan, Mark Suzman, Moumina Cherif Sy, Hiroaki Takizawa, Serhiy Taruta, Ellen O. Tauscher, Julie Linn Teigland, Horst Teltschik, Riho Terras, Alexey Texler, Johannes Teyssen, Hashim Thaci, Elmar Theveßen, Peter Thiel, Laura Thompson, Adam Thomson, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Teija Tiilikainen, Frans Timmermans, Eka Tkeshelashvili, Nathalie Tocci, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Dmitri Trenin, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Thomas Tschersich, Thomas Georg John Tugendhat, Michael Turner, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, U Thaung Tun, Henrik Urdal, Alon Ushpiz, Ahmet Uzumcu, Alexander Vershbow, Melanne Verveer, David Vigneault, Kurt Volker, Jorg Vollmer, Ursula von der Leyen, Peter-Alexander Wacker, Johann Wadephul, Rob Wainwright, Georg Graf Waldersee, Thomas D. Waldhauser, Kent Walker, Celeste A. Wallander, Hans Wallmark, Christoph Walther, Matthias Warnig, Peter Watkins, Manfred Weber, Klaus Wehmeier, Kenneth Weinstein, Frank-Jurgen Weise, Joachim Wenning, Kathryn L. Wheelbarger, Sheldon Whitehouse, Volker Wieker, Hans Werner Wiermann, Ulrich Wilhelm, Holger Wilkens, Joe Wilson, Ralph Wintergerst, Frank Wisner II, Peter Wittig, Siegfried Wolf, Thomas Wright, Andre Wustner, Amos Yadlin, Shingo Yamagami, Binali Yildirim, Alex Younger, Igor Yurgens, Matthias Zachert, Svitlana Zalishchuk, Mohamad Javad Zarif, Ernesto Zedillo, Lassina Zerbo, Martin Zielke, Robert Zoellick, Denis Zvizdić
Website	https://securityconference.org/en/msc-2018/
Abbreviation	MSC/2018
Description	The 54th Munich Security Conference

The 54^th Munich Security Conference took place from 15-18 February 2018.

Agenda

15 February 2018

• 16:00-18:00 Town Hall Meeting

16 February 2018

• 8:30am Cybersecurity Roundtable

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17 February 2018

• 7:45am Breakfast Meetings

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18 February 2018

• 7:45am Breakfast Meetings
• 9:00 Congressional Debate - US Foreign Policy Michael Turner, Jeanne Shaheen, James Risch, Sheldon Whitehouse, Moderator: Victoria Nuland
• 9:00 Human Securtity Roundtable - (Off the record, by special invitation only)
• 10:00 Statement + Q & A - Benjamin Netanyahu Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger
• 10:20 Coffee Break
• 10:45 Panel Discussion Widening Gulf - Mevlut Cavusoglu, Yacoub Riad Saraf, Amhad Aboul-Gheit, John Kerry, Aleksey Pushkov, Staffan de Mistura, Moderator: Lyse Doucet
• 12:35 Break
• 12:40 Statement + Q & A - Adel din Ahmed Al-Jubeir Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger
• 13:00 Closing Remarks - Wolfgang Ischinger
• 13:15 Concluding Lunch What Have We Missed? - (Off the record, for participants only) Graham Allison, Dmitri Trenin, Nathalie Tocie, Moderator: Ian Bremmer

 

Known Participants

197 of the 673 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Paul Achleitner	Austrian banker businessman with deep state connections.
John Allen	A Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General
Graham Allison	Attended the Bilderberg in 2007 after a 33 year break. First attended, as a speaker, in 1970, aged 30. Multiple deep state connections.
Kofi Annan	Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997-2006 now working for Macro Advisory Partners
Catherine Ashton	A woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair
Kelly Ayotte	US lawyer and politician, Attorney General of New Hampshire 2004-2009
Hans-Peter Bartels	German SPD politician, regular at the MSC
Michael Bennet	Candidate in the 2020 US presidential election. Son of Douglas J. Bennet, a Bilderberger and suspected spook.
Fatou Bensouda	Attended at least 7 Munich Security Conferences as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Roland Berger	German entrepreneur and possible deep state actor
Ronen Bergman	Israeli journalist who published Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel’s targeted killings - in reality a very flattering limited hangout.
Joe Biden	US deep state actor accused of sexual assault in 1993. As US Senator aggressively pushed for the patriot act, mass surveillance and death penalty for anyone who was not CIA. As VP famous for sniffing and grabbing children on camera. Became US President in a quite weakened mental state.
Laurent Bigorgne	French deep state operative. Attended the 2015 Bilderberg
Ank Bijleveld	Dutch Defence Minister. Tried to cover-up 2015 Hawija bombing. Warned for attacks with bioweapons in 2018.
Carl Bildt	Swedish deep politician, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Sitting on an impressive number of deep state related commissions.
James Bindenagel	US Chargé d'affaires to Germany from 1996 to 1997,
Manfred Bischoff	MSC regular
Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager	Connected to the Knights of Malta 2016/17 constitutional crisis, suspended on a "precautionary" basis by Matthew Festing in December 2016.
Ian Bremmer	President and founder of the Eurasia Group. Heavy MSC habit, CFR, TLC, YGL 2007, Bilderberg 2007
Børge Brende	Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017-
Carsten Breuer	Attended at least 5 Munich Security Conferences since 2018
Des Browne	Bought nuclear missiles as UK Secretary of State for Defence, campaigns for nuclear disarmament after leaving power.
R. Nicholas Burns	US Ambassador to NATO 2001-2005, plenty of other deep state connected roles
William Burns	Poly Bilderberger US diplomat, US/Deputy Secretary of State
Alistair Burt	UK politician with deep state connections
Richard Burt	US Deep state operative who took part in the discussion about "terrorism" at the 1986 Bilderberg. Founded Diligence
Oliver Bäte	German businessman with supranational deep state connections
Christopher Cavoli	Spooky US general and Supreme Allied Commander Europe since July 2022. His career shows an extensive specialization towards Russia. Attended 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Michael Chertoff	A long-standing US Republican Party apparatchik and dual US/Israeli citizen who has held senior US legal and national security positions.
Eliot Cohen	Spooky academic labelled "the most influential neocon in academe"
Jared Cohen	CEO of Jigsaw, CFR, Bilderberg, who "grew up watching [GHWB]'s example & I was honored to get to know him in his later years."
William Cohen	United States Secretary of Defense 1997-2001, various deep state connections
Ivo Daalder	USDSO who co-authored Protecting the American Homeland - A Preliminary Analysis, a book published in 2002 by the Brookings Institution about 9/11
Oleg Deripaska	Russian billionaire, WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow
Lyse Doucet	Canadian journalist, Chatham House, heavy MSC habit
Espen Barth Eide	Attended the 2013 Bilderberg as Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jan Eliasson	Swedish diplomat
Tom Enders	Atlantik-Brücke, American Council on Germany/Young Leaders, Bilderberg/Steering committee, Munich Security Conference/Advisory Council ...
Steven Erlanger	Deep state connected New York Times journalist. Ditchley Governor, Regular at the MSC and the Brussels Forum
Evelyn Farkas	Integrity Initiative's US cluster
Charles Farr	Spooky UK civil servant, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee until his 2019 death
Jeffrey Feltman	US deep state diplomat who has led colour revolutions
Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger	Transatlantic German editor
Chrystia Freeland	"A bit of a living parody of everything wrong with the detached technocratic neoliberal order"
Fu Ying	Double Bilderberger Chinese ambassador to the UK. MSC regular.
Sigmar Gabriel	German deep state operative, Atlantik-Brücke Chairman since 2019
Géza Andreas von Geyr	German diplomat with heavy MSC habit
Lindsey Graham	US/Senate/Committee on the Judiciary/Chair, double Bilderberg
Herman Gref	Russian banker/politician. World Economic Forum’s board of trustees. Played a prominent role in the development and production of the Sputnik V vaccine.
Eric Gujer	Spooky Swiss editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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