Bilderberg/2017

 Bilderberg/2017

Date	1 June 2017 - 4 June 2017
Location	Chantilly,  Virginia,  USA
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
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, Jr., 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, Jr., 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.