Democracy and Culture Foundation

Democracy and Culture Foundation (Astroturf, NGO)
Formation	February 2019
Headquarters	London, UK, Athens, Greece
Leader	Achilles Tsaltas
Sponsored by	Amazon, Berggruen Institute, Bertelsmann Foundation, Ericsson, Facebook, Luminate, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft
Membership	•  Kim Conniff Taber •  Paul Goguel Masson •  Dimitra Kapetanaki •  Nikol Karali •  Elina Makri •  Tullia Vitturi di Este-Lochra •  Myrto Xanthopoulou •  Irina Bokova •  Anthony Kefalas •  Stephen Dunbar-Johnson •  Nanna-Louise Linde •  Yves Mathieu •  Mete Coban •  Corinne Momal-Vanian •  Dawn Nakagawa •  Marina Papatsoni •  Alexander Rhodes •  Adama Sanneh •  George Tsopelas •  Jon Alexander •  Yorgos Archimandritis •  Nicolas Berggruen •  Ouided Bouchamaoui •  Laura Chinchilla •  Achilles Constantakopoulos •  Brunello Cucinelli •  Kristen Davis •  Ibijoke Faborode •  Nathan Gardels •  Basil Gavalas •  Yannis Harizopoulos •  Chaker Khazaal •  Nathan Law •  Bernard-Henri Lévy •  Eric X Li •  Maria Logotheti •  Kishore Mahbubani •  Kabelo Mahlobogwane •  Alexia Papageorgiou •  George Papandreou •  Ines Saltiel •  Maria Schmidt •  Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani •  Mark Thompson •  Andrea Venzon •  Ai Weiwei •  Itzik Yahav •  Fatima Zaman
Using strategies designed by McKinsey to "improve" democratic processes against "populism"

The Democracy and Culture Foundation is a London-based NGO that "following the dual assaults by the pandemic and populism" seeks to "drive the evolution of democracy".

Own words

The Foundation identifies new ways to improve democratic processes and the role of culture in allowing it to flourish. We achieve our objectives through this impact chain:

• Conceive new ideas and innovative concepts to produce policy proposals for reform
• Engage in constructive dialogue to turn proposals into structured policies
• Use grassroots movements and organizations to persuade decision-makers to implement policies [i.e. astroturf]

Its strategy is designed by McKinsey. It works with the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican

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People

Board, team, leadership council as of January 2025.

Sponsors

Sponsors and partners as of January 2025.

 

Known members

5 of the 48 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Nicolas Berggruen	Sponsor of influential think-tanks
Irina Bokova
Bernard-Henri Lévy	A French 'philosopher' who has created an intellectual alibi for every US/NATO intervention since the 1980s. Lévy is also a militant supporter and apologist for Zionism and the Israeli state.
George Papandreou	Quad Bilderberg Greek politician long time President of the Socialist International
Mark Thompson	Former acting SFO director

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
Amazon	A monopoly/cartel online retailer with deep state connections.
Berggruen Institute	The think tank paid for by the billionaire Nicolas Berggruen, who has big ambitions for transforming the world.
Bertelsmann Foundation
Ericsson	large Swedish multinational in the Wallenberg sphere
Facebook	The world's most popular social network, with over 1,000,000,000 users in 2014.
Luminate	Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies.
McKinsey & Company	corporate hit-men to loot the economy
Microsoft	Started in 1975 with Paul Allen, Bill Gates developed Microsoft from a operating system maker of computers into one of the most prolific companies of all time, valued over $1 trillion, 3rd most valuable in the world. MS has over a billion in fines from corruption, mass surveillance violations & tax evasion. MS has market shares in dozens of markets, leading in the Platformization-epidemic of the 2010s started by big tech. It was the first partner in the NSA-PRISM program.

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