Bilderberg/2003

 Bilderberg/2003(meeting)

Date	15 May 2003 - 18 May 2003
Location	Versailles,  France
Participants	Étienne Davignon, J. Martin Taylor, Alexandre Adler, Alfredo Ambrosetti, Ali Babacan, Dora Bakoyannis, Edward Balls, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, José M. Durão Barroso, Mehmet A. Bayar, Erich Becker, Rodolfo de Bendetti, Franco Bernabe, Nicolas Beytout, Ahmad E. Bishara, Conrad Black, Frits Bolkestein, John R. Bolton, Michel Bon, Jean-Louis Bruguière, Hubert Burda, Philippe Camus, Anthony J. Cary, Henri de Castries, Juan Luis Cebrian, Willy Claes, Kenneth Clarke, Timothy C. Collins, Bertrand Collomb, Jean-François Copé, Jon S. Corzine, Claes Dahlbäck, George A. David, Thomas E. Donilon, Mario Draghi, Anders Eldrup, Martin S. Feldstein, Anthony S. Fell, Thomas L. Friedman, Jean-Louis Gergorin, Paul A. Gigot, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Svein Gjedrem, Dermot Gleeson, Philip Gould, Richard N. Haass, Victor Halberstadt, Stephen Harper, Roger Hertog, Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer, Allan B. Hubbard, R. Glenn Hubbard, James A. Johnson, Vernon E. Jordan, Walter B. Kielholz, Mervyn A. King, Henry Kissinger, Olli Kivinen, Wim Kok, Hilmar Kopper, Henry R. Kravis, Marie-Josée Kravis, Pascal Lamy, Pierre Lellouche, André Levy-Lang, Anna Lindh, Paavo Lipponen, Mogens Lykketoft, Margaret O. MacMillan, Mikhail V. Margelov, Thierry de Montbrial, Mario Monti, Craig J. Mundie, Egil Myklebust, Matthias Naß, Beatrix Armgard, Andrzej Olechowski, Jorma Ollila, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Marco Panara, Corrado Passera, George Perkovich, Richard Perle, H.R.H. Prince Philippe, Roberto Poli, Denis Ranque, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Heather Reisman, Franck Riboud, Michael Ringier, David Rockefeller, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Olivier Roy, John Ruggie, Anthony Ruys, Özdem Sanberk, Paolo Scaroni, Wolfgang Schäuble, Otto Schily, Rudolf Scholten, Jürgen E. Schrempp, Klaus Schwab, Toger Seidenfaden, Lilia Shevtsova, Queen Sofía of Spain, James B. Steinberg, Mark Steyn, Peter D. Sutherland, John L. Thornton, Jean Claude Trichet, Loukas Tsoukalis, Gertrude Trumpel-Gugerell, Daniel L. Vasella, Jeroen van der Veer, Philippe Villin, Klaas de Vries, Björn Wahlroos, Jacob Wallenberg, Gareth Williams (politician), Martin H. Wolf, James D. Wolfensohn, Paul Wolfowitz, Fareed Zakaria, Robert Zoellick, Klaus Zumwinkel
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Witnessed by	John Micklethwait, Gideon Rachman

The 2003 Bilderberg Meeting was the 51st such meeting and had participants from European countries, the United States and Canada. It was held at Versailles, France. The 126 guests included 42 business executives, 33 politicians, 14 financiers, 12 editors/journalists and 9 academics. Exceptionally, guests included Ahmad Bishara, a Kuwaiti.

Agenda

The 2003 Bilderberg Agenda has not been leaked, but the website at Bilderberg Meetings has posted an agenda.

Unexpected deaths of attendees

The meeting was attended by Gareth Williams then Leader of the House of Lords, who on 13 June became also Lord President of the Council. Williams suddenly died at his home in Gloucestershire on 20 September, aged 62. It was his second Bilderberg (he also attended in 2002).

 

Participants

Participant	Description
Alexandre Adler
Alfredo Ambrosetti	6 times Bilderberg visitor Italian businessman
Beatrix Armgard	Queen Beatrix. Kicked a very heavy Bilderberg habit in 2015.
Ali Babacan	8 times Bilderberg visitor, Turkish politician
Dora Bakoyannis
Ed Balls
Francisco Pinto Balsemão	>30 Bilderbergs, Bilderberg Steering committee, Prime Minister of Portugal
Mehmet Bayar
Erich Becker
Rodolfo de Bendetti
Franco Bernabè	Italian banker and manager, Steering Committee of the Bilderberg
Nicolas Beytout	Quad Bilderberg French editor/journalist
Ahmad Bishara	A Bilderberger from the Middle East!
Conrad Black	Fraudulent Bilderberg steering committee member
Frits Bolkestein	Quad Bilderberger Dutch Defence minister
John R. Bolton
Michel Bon
Jean-Louis Bruguière
Hubert Burda	Multi-billionaire publisher. 7 Bilderbergs
Philippe Camus
Anthony Cary
Henri de Castries	"French President of Bilderberg"
Juan Luis Cebrián	Spanish media mogul with a heavy Bilderberg habit.
Willy Claes	Bilderberger, fraudster, ex Secretary General of NATO.
Kenneth Clarke	Bilderberg Steering committee, The Other Club, UK politician
Timothy Collins	UK soldier, multi-Bilderberg
Bertrand Collomb	Connected French businessman. 13 Bilderbergs.
Jean-François Copé
Jon Corzine	6 times Bilderberger financier
Claes Dahlbäck
George David	Greek Cypriot entrepreneur, Bilderberg Steering committee.
Étienne Davignon	Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president
Tom Donilon	Spooky Bilderberger
Mario Draghi	Bilderberg bankster and "craven moneyman"
Anders Eldrup	Danish member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.
Martin Feldstein	US economist, Trilateral Commission, heavy Bilderberg habit towards the end of his life.
Anthony Fell
Thomas Friedman
Jean-Louis Gergorin
Paul Gigot
Valery Giscard d'Estaing	President of France, Bilderberg
Svein Gjedrem
Dermot Gleeson	Attorney General of Ireland, 8 time visitor to the Bilderberg
Philip Gould
Richard Haass	Bilderberger, CFR President
Victor Halberstadt	A professor of economics, with a minimal Wikipedia page, who has attended all Bilderberg meetings since 1975.
Stephen Harper
Roger Hertog
Allan B. Hubbard	Former Bilderberg Steering committee, Director of the National Economic Council
Glenn Hubbard	Single Bilderberger
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Witnesses

Witness	Description
John Micklethwait	Editor of The Economist for 9 years
Gideon Rachman