Bilderberg/2020

 Bilderberg/2020(Bilderberg/Meeting)

Date	June 2020
Perpetrators	Bilderberg/Steering committee
Description	The 2020 Bilderberg is reported not to have taken place. This page highlights the invlovement of numerous Bilderbergers in the COVID-19 event.

The 2020 Bilderberg Meeting was planned to be the 68^th Bilderberg meeting and expected to have participants from around 20 European countries, the United States, Canada and possibly one or two other nations such as China. The Steering committee reportedly postponed it due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dates

Bilderberg 2020 was presumably scheduled, like all Bilderberg meetings for the last decade, to begin and end in June. However, after the COVID-19 pandemic, their official website reported as of April 2020 that "in line with worldwide travel constraints and prevention efforts the Meeting 2020 has been postponed".

Cancelled?

If the event were actually cancelled due to COVID-19, this would be only its second ever cancellation. The only precedent was the decision to cancel the Bilderberg in 1976 to minimise the risks of exposure after the Lockheed/Bribery scandals had drawn unwanted attention to Prince Bernhard.

Tony Gosling was skeptical in August 2020 that it had in fact been cancelled, suggesting that the announcement of its cancellation may have been a ruse to distract from the increasing public profile of the group. He suggested that the steering committee may have met in June, with a focus on COVID-19.

COVID-19

Many of those listed below are also on the list of COVID-19 WEF perpetrators

Over 10% of the 1827 Bilderbergers alive in the 2020s played important roles in the COVID-19 event. Many, perhaps most, of the below played various roles; this page attempts to list them under their most important. Steering committee members (both present and former) are underlined.

Bilderbergers have taken part in "pandemic planning" exercises and many were active in early 2020, promoting fear and doubt and setting the scene for COVID event, controlling the narrative to promote fear of the "novel deadly virus". In May 2020, at least 14 signed Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19 a call to create an infrastructure capable of rapidly injecting everyone in the world with the COVID jabs which they correctly predicted would appear. They populated COVID task forces and locked the world down, uncritically pushed the "vaccine" to the point of announcing mandates.

Virus R & D

Full article: COVID-19/Origins

The following Bilderberg worked developing the CRISPR gene editing technique:

Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks, held in February 2020 before the Munich Security Conference, attended by three veteran Bilderberger pandemic planners: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Sam Nunn and Avril Haines

• Bernard Cazeneuve - 2018 - In 2017 attended the founding ceremony of the BSL-4 lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, together with Yves Lévy, whose wife abruptly banned over-the-counter sales of hydroxychloroquine in France in January 2020, declaring it "poisonous" without explanation.
• Emmanuelle Charpentier - 2016 - Pioneered CRISPR as a tool for genome editing (for which she was co-recipient of a Nobel prize in 2020 together with Jennifer Doudna)
• Sean Parker - 2010 - Billionaire who was the first to gain NIH approval for a trial of CRISPR

Pandemic Planning

Full article: Pandemic/Planning

Many Bilderbergers have worked repeatedly at Pandemic Planning; the group has been well represented at such exercises for at least 20 years. Those with the most obvious ties:

• Gro Harlem Brundtland - 1982, 1983, introduced A Spreading Plague (2019 Pandemic planning exercise), and attended Atlantic Storm, and the February 2020 Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks exercise
• Avril Haines - 2017 - 2023 - US Deep State actor who participated in Event 201 and the February 2020 Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks exercises. Deputy Director of the CIA 2013-15, Director of National Intelligence since 2021
• Sam Nunn - 1997, 1996 - Long experience at pandemic planning, Operation Dark Winter, A Spreading Plague, the February 2020 Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks exercise

Judith Rodin took part in the 2010 Lock Step exercise about using a pandemic to usher in high tech totalitarianism

• Judith Rodin - 2005 - As President of the Rockefeller Foundation took part in the Lock Step exercise which foresaw a pandemic as the means by which a technototalitarian government might unfold.

Task Forces

Full article: COVID-19 Task Force

In Spring 2020, many nation states formed COVID-19 Task Forces, many of which had, or acted as if they had, "state of emergency" powers to override standard operating procedure.

National Task Forces

• Vittorio Colao - 2018 - Leader of a special task force to handle "Phase 2" of the Italian Covid Task Force
• Christopher Liddell - 2017 - Member of Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force
• Matthew Pottinger - 2019 - Member of Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force. His wife Yen Pottinger was explaining the importance of social distancing in mid March 2020
• Kathleen Sebelius - 2008, 2007 - Member of Biden's White House Coronavirus Task Force and a board member of the Kaiser Family Foundation
• Jeffrey Zients - 2017 - Became White House coronavirus coordinator in 2021, announced in August that year that “it’s time to impose some requirements” where COVID jabs are concerned.

Handlers

Mark Carney, Tri-national, hexa-Bilderberger, Governor of the Bank of England until March 2020, when he became an "informal adviser" to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

• Mark Carney - 2023, 2019, 2018, 2012, 2011 - "acting as an informal adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic."
• Andrew Liveris - 2012 - Ex Dow CEO and Member of the Board of Citigroup, "Special Adviser" to the Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission

Others

Other significant institutions have appointed Bilderbergers to their Covid or pandemic groups:

Jeffrey Sachs, who was made chair of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19 after Peter Daszak recused himself

• Oliver Bäte - 2017 - Bavaria's COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council member who made various alarmist statements about the virus, such as comparing it to a "worldwide meteor impact" or the explosion of a nuclear power station.
• Laurence Boone - 2015 - A Commissioner of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19 - As the Global Economic Forum's chief economist, advising about the economic response to COVID-19
• Sylvia Burwell - 2018 - Co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations's "Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness
• Mitchell Daniels - 2012 - Member of the Council on Foreign Relations's "Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness"
• Joe Kaeser - 2016,2015 - Appointed to Bavaria's COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council (as Siemens CEO) by Markus Söder
• Paul Polman - 2012 - Member of the The Lancet's COVID-19 commission.
• Olli Rehn - 2007 - As Governor of Bank of Finland, in 2021 became chair of FIFA's COVID-19 Relief Plan steering committee., published about "Monetary policy in the emerging post-pandemic context"
• Jeffrey Sachs - 1990 - Chaired The Lancet's COVID-19 commission. In late 2022 was widely reported by commercially-controlled media as highly spectical of the zoonotic origin theory of COVID-19
• Tidjane Thiam - 2019, 2013 - One of the four African Union’s COVID-19 Special Envoys
• Philip Zelikow - 2007, 2006 - Drafter of the 9/11 Commission Report, appointed to lead the University of Virginia's COVID Commission Planning Group

Social change

The "response" to COVID-19 was a sweeping set of social changes enforced by fiat, having minimal scientific justification, if any. They directly contradicted best practice up to 2020.

• Stefan Löfven - 2013 - As Swedish PM, managed the Swedish Covid measures.

Lockdowns

Full article: COVID-19/Lockdown

A WEF tweet which was quickly deleted after it raised criticism.

Most nation states decreed what was termed a "lockdown", i.e. a drastic restriction of freedom of movement. This was in opposition to the 2019 WHO best practice guide for pandemics, which specifically advised against this practice. As of Summer 2021, there is little scientific evidence that these measures had any measurable impact on spread of COVID-19, but this claim remains part of the COVID-19 official narrative.

• Alberto Alesina - 2018 - "Strongly agreed" in March 2020 with all 3 points of the Bilderberg consensus Lockdown policy, with a high degree of confidence. Died in May 2020, aged 63.
• Cathy Berx - 2018 - Governor of Antwerp who oversaw the introduction of lockdown and curfew measures in Antwerp in July 2020.
• Stefano Feltri - 2019 - Italian journalist who wrote supporting the official narrative, that lockdowns were "inevitable".
• Demis Hassabis - 2023, 2018, 2016, 2015 - Dialed in to a meeting of SAGE which promoted the UK COVID Lockdown.
• Sauli Niinistö - 1997 - As President of Finland uncritically wrote of "the need for strict, short-term restrictive measures..." and was similarly uncritical about the need for a fast rollout of "vaccines"
• Bill Morneau - 2017, 2016 - as Canadian Finance Minister in 2020 "approved the spending of nearly $200 billion in federal aid in a deliberate effort to shut down huge portions of Canadian society"
• Norbert Röttgen - 2014, 2023 - As chair of the CDU he was aggressively promoting the German Covid lockdowns
• Erna Solberg - 2011 - Norwegian PM who led the national lockdowns. Directed billions of dollars to international vaccine programs (GAVI etc)

Furlough Schemes

• György Surányi - 1999, 1997, 1996 - Wrote a long essay in April 2020 suggesting the Hungarian government pay targeted subsidies to those who lose their jobs due to lockdowns.

Digitalization

• George Pagoulatos - 2019 - Greek economist and later Ambassador to the OECD. Pagoulatos believed that economic austerity (introduced by economists like himself) helps to explain how Greeks have "put aside their traditionally defiant attitude towards authority." "In just a few short weeks, our once ill-reputed state is being equipped with effective crisis management mechanisms and the country with digital systems and functions that would have otherwise taken years to implement."
• Carlo Ratti - 2014 - Architect who published about Reimagining the Office
• Frans Timmermans - 2008 - Co-Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, Vice-President of the European Commission, took many opportunities to opine on "Which world do we want after COVID-19?"
• Margrethe Vestager - 2014 - Co-Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age

Masks

Full article: Mask

Masks are used to prevent bacterial spread, but viruses are far smaller. There is minimal evidence for their efficacy against COVID-19. but clear evidence of the social impact such as decreasing empathy, increasing fear and violence. Health experts suggest their use was only suitable for COVID-19 sufferers,to prevent spread, but this was suddenly reversed after SDS pressure, and their use was uncritically (and unscientifically) promoted, and even mandated.

Bain & Company's instructions on how workplaces should change due to COVID-19

• Dianne Feinstein - 1991 - In July 2020 proposed withholding COVID-19 relief from states without mask mandates. Both she and her husband sold stock in Allogene Therapeutics in 2021 before the lockdowns.

Ventilators

In 2020, part of the medical malpractice was the widespread use of ventilators to treat those diagnosed (or sometimes assumed ^{[Citation Needed]}) to have COVID-19. Heavy censorship was directed to those who presented evidence that this lead to more deaths, not less.

BOOST describes itself as "a regional acceleration programme, powered by UNDP"

• Ömer Koç - 2022, 2017-2019 - Chair of Koç Holding, a "partner of the World Economic Forum and Turkey’s largest investment holding company", a subsidiary of which, Arçelik, which the WEF reported "is undertaking the mass production of life-saving mechanical ventilators to help the country avoid possible shortages". Koç Holding partnered with UNDP, the Slovak Ministry of Finance and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in BOOST, "a new regional acceleration program that uses social impact innovation to tackle Covid-19 challenges".

Social distancing

Full article: “Social distancing”

• Susan Athey - 2013 - With Dean Karlan, published How to practice social distancing while helping the economy in the Washington Post
• Orit Gadiesh - 1998, 1997 - Chair of Bain & Company, which was closely involved in directing government policy in various nations. In France it was entrusted by the government to steer the country's Covid testing strategy. On 29 April 2020 it put out a guide describing how workplaces should change due to COVID-19.

Testing

• Gina Raimondo - 2022 - Aggressively pursued the official COVID policy in 2020 as Governor of Rhode Island, a state reported to be "leading the nation in testing".

Track and Trace

Full article: Mass surveillance

• Louise Arbour - 2019 - In 2020 made Honorary President of COVI Canada, which released the COVI application.
• Dido Harding - 2016 - Placed in charge of producing the NHSX app for Covid

Controlling the Narrative

George Soros, of The Good Club, is suspected to have been controlling the narrative through groups such as BLM

• John Allen - 2015 - As Brookings Institution President co-edited the Brookings Institution's plan for Reopening America
• William Joseph Burns - 2016-2015 - Career diplomat CIA Director from March 2021, ensured that U.S. intelligence community does not know the origins of COVID-19
• Regina Dugan - 2015 - DARPA, Facebook, Google, "The global pandemic is our generation’s Sputnik", CEO of Wellcome Trust
• Richard Haass - 2007-2003 , 1991 - Widely reported since as CFR president in 2020, , member of the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy
• Henry Kissinger - 2019-2010 , 2008-1994 , 1992-1980, 1978, 1977, 1971, 1964, 1957 October, 1957 February - Arch-Bilderberger deep politician, numerous influential public pronouncements on COVID-19
• Ivan Krastev - 2019 - Published various articles about COVID-19's social impact from March 2020 onwards and wrote Is It Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic
• Charles Michel - 2018, 2016, 2015 - As President of the European Council, in December 2020 he proposed an international treaty on pandemics, in March 2021 "mount[ed a] fierce defense of EU vaccine plan"
• Christine Ockrent - 2008, 2007, 1984 - Influential Belgian journalist who shaped the narrative around COVID for the French language audience, including writing La guerre des récits. Xi, Trump, Poutine : la pandémie et le choc des empires. Wife of Bernard Kouchner
• George Soros - 2002, 2000, 1996, 1994, 1990 - The Good Club, influence of BLM to control the narrative in 2020
• Mary Ann Sieghart - 2001 - Presented Fallout on BBC Radio 4, a series about the possible outcomes of the Coronavirus.
• Michael Spence - 2014 - Numerous high profile announcements promoting the official narrative, member of the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy
• Sidney Taurel - 2007 - Chair of Pearson which "implement[ed] new health and safety principles" and "launched an online community for our people to connect, share stories and support each other", chair emeritus of Eli Lilly which produced bamlanivimab.
• Fareed Zakaria - 2005, 2003 - Journalist who wrote Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Academia

• Senem Aydın-Düzgit - 2016 - Professor of International Relations, published multiple papers on COVID and governance, some co-authored with Fuat Keyman
• Fuat Keyman - 2012 - Professor of International Relations and Vice President at Sabancı University, published multiple papers on COVID and governance, some co-authored with Senem Aydın-Düzgit
• James Orbinksi - 2011 - Developed the COVID-19 Global Health Portal. Also published various research about COVID-19
• Ole Petter Ottersen - 2011 - Presented at the July 2020 International Symposium On Novel Ideas In Science And Ethics Of Vaccines Against Covid-19 Pandemic, published research on Addressing production gaps for vaccines in African countries
• Arild Underdal - 2004 - Editing academic research about COVID-19
• James Vaupel - 2011 - Edited and co-authored academic research about COVID-19, on topics such as the death toll in Sweden after their refusal to instigate widespread lockdowns.

Big media

The non reporting of Bilderberg by TV or newspapers reveals that the group has considerable control of big media, which was mobilised to support the official narrative.

• Juan Luis Cebrián - 2018-2001, 1993, 1990-1987, 1985, 1983- Billionaire, media mogul, one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019).
• Andrew Coyne - 2015 - Canadian columnist and aggressive pusher of the COVID official narrative. e.g. He dismissed the Great Reset as a "conspiracy theory", and in December 2021 headlined an article Is the case for vaccine mandates like the case for seatbelt laws? No, it’s much, much stronger
• Mathias Döpfner - 2019-2014, 2007-2005 - Billionaire, Axel Springer Publishing House/CEO
• Felix Gutzwiller - 2013 - On Swiss TV in March 2020 answering public questions about COVID-19.
• François Lenglet - 2017 - French editor who in March 2021 termed vaccine passports "the best recovery instrument available".

In March 2020 Shiraz Maher wrote a first hand account of his mild case of COVID-19

Promoting panic

Full article: COVID-19/Panic

Commercially-controlled media's coverage of COVID-19 was a more-or-less monotone echo of the fear-driven official narrative, while calmer, more scientific voices “were never invited to the expert table”, as the editor of Bild admitted in August 2021.

• James Fallows - 2018 - Wrote years of stories The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything... Here we stand, on a mountain of dead.”(2020) .. " did everything we could to get vaccines as soon as they were available. We’ve had all the boosters at each stage since then." (2022) "The Wuhan Institute of Virology, in China. Is this where the catastrophic Covid pandemic began?" (2023)
• Shiraz Maher - 2015 - A "terrorism expert" who reported case "classified as “mild” by British health authorities". His "horrifying account of his experience with COVID-19" was picked up by the commercially-controlled media after being widely promoted on Twitter.
• John Micklethwait - 2019-2009, 2007 - Co-authored The Wake-Up Call with Adrian Wooldridge. A promotional article, How the West was lost, concluded "For all its awfulness, the Covid-19 pandemic is an alarm call... It’s not too late to wake up to the fact that the West is losing its pre-eminence. We still have time to repair the damage. But we don’t have that much time — and the Eastern world is forging ahead while we are still dithering. Whatever we do, we cannot afford to hit the snooze button."
• Kenneth Rogoff - 2012 - Former IMF economist whose dire predictions in early 2020 were widely reported in commercially-controlled media. Also predicted that COVID would speed the move away from cash

“Every time I open the obituary pages of the local newspaper, I find so many people that I know have died. A whole generation is being wiped out.”
Beppe Severgnini (25 April 2020) 

• Beppe Severgnini - 2017 - Italian editor/journalist who reported from north Italy in March 2020, stating in April 2020 that "a whole generation is being wiped out".

“There will be no recovery. There will be social unrest. There will be violence.”
Jacob Wallenberg (26 March 2020) 

From "business expert" Jacob Wallenberg, a third generation Bilderberger

• Jacob Wallenberg - 2016-2000, 1998 - Issued dire warnings of social unrest in March 2020 reported by commercially-controlled media
• Adrian Wooldridge - 2012-2004, 2002-1998 - Co-authored The Wake-Up Call with John Micklethwait.

Opinion polling

• Nicolas Berggruen - 2014 - Billionaire funder of various groups including the Berggruen Institute, which has been researching COVID-19 as a social change agent and in influencing attitudes and policies about it.
• Renate Köcher - 2018 - A German pollster who researched attitudes to COVID-19 and was interviewed about them by corporate media

Censorship

Full article: COVID-19/Censorship

"I urge world leaders to fully support the Global Vaccination Strategy I launched with the World Health Organization last month. We need to get vaccines into the arms of 40 per cent of people in all countries by the end of this year [2021] — and 70 per cent by mid-2022."

• António Guterres - 2005, 1990 - In March 2020, as UN secretary general, asked for increased censorship by big tech of online "hate speech" in response to COVID-19. In October 2021, advocating swift vaccination of the whole world's population.

Big tech is notoriously opaque in its censorship, which reached record heights in 2020/21 on the topic of COVID-19, as predicted by Event 201. Involvement in censorship is difficult to prove, but it seems likely that censorship was carried out with the agreement of (or at the behest of) the following chief execs:

• Jared Cohen - 2019, 2018 - Jigsaw CEO (formerly Google Ideas)
• Reid Hoffman - 2019-2014, 2012, 2011, LinkedIn Executive Chairman
• Robert Kimmitt - 1995 - Appointed Facebook's "lead independent director" in March 2020
• Patrick Pichette - 2018 - Appointed Twitter's CEO in June 2020.
• Eric Schmidt - 2019, 2017-2007 - US billionaire who works for Alphabet, with a track record of arranging YouTube censorship of dissent.
• Jens Stoltenberg - 2002-2015-2017-2018-2019 - NATO General-Secretary. Using censorship mechanisms established during Russiagate, NATO played a role in "combatting the spread of harmful, false and misleading narratives through disinformation."

“China has taken the strongest measures to contain the spread of the virus compared to the rest of the world, with a mixture of distinctive solutions, from the world’s most severe lockdown in Wuhan to the generalized use of digital tools. It has paid off.”
Viviana Zhu (16 December 2020) 

• Henri de Castries - 2002-2019, 2023 Chair of the Bilderberg Steering Committee, founded the Institut Montaigne, which was busy monitoring COVID "disinformation", and promoting the official narrative about the importance of locking up citizens etc.

"Vaccines"

Full article: “COVID-19/Vaccine”

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director general, "Every day, people are searching for a path out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, scientific international cooperation and vaccines have created hope that a brighter future is within reach..."

The experimental gene therapies always referred to by commercially-controlled media as "COVID-19 vaccinations" received emergency use authorisations which could not have been given if alternative treatments were available. It was therefore necessary to sideline drug therapies.

R & D

The interviewer, John Snow covered his mouth after this remark, interrupted him, hesitated and did not ask any further questions.

• John Bell - 2013 - Gates Foundation, GAVI researcher whose interests include DNA mutation, on the UK Vaccine Task Force, who stated in an interview that “These [COVID-19] vaccines are unlikely to completely sterilize a population. They're very likely to have an effect which works in a percentage. Say, 60% or 70%.”

Sidelining repurposed drugs

Jens Spahn was made German Health minister after attending the 2017 Bilderberg, rejected a donation of hydroxychloroquine in 2020 and stated that "vaccines are the way out of this pandemic"

Sidelining of drugs to treat the disease was a requirement for the granting of Emergency Use Authorisation of the experimental jabs. Many Bilderberg controlled groups, such as Médecins Sans Frontières, termed repurposed drugs "disinformation".

• Werner Baumann - 2017 - CEO of Bayer, who in early 2020 initially announced a plan to create a Chloroquine production facility in Europe, which transitioned to a partnership with Curevac to create CVnCoV, a COVID-19 Vaccine candidate.
• Hans-Georg Betz - 2000 - "It boggles the mind that the very same people who are worried about the potential side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have absolutely no qualms playing Russian roulette with their health when it comes to ivermectin... COVID-19 denial in all its different forms is like a cult."
• Trine Eilertsen - 2015 - Promoted to Editor in chief of Aftenposten in 2020, a paper as of June 2021 which was questioning the need for "experimental treatment" of COVID-19 cases with ivermectin.
• Jens Spahn - 2017 - German Health minister since March 2018, close to big pharma. Was specifically requested to look into ivermectin as a tool to control the spread of the disease, but moved towards mandating vaccines and stated that "vaccines are the way out of this pandemic".

Liability Evasion

• Evan Greenberg - 2017, 2014 - Chairman and CEO of Chubb, "pleased to extend our collaboration with the World Health Organization and its partners to support the critically important COVAX No-Fault Compensation Program."

Production & distribution

Clément Beaune announcing the vaccine strategy

• José Manuel Barroso - 2019-2015, 2013, 2005, 2003, 1994, made GAVI CEO in 2021
• Clément Beaune - 2019 - Emmanuel Macron's "Monsieur Europe", as French European Affairs Minister, outlined France's strategy for the deployment of vaccines
• Albert Bourla - 2022, 2023 - Chairman and CEO of Pfizer who termed the COVID jabs "weapons"
• Ian Bremmer - 2007 - Founded the Eurasia Group, whose 2020 study on access to COVID jabs "to assess the economic benefits to advanced economies of contributing to the work of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator" the WHO cited.
• François-Philippe Champagne - 2019, 2018 - In August 2021, as Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced Canada has established an MOU with Moderna to build a state-of-the-art "mRNA vaccine" production facility in Canada.
• Leif Johansson - 2000, 2001 - Non-executive chairman of AstraZeneca
• Alex Karp - 2023, 2019-2012 - Co-founded Palantir, which has been active internationally with COVID, and provided the software for Operation Warp Speed.
• Jared Kushner - 2019 - Charged with fast tracking a Covid vaccine, announced Operation Warp Speed.

Peter Thiel, Co-founder and largest shareholder of Palantir, which is heavily involved in crunching COVID data

• Jacek Szwajcowski - 2005 - Co-owner of KIPF, a holding company for Pelion Pharma, which the EBRD granted PLN 110M "to actively manage working capital needs across business lines in light of increased sales volatility caused by the Covid-19 outbreak."
• Peter Thiel - 2019-2007 - Co-founder and largest shareholder of Palantir as of 2020

“It is by coming together on vaccine research, mass production and distribution, that we will deliver safe and fair access to vaccines to all that need it, leaving no one behind.”
Jutta Urpilainen (3 February 2021) 

• Jutta Urpilainen - 2013, 2012 - European Community Commissioner for International Partnerships, "Team Europe is working on preparedness of our partners. We are assisting partners with technical assistance and guidance to prepare national vaccination strategies, logistics, and information campaigns. National ownership and responsibility for preparing and deploying COVID-19 vaccines remains paramount."

Uncritical promotion

Scores, perhaps hundreds of Bilderbergers have been actively promoting the jabs. This list contains only the most fervent advocates and those with key jobs allowing them to throw large institutional weight behind such opinions:

“COVID-19 does not respect borders. No country will be safe until the people of every country have access to the vaccine.”
Audrey Azoulay

• Audrey Azoulay - 2019, 2018 - UNESCO Director general. Vocal, uncritical promotion of the COVID official narrative
• Clément Beaune - YEL/2019 - Bilderberg/2019 - Emmanuel Macron's "Monsieur Europe", as French European Affairs Minister, outlined France's strategy for the deployment of vaccines
• Carl Bildt - 2014-2013, 2011-2006, 2000-1999, 1997-1996, 1993-1992 - "An unprecedented threat demands an unprecedented response" - appointed by Tedros Ghebreyesus in March 2021 as WHO Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, which was Bill Gates's "bid to organize the development and distribution of everything from therapeutics to testing."
• Ana Botín - 2019-2015, 2010 - Head of Banco Santander, who declared at the virtual Davos Agenda summit of global leaders that vaccinations against coronavirus are “the most effective 2021 economic policy.”

“People act like they have a choice. You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we've largely vaccinated the entire global population [against COVID-19].”
Bill Gates (2020) 

• Bill Gates - 2010 - Aggressive promotion of vaccines, ID2020 and vaccine passports. Predicted in March 2020 that "Eventually we will need some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested (for COVID-19) recently, or when we have a vaccine, who has received it."
• Melinda Gates - 2004 - Of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which sponsored ID2020 and is heavily invested in vaccine research, development and advocacy
• Luis de Guindos - 2017, 2013 - As Vice-President of the European Central Bank, in late 2020/early 2021 was talking up the economic benefits of fast vaccine rollouts and of banks in helping businesses affected by the lockdown measures.
• Walter Isaacson - 2004 - Former editor of Time magazine, widely interviewed in commercially-controlled media, where his glowing account of being one of 44,000 people to participate in Pfizer trial termed the COVID jabs "a miracle for genetic medicine" In 2021 published The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.
• Joseph Nye - 1994 - Widely cited from March 2020 on COVID-19 policy, argued that the "US should lead a group of rich countries in a plan to vaccinate the rest of the world now, even before the job is finished at home."
• Rolf Soiron - 2011 - Former Chairman (2005–2018) of the Board of Directors of Lonza Group, a company with insider access to the World Economic Forum and manufacturing billions of COVID-19 vaccines for Moderna.
• Bill Richardson - 2000, 1999 - In November 2021 went to Myanmar to help the leadership "identify specific ways to speed the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility to Myanmar and to help mitigate a possible fourth wave of COVID-19".
• Augosto Santos Silva - 2006 - As Portuguese foreign minister pledged to donate 5% of their vaccines to Portuguese ex-colonies, “Supporting international vaccination is essential for the eradication of the COVID-19 pandemic. No country in the world will be safe until everyone is safe"
• Kevin Warsh - 2014-2011 - As ex-US Federal Reserve governor: "The biggest, most important stimulus... is this vaccine"
• Martin Wolf - 2019, 2017-2012, 2009,2006-2003, 2001-1999 - Member of the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy. As economics correspondent for the Financial Times wrote that Coronavirus could be worst economic crisis since [The] Great Depression but was more fulsome in his jab advocacy:

  “Scientists have achieved miracles with the vaccines. Now the world’s leaders have just to show elementary common sense. They must do “whatever it takes” to finance accelerated production and distribution of vaccines – and, if necessary, reformulated vaccines – globally. This is the only way for us to regain any sort of normality. Nothing should be allowed to get in the way. This is a global war and our species is not yet winning. That has to change, from tomorrow.”
  Martin Wolf (10 February 2021)  We must vaccinate the world – now

Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy

Full article: Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy

The Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy was a Bilderberg staffed group to try to promote universal submission to mandatory injections. It occupied an unusual space between public and private group -- i.e. a public group that tried to lobby governments in secret. Its members included the following Bilderbergers: John Allen, Jacques Attali, Emma Bonino, Richard Haass, François Heisbourg, André Hoffmann, Wolfgang Ischinger, Walter Kielholz, Margaret MacMillan, Norbert Röttgen, Timothy Snyder, Michael Spence, Martin Wolf, Michael Zantovsky

Scapegoating of non-recipients

"Hunt for the non-vaccinated. There are 17 million more" on the front page of Maurizio Molinari's Republicca

• Bernard Kouchner - 2005 - 3 time French Health Minister who took part in Atlantic Storm and started Médecins Sans Frontières. Aggressive promotion of mandatory injections included terming those declined the jabs "allies of the virus" Husband of Christine Ockrent.
• Maurizio Molinari - 2017 - Italian editor whose paper ran with "Hunt for the non-vaccinated" on its front page on 17 July 2021.
• Michael O'Leary - 2019-2015 - "If you’re not vaccinated, you shouldn’t be allowed in the hospital, you shouldn’t be allowed to fly, you shouldn’t be allowed on the London Underground, and you shouldn’t be allowed in the local supermarket or your pharmacy either."
• Olaf Scholz - 2010 - As German vice chancellor stepped up pressure on refuseniks whom in January 2022 he termed "a tiny minority of reckless extremists."

Mandation

Full article: COVID-19/Vaccine/Mandation

Bilderbergers have been both calling for and decreeing mandatory injections in response to COVID-19.

• Frank Bsirske - 2017 - As German Green parliamentarian called for mandatory injections enforced by punitive fines.
• Mario Draghi - 2009, 2008, 2004-2000, 1995,1994 - As Prime Minister of Italy announced mandatory injection for healthcare workers in Italy, later floated mandatory injection of all adults.
• Harold Ford - 2008 - After joining FOX News in April 2021, took part in debates on mandatory jabs and related internet censorship.
• Christoph Franz - 2015 - As Hoffmann-La Roche President called for mandatory injections in Switzerland. His vice-chair, André Hoffmann - 2019 was a WEF trustee
• Lilli Gruber - 2019-2015, 2013, 2012 - Italian journalist: "Yes to mandatory vaccines"
• Jon Huntsman - 2012 - Had direct control of the Salt Lake Tribune in Jan 2022 when it called for the deployment of the US National Guard "to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere."

Ursula von der Leyen, a figure of great importance in COVID-19 event

• Ursula von der Leyen - 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015 - President of the European Commission since December 2019, in 2021 announced a proposal to "revive the EU tourism industry and for cross-border friendships to rekindle - safely," referring to permitting travel only for recipients of the COVID jabs She claimed to have lost the text messages she exchanged with Albert Bourla (Pfizer's CEO) during the EU’s COVID jab procurement talks. In December 2021 was promoting EU wide mandatory COVID jabs.
• Emmanuel Macron - 2014 - As French President, set up France's COVID-19 Scientific Council in March 2020. Declared mandatory jabs for access to common facilities in France in 2021.

Angela Merkel as German Chancellor stated that "the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated"

• Angela Merkel - 2005 - Stated in February 2021 that "the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated", later that “We have all agreed that we need vaccine certificates.” Advised by Kurt Lauk - 2015 - 2013 - 1996 - 1991
• Panagiotis Pikrammenos - 2015 - Deputy Prime Minister of Greece who wanted compulsory vaccination for most employments. "Whether it is constitutionally correct, the courts will ultimately judge".
• Pamela Rendi-Wagner - 2018 - Months after her Bilderberg, made head of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, which in 2021 voted for mandatory vaccination enforced by fines and prison sentences. "Although compulsory vaccination was never our goal, unfortunately it has now become necessary."
• Tom Tugendhat - 2019 - UK MP who in November 2020 floated the idea that COVID jabs could be mandated for UK workers or travellers. In 2021, asked for investigation of the claim of (fellow 2019 Bilderberger) Matthew Pottinger that the virus came from the WIV.

"Vaccine Passports"

Full article: Vaccine/Passport

Mark Rutte, six time Bilderberg visitor, as Dutch PM fired his Economic Affairs Minister, Mona Keijzer, shortly after she publicly criticised the Dutch Vaccine passport.

• Dominique Anglade - 2018 - Made leader of the Quebec Liberal Party in 2020. Calling for "freedom passports" in August 2021.
• Tony Blair - 1993 - Aggressive promotion of "Vaccine passports", early suggester of locking down people who declined the jabs.
• Ana Brnabić - 2018 - As Serbian PM, stated in September 2021 that the government was “preparing for the introduction of the COVID passes.”
• Patrice Caine - 2019 - CEO of Thales Group, arms manufacturer with an established E-passport/digital identity technology business
• Gunilla Carlsson - 2012 - GAVI board member, shaping vaccine passport policy "Were similar vaccine passports to become the norm for international travel, the Green Certificate could set a precedent..."
• Sharon Dijksma- 2016 - Mayor of Utrecht who ordered a restaurant closed after it refused to check vaccine passports
• Kyriakos Mitsotakis - 2018, 2016 - As Greek PM displayed Klaus Schwab's The Great Reset on his desk. In early 2021 he was promoting the idea of "vaccine passports", in November 2021 he was implementing them.
• George Osborne - 2018, 2017, 2015-2013, 2011, 2009-2006 - UK deep politician, promoter of vaccine passports, e.g. “Already some employers are demanding that their employees have vaccines. Leading a normal working life as part of society will become impossible without proof you’ve had a vaccine. Government shouldn’t stand in the way of that — it should facilitate it. As our real passports already say on the first page, Covid passports will “allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance”. Bring them on.”
• Valérie Pécresse - 2013 -In 2021, announced support mandatory COVID-19 jabbing and confinement of the unjabbed. In early January 2022, announced she would support a stricter French health pass that would require proof of having been "fully vaccinated" against COVID-19, rather than having recovered or testing negative.
• Mark Rutte - 2019-2018, 2016-2015, 2013-2012 - As Dutch PM, fired his Economic Affairs Minister, Mona Keijzer, shortly after she publicly criticised the Dutch Vaccine passport.

Sidelining natural immunity

An especially obvious glitch in the official COVID narrative has been the refusal to admit that the scientific truth that natural immunity is far more durable than anything provided by the COVID jabs.

• William Lewis - 1997 - Non-executive Director of AP, which claimed that "Natural immunity is ... not long-lasting" to promote the COVID official narrative

Great Reset

Full article: Great Reset

Klaus Schwab, ex-Bilderberg Steering Committee

The Great Reset is an SDS attempt to reframe of economic inequality in a positive light: "You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy". COVID-19 has greatly increased economic inequality as small and medium enterprise have been forced under while unprecedented peacetime increases in the money supply and corporate welfare have been doled out to a few large organisations.

• Magdalena Andersson - 2016 - As Swedish finance minister in April 2021 promoted a global economic restart. Emphasized "the need for strong international cooperation to accelerate vaccine production and support affordable and equitable distribution to all."
• Olivier Blanchard - 2016 - French economist widely published on how COVID-19 could or should change the economic world order, especially with fellow Bilderberger, Jean Pisani-Ferry
• Børge Brende - 2016-2018, 2019, 2023 - President of the World Economic Forum since 2017. "The direction we need to head is toward greater dialogue, coordination and collective action".."the principles call for greater public-private collaboration"
• Miguel Fernández Ordóñez Spanish central banker and promoter of central bank digital currencies.
• He Liu - 2014 - As the Chinese vice-premier, stated that "We need to strengthen market mechanisms, form healthy competition, reduce institutional transaction costs, and establish a unified, open, competitive and orderly high-standard market system"
• Thomas de Maizière - 2016 - Suggesting the German constitution needed to be changed to account for the next great emergency after Covid...
• Mario Monti - 2015-2013, 2011-2003, 2001, 1999, 1996, 1994-1983 - Took over leadership of the European WHO commission in August 2020.
• Louise Fresco - 2015 - Dutch food scientist who sat on European WHO commission under Monti. Concluded with calling for implementation of a One Health strategy to take control over human, animal and environmental health in a coordinated way, public-private partnerships, the creation of a Global Health Board under the G20, a Pandemic Treaty for joint decision-making, and a global pandemic vaccine policy.
• Jean Pisani-Ferry - 2009 - French economist widely published on how COVID-19 could or should change the economic world order, especially with especially with fellow Bilderberger, Olivier Blanchard
• Mariana Mazzucato - 2018. A shill for Big Pharma, she in 2020 predicted that "in the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again – this time to tackle a climate emergency. Under a "climate lockdown," governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. "
• Diederik Samsom - 2014 - Dutch politician turned EU bureaucrat. As Head of Cabinet for Frans Timmermans, he was one of the main drivers for getting a through a €1 trillion+ "green" buildings directive, greatly decreasing home affordability by mandating expensive renovations by 2030.
• Klaus Schwab - 2016, 2007, 2003, 1997-1995, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, which has been central in the entire deep event
• Johan Rockström - 2019 - Swedish professor who at the 2019 Bilderberg presented a Planetary Emergency Action Plan written for the Club of Rome.
• Ignazio Visco - 2004 - Governor of the Bank of Italy, widely quoted about the financial consequences of "the necessary lockdown and social distancing measures"."The main instrument we have at the moment is neither monetary nor fiscal, it is vaccinations"

COVID handouts

As President of the European Central Bank, spent at least €1,850 billion on an asset purchase program during COVID-19. "If we don’t vaccinate the whole world, it will come back to haunt us and hurt us in the form of new variants."

• Gordon Brown - 1991 - In April 2021, promoted a $60 billion effort to increase vaccination in "poor countries". Appointed WHO ambassador for global health financing in September 2021.
• Elisa Ferreira- 2002 - Appointed European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms in December 2019 by Ursula von der Leyen, in charge of smaller EU handouts, and on committees deciding about REACT-EU: “The additional European cohesion fund of €47 billion makes an important contribution towards rebuilding after the crisis. We need coherent and long-term strategies which rapidly trigger the green and digital transition and which are adapted to the local needs and potential.”
• Luis Garicano - 2016 - In March 2020, proposed a €500 billion "bazooka" to fight the virus, stabilise the European economy, and protect its jobs while the economy is in the "freezer".
• Paolo Gentiloni - 2023 - In early March 2020, Gentiloni was appointed by President von der Leyen to sit on the commission's special task force to coordinate their response to the COVID-19 "pandemic". The task force's program ended up with the implementation of a mostly debt-financed €1824.3 billion "recovery" package. The European Commission intended to strongly link the "recovery" plan to combat "climate change", changing the energy sector, with a target of achieving net zero by 2050.
• Kristalina Georgieva - 2016 - As IMF managing director organised “emergency financing on a scale [and at a speed] never seen before” - issuing dire economic forecasts
• Austan Goolsbee - 2012 - Obama advisor, published on the economics of COVID Fan of heavy COVID-19 spending. "The number one rule of virus economics is that you have to stop the virus before you can do anything about economics."
• Christine Lagarde -2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2009 - As President of the European Central Bank she spent €1,850 billion on asset purchase program during COVID-19. In joint interview with Klaus Schwab she declared an intent to "vaccinate the whole world".

Stephen Poloz speaking in March 2020.

• Stephen Poloz - 2014 - Took over from Mark Carney as Governor of the Bank of Canada. In late March 2020, announced a minimum $5-billion-per-week of market purchases of Government of Canada bonds, “to address strains in the government of Canada debt market and to enhance the effectiveness of all other actions taken so far.” "We have taken several actions to unclog key lending channels, adding over $200 billion of liquidity, or around 10% of Canadian GDP. As I said recently, no one has ever criticized a firefighter for using too much water. When the system demands more liquidity, the central bank must provide it."
• Wolfgang Schäuble -2003, 2016 - President of the German Bundestag, saw the "pandemic" as a fantastic opportunity to get rid of national sovereignty and create an United States of Europe":

The corona crisis is a great opportunity. Resistance to change becomes less during the crisis. We can now manage the [EU] economic and financial union, which we have not been able to achieve politically so far ...

• Nout Wellink - 2010, 2009 , 2006 - As ex-President of the Central Bank of the Netherlands and ex-BIS/Chairman was promoting "Coronabonds" in March 2020.
• Pierre Wunsch - 2017 - As Governor of the National Bank of Belgium signed off on measures involving a 50 billion euro "financial buffer" that he named a “financial bazooka”.

French Covid debt commission

France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex chose the French Covid debt commission to "steer the nation’s deliberations on the future of public finances in the aftermath of the pandemic." He is not known to have attended the Bilderberg, but 3 of his 10 commissioners have:

• Beatrice Weder di Mauro - 2016, Laurence Parisot - 2007, Hélène Rey - 2013

Digital Identity

• Sam Altman - 2016 - 2022 - Tech-millionaire interested in basic income and collection of biometric data such as retina prints.

Unproven/Unclear role

• Flemming Besenbacher - 2014 - Danish researcher into self-organizing nanostructures and biocompatible materials, deputy chair of the Danish Innovation Fund assisted processing of Covid-19-related applications.
• Sigrid Kaag - 2019, 2018 - Dutch diplomat and politician who from 2018 sits on the WHO and World Bank Group's Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
• Johanna Rosén - 2017 - Expert on the electrical properties of thin films, including graphene
• Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - 2011 - Chairman of Nestlé and on the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees

Agenda

No agenda for the 2020 Bilderberg Agenda was released. Conjectured topics include:

• The 2020 COVID pandemic
• The post-COVID lockdown economy
• The Great Reset
• Technological developments, including the COVID Vaccine
• How to Control the narrative
• 2020 US Presidential Election
• Internet censorship, in light of the increasing number of leaks
• Restoring faith in the commercially-controlled media

Guests

Most of the Steering Committee were expected to attend. Some perennial Bilderbergers in particular were easy to predict: Victor Halberstadt and Henry Kissinger (more Bilderberg visits than anyone else alive, 44 each), Vernon Jordan (34), Marie-Josée Kravis (29). Former chair, Étienne Davignon (33 visits) might also have been expected to attend.

Bilderberg meetings tend to invite about 50% newcomers. The other half the guests might have been expected to be from the list of 3117 past Bilderbergers.

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