Bilderberg/2025
The 2025 Bilderberg, the 71st Bilderberg meeting[1], took place in Stockholm, Sweden, from the 12th-15th of June. The dates and location of the meeting were first published on the internet in September 2024, an unprecedented leak.[2] The 123 guests included 39 business executives, 35 politicians, 3 financiers, 11 editors/journalists and 6 academics.
Agenda
The key topics for discussion this 2025 were
- Transatlantic Relationship
- Ukraine
- US Economy
- Europe
- Middle East
- Authoritarian Axis
- Defence Innovation and Resilience
- AI, Deterrence and National Security
- Proliferation
- Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
- Depopulation and Migration
Analysis
The German sociologist 'Nel' pointed out that:
This June 2025, the Bilderberg invite list shifted even further toward generals, AI titans, and nuclear planners —a signal that today’s 'informal alliance' is less a salon and more a joint-ops war room.
The agenda’s most telling word: Proliferation. Not non-proliferation, but a frank recognition that nuclear sharing (Poland, Romania?) is moving from hush-hush to a talking point. Within days, GLOBSEC's 2025 Forum (a Bilderberg-style offshoot funded by many of the same corporations but leaning toward tech and defense) released a policy brief urging NATO to
'explicitly extend to all three essential pillars of nuclear deterrence: capabilities, resolve, and communication. This holistic approach is critical not only for deterring Russia in a more dangerous security environment, but also for strengthening internal Alliance cohesion, ensuring public trust, and dissuading adversaries from testing NATO’s red lines.'
A poster-child for this converging tech–defense elite is Dr Gundbert Scherf ( a participant in 2025 Bilderberg’s meeting and 2024 Globsec conference)
Scherf has never faced an electorate, yet he moves through the same Atlantic Fellowship circuit as sitting ministers: a reminder that, in 2025, key policy levers rest as comfortably in cloud-computing start-ups as in parliaments. When Bilderberg discusses a topic called Proliferation, [his company] Helsing's code base is already poised to appear, months later, as the new Rules-of-Engagement paragraph in a NATO white paper.
The idea first emerges in an off-the-record hotel ballroom, reappears as a panel theme in Bratislava, and finally solidifies into an operational directive in Brussels. These networks no longer merely discuss grand strategy; they prototype it and then sell it back to defense ministries as the next unavoidable step. Proliferation, hypersonics, AI target-selection: each cycle begins with 'informal' diplomacy, migrates to a glossy policy brief, and finishes as a line item in someone’s procurement budget.[3]
WEF 2025 AGM
Some 22 of the 2025 Bilderberg visitors are known to have attended the WEF/Annual Meeting/2025.
| Nationality | #Bilderbergs | #WEF AGMs[4] | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zanny Minton Beddoes | UK | 9 | 11 | Financial journalist, Bilderberger, IMF economist under Jeffrey Sachs |
| Fatih Birol | Turkey | 1 | 12 | Turkish economist and executive director of the International Energy Agency, working towards net zero. |
| Ana Botín | Spain | 9 | 12 | Head of Santander Group, who claimed that COVID-19 Vaccines are “the most effective 2021 economic policy.” |
| Albert Bourla | Greece | 4 | 5 | Chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer who termed the COVID jabs "weapons" |
| Børge Brende | Norway | 6 | 14 | Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017- |
| Ebba Busch | Sweden Norway | 1 | 2 | Swedish politician who first went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as Swedish Minister for Energy Business and Industry |
| Nadia Calviño | Spain | 2 | 3 | President of the European Investment Bank. Bilderberg/2024. |
| Øyvind Eriksen | Norway | 4 | 7 | Norwegian attorney and head of industry. Crony of billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke. |
| Demis Hassabis | UK | 7 | 3 | Dialled into a SAGE meeting at the request of Dominic Cummings. First Bilderberg in 2015 |
| Wopke Hoekstra | Netherlands | 3 | 4 | Dutch Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister |
| Martin Lundstedt | Sweden | 2 | 5 | President and CEO of car and truck manufacturer Volvo Group since 2015. He attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Michael McGrath | Republic of Ireland | 1 | 1 | First Bilderberg in 2025 as EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law - at a time when the EU is getting rid of even the pretense of all three. |
| Arthur Mensch | 2 | 2 | "The European hope for AI", formerly of Google. Bilderberg/2024 | |
| Patrick Pouyanné | France | 6 | 5 | Appointed CEO of Total following the bizarre death of Christophe de Margerie (a fellow Bilderberger) in Moscow. |
| Gideon Rachman | UK | 8 | 12 | Spooky UK journalist, friend of MI6 whistleblower Richard Tomlinson, with serious Bilderberg and WEF AGM habits |
| Mark Rutte | Netherlands | 10 | 12 | NATO SG & Prime Minister of the Netherlands, protégé of Geert Wilders, involved in a variety of cover-ups he has "has no memory" of. |
| Jens Stoltenberg | Norway | 9 | 10 | Norwegian Bilderberger, ex PM, Secretary General of NATO. |
| Alexander Stubb | Finland | 3 | 10 | Finnish top politician. At university, a CIA recruiter "put her claws into" him, and he kept his contact with agency people since then. He was selected a YGL 2009. Heavy WEF annual meeting habit. He attended the 2015 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Lawrence Summers | US | 9 | 15 | US Deep State actor "I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted" |
| Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956) | Sweden | 12 | 5 | WEF GLT 1994, Swedish deep state operative, ex-Bilderberg Steering Committee |
| Fareed Zakaria | India | 4 | 14 | Newsweek Editor, first Indian Bilderberger, WEF AGM regular, WEF YGL 2005 ... |
| Maroš Šefčovič | Slovakia | 2 | 5 | Slovak diplomat who has held a number of European Commissioner posts, noticeably for "the European Green Deal". Attended Bilderberg/2024. |
Known Participants
All 123 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Stacey Abrams | Up-and-coming American politician in the Democratic Party. Marshall Memorial Fellow |
| Maria Luís Albuquerque | Portuguese Minister of Finance 2013-15 who introduced "reform" program in agreement with big banks, including Morgan Stanley. Attended Bilderberg 2016. Joined Morgan Stanley board in 2022. |
| Marco Alverà | US-Italian bankster and gas executive on the Bilderberg Steering Committee. Since June 2022 CEO of a hydrogen power company which claims to be able to replace carbon-based energy sources. |
| Magdalena Andersson | Attended the 2016 Bilderberg as Swedish finance minister. Supporter of the Great Reset who was briefly Prime Minister of Sweden. |
| Anne Applebaum | US/Polish DSA, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't a major news story. |
| Gabriel Attal | A "rising star" of French politics who attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting, before being put in charge of the French education system. Then appointed Prime Minister in 2024. |
| Murray Auchincloss | Interim CEO of BP who attended Bilderberg/2024. |
| James H. Baker | Pentagon's top wargamer. 2018, 2019 Bilderberger |
| Patricia Barbizet | Prominent figure in the French business world, Le Siècle President 2017-2019 |
| José Manuel Barroso | Portuguese deep state actor, Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission, WEF GLT 1993 |
| Valérie Baudson | French banker and "the most powerful female financier in Europe after Christine Lagarde". Attended the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Bilderberg meetings. |
| Zanny Minton Beddoes | Financial journalist, Bilderberger, IMF economist under Jeffrey Sachs |
| Leonor Beleza | Portuguese politician who attended the 2007 Bilderberg as Chairwoman of the health sector Champalimaud Foundation, next Bilderberg in 2025 |
| Diego del Alcázar Benjumea | First went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as CEO of the IE University, which recently signed an agreement with OpenAI. |
| Fatih Birol | Turkish economist and executive director of the International Energy Agency, working towards net zero. |
| Ana Botín | Head of Santander Group, who claimed that COVID-19 Vaccines are “the most effective 2021 economic policy.” |
| Albert Bourla | Chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer who termed the COVID jabs "weapons" |
| Børge Brende | Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017- |
| Magnus Brunner | Austrian politician who first went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration |
| Rafał Brzoska | Polish businessman who first went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as CEO of InPost SA |
| Ebba Busch | Swedish politician who first went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as Swedish Minister for Energy Business and Industry |
| Patrice Caine | CEO of Thales, Bilderberg |
| Nadia Calviño | President of the European Investment Bank. Bilderberg/2024. |
| Henri de Castries | "French President of Bilderberg" |
| Jack Chambers | First went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as Irish Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation. |
| François-Philippe Champagne | Canadian Bilderberger politician, lawyer |
| Jack Clark | Co-Founder & Head of Policy of AI company Anthropic PBC. First went to the Bilderberg in 2025. |
| Pablo Hernández de Cos | Spanish central banker |
| Kate Crawford | First went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as Professor and Senior Principal Researcher, USC and Microsoft Research |
| Christopher Donahue | Commanding general of United States Army Europe and Africa who first went to the Bilderberg in 2025. |
| Paschal Donohoe | Irish Finance Minister who attended several Bilderberg meetings. |
| Mathias Döpfner | "Non-Jewish Zionist" CEO of Axel Springer SE, member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and other transatlantic networks such as Atlantik-Brücke. Became a billionaire after receiving gift from elderly widow. WEF GLT 2001 |
| Nicholas Eberstadt | Involved in a lot of deep state think tanks and planning committees. |
| Daniel Ek | Swedish billionaire, founded Spotify and Neko Health, went to his first Bilderberg in 2024. |
| Börje Ekholm | Wallenberg Sphere businessman, succeeded fellow Bilderberger Marcus Wallenberg as CEO of Investor AB. Then CEO of Ericsson. |
| Øyvind Eriksen | Norwegian attorney and head of industry. Crony of billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke. |
| Stefano Feltri | Deep state connected Italian journalist. |
| Willem-Alexander Ferdinand | Dutch royalty. Bilderberg |
| Jane Fraser | Appointed CEO of Citigroup in March 2021. Attended Bilderberg/2024 |
| Chrystia Freeland | "A bit of a living parody of everything wrong with the detached technocratic neoliberal order" |
| Thomas Friedman | CFR, TLC, two Bilderbergs |
| Alexander Gabuev | Russian academic in American deep state employ, researching the Sino-Russia relationship. Attended the 2024 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Kristina Hammer | First Bilderberg in 2025 as President of the Salzburg Music Festival |
| Kevin Harrington | Minion of Peter Thiel who was placed in the National Security Council in 2017, and again in 2025. Attended Bilderberg/2024 |
| Demis Hassabis | Dialled into a SAGE meeting at the request of Dominic Cummings. First Bilderberg in 2015 |
| Connie Hedegaard | Danish politician, multi-Bilderberger |
| Rebeccah Heinrichs | First went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute |
| Anne Heraty | First went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald ana IBEC |
| Jussi Herlin | WEF YGL 2023 who first went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as vice chair of the KONE corporation |
| Mellody Hobson | president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, wife of filmmaker George Lucas |
| ... further results | |
References
- ↑ https://bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2025/participants-2025
- ↑ https://www.radio4all.net/program/118718
- ↑ https://themindness.substack.com/p/elite-capture-and-european-self-destruction
- ↑ Note that due to missing data, the WEF meeting count is likely an underestimate in many cases.
