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 41 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 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 | 5 | 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 | France | 2 | 2 | "The European hope for AI", who with initial funding from Eric Schmidt became co-founder and managing director of the company Mistral AI. Often cited in debates on AI policy. Attended the 2024 and 2025 Bilderberg meetings. |
| 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 | 10 | 10 | Norwegian Bilderberger, ex PM, Secretary General of NATO. |
| Alexander Stubb | Finland | 4 | 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 | US 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 | French businesswoman and deep state operative who has been the right arm of billionaire François Pinault for over 30 years. Both a Young Leader and a board member of the French-American Foundation, she was President of Le Siècle 2017-2019, member of Institut Aspen France, the Trilateral Commission, and Bilderberg steering committee. |
| José Manuel Barroso | WEF GLT 1993 Portuguese deep state actor whose political career seems to have received a significant help from the CIA. Starting as a Maoist activist at the time when the CIA's Frank Carlucci was ambassador, he - unusually if he was a genuine red activist - received scholarships to Geneva and Georgetown University. Made Prime Minister and participant in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, before he was placed as President of the European Commission (2004-2014), member of Bilderberg Steering committee, and in 2021 CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). He also received a well paid job as non-executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Member of the Trilateral Commission. |
| 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 led a committee planning for deregulation of the Polish economy, envisaging a similar process for the EU. He then attended the 2025 Bilderberg meeting. |
| 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 tech billionaire and investor in AI healthcare and military drone producer Helsing. Went to his first Bilderberg in 2024, and in 2025 together with Gundbert Scherf, also from Helsing, when a topic was Defence Innovation and Resilience |
| 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 | German businesswoman and cultural administrator who discussed Europe's cultural role and relevance at Harvard Kennedy School of Government in January 2025, then attended her first Bilderberg in June the same year. |
| 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.
