Dialog/2022

 Dialog/2022

Date	1 December 2022 - 4 December 2022
Location	The Ritz Carlton Bacara,  Santa Barbara,  California,  USA
Description	The 2022 meeting of a secretive, invite-only network founded by Peter Thiel.
Participants	Susan Athey, Pierpaolo Barbieri, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, Henning Beck, Piraye Beim, Sarah Bond, Peter Brown, Martin Chavez, Stephanie Cohen, Stephen Cohen (Palantir), Tyler Cowen, Lee Cronin, Gray Davis, Daniel Diermeier, Jorge Elorza, Oren Etzioni, Kristen Fortney, Tulsi Gabbard, Matthew Gentzkow, Lisa Gevelber, Anneka Gupta, Richard Haass, Peggy Hamburg, Auren Hoffman, Bob Jain, David Kamenetzky, Neal Katyal, Tarō Kōno, Eliot Lee, Lisa Lewin, Harald Mahrer, Sigal Mandelker, Travis May, Johnnie Moore, Pete Muller, Robert Nelsen, Grover Norquist, Şafak Pavey, Zach Perret, Steve Pinker, Michelle Rempel Garner, Helen Riley, Bob Rubin, Gretchen Rubin, Tod Sacerdoti, Gustavo Sapoznik, Jessica Schell, Tara Schuster, Alexander Schütz, Jessica Scorpio, Ali Siddiqui, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Jens Spahn, Bret Stephens, Lord Simon Stevens, Nicholas Thompson, Tom Tugendhat, Sunayna Tuteja, David Wallerstein, David Wolpe, Jake Wood, Luhan Yang, Marco Zappacosta

A list of people who attended the 2022 Dialog "a secretive, invite-only network" founded by Peter Thiel. The group met in The Ritz Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara, California December 1-4, 2022. This is the only known meeting.

Activities

According to the invite, "There are no speeches or panels—only many moderated breakout discussions for 8-12 participants. Everything is 100% off-the-record. The agenda is curated based on your interests. (And, we optimize for introverts—no small talk.)"

Participants

• Susan Athey – Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Board Director, Expedia Group, LendingClub. Palo Alto
• Pierpaolo Barbieri – Founder, Ualá. Executive Director, Greenmantle. Buenos Aires / New York
• Kelly Bayer Rosmarin – CEO, Optus. Sydney
• Henning Beck – Neuroscientist & Author. Frankfurt
• Piraye Beim – Founder & CEO, Celmatix. New York
• Sarah Bond – Corporate VP, Xbox, Microsoft. Seattle
• Peter Brown – CEO, Renaissance Technologies. Washington, D.C.
• Martin Chavez – Vice Chairman & Partner, Sixth Street Partner. Fmr. CFO and CIO, Goldman Sachs. New York
• Stephanie Cohen – Global Co-Head, Consumer & Wealth Management Division , Goldman Sachs. Dallas / New York
• Stephen Cohen – Co-Founder & EVP, Palantir Technologies. San Francisco
• Tyler Cowen – Chair of Economics & General Director, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Author, Marginal Revolution. Washington, D.C.
• Lee Cronin – Founder & CEO, Chemify. Regius Professor, Chemistry, University of Glasgow. Glasgow
• Gray Davis – Of Counsel, Loeb & Loeb. Fmr. Governor, California. Los Angeles
• Daniel Diermeier – Chancellor, Vanderbilt University. Nashville
• Jorge Elorza – Mayor, Providence, RI. Providence, RI
• Oren Etzioni – CEO, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Seattle
• Kristen Fortney – CEO, BIOAGE. San Francisco
• Tulsi Gabbard – Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Reserves. Fmr. Congresswoman (D-HI), U.S. House of Representatives. Honolulu
• Matthew Gentzkow – Professor of Economics, Stanford University. Awardee, John Bates Clark Medal. San Francisco
• Lisa Gevelber – CMO, Google. San Francisco
• Anneka Gupta – Chief Product Officer, Rubrik. Board Member, Tinuiti. San Francisco, CA
• Richard Haass – President, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr. Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State. New York
• Peggy Hamburg – VP, Bio Program and Policy, Nuclear Threat Initiative. Fmr. President, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fmr. Commissioner, U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Washington, D.C.
• Auren Hoffman – CEO, SafeGraph. Founder & Fmr. CEO, LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). Chairman, Dialog. San Francisco
• Bob Jain – CIO, Millennium Management. Founder, Jain Family Institute. New York
• David Kamenetzky – Investor, K4 Family Investments, Founding Chairman, Alfred Landecker Foundation. Washington, D.C.
• Neal Katyal – Partner & Supreme Court Practice Leader, Hogan Lovells. Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown University. Fmr. Acting U.S. Solicitor General. Washington, D.C.
• Tarō Kōno – Minister of Administrative Reform and Regulatory Reform, Japan. Fmr. Minister of Defense, Japan. Tokyo
• Eliot Lee – President, KGMLab. Fmr. Member of Congress, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea. Seoul
• Lisa Lewin – CEO, General Assembly. New York
• Harald Mahrer – President, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber & the Austrian National Bank. Vienna
• Sigal Mandelker – General Partner, Ribbit Capital. Advisor, Chainalysis. Fmr. Under Secretary, Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of Treasury. New York City
• Travis May – Co-Founder & CEO, Datavant. Fmr. CEO, LiveRamp. San Francisco
• Johnnie Moore – Founder & CEO, The KAIROS Company. President, The Congress of Christian Leaders. Washington, D.C.
• Pete Muller – Founder & CEO, PDT Partners. Singer-Songwriter. Santa Barbara
• Robert Nelsen – Co-Founder & Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners. San Francisco
• Grover Norquist – President, Americans for Tax Reform. Washington, D.C.
• Şafak Pavey – Senior Advisor, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Fmr. Member & Deputy Speaker of Turkish Parliament. Geneva
• Zach Perret – Co-Founder & CEO, Plaid. San Francisco
• Steve Pinker – Professor, Psychology, Harvard University. Author, Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature. Boston
• Michelle Rempel Garner – Member of Parliament & Shadow Minister, Natural Resources, Canada. Vice-Chair, Standing Committee on Natural Resources. Ottawa
• Helen Riley – CFO & COO, X. Palo Alto
• Bob Rubin – Senior Counselor, Centerview Partners. Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. New York
• Gretchen Rubin – Podcaster & Author, The Happiness Project New York
• Tod Sacerdoti – Founder & CEO, Pipedream. General Partner, Flex Capital. San Francisco
• Gustavo Sapoznik – Founder & CEO, ASAPP. Bozeman, MT
• Jessica Schell – Executive Vice President & General Manager, Film, Warner Bros. Los Angeles
• Tara Schuster – Author, Buy Yourself The F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, From Someone Who’s Been There. Fmr. VP, Talent and Development, Comedy Central. Los Angeles
• Alexander Schütz – Principal Partner, Freie Internationale Sparkasse S.A. Founder & CEO, C-Quadrat Investment Group. Vienna
• Jessica Scorpio – Co-Founder & Chairman, Getaround. San Francisco
• Ali Siddiqui – Ambassador at Large for Foreign Investment, Pakistan. Fmr. Ambassador to the United States, Pakistan. Islamabad / London
• Anne-Marie Slaughter – CEO, New America. Professor, Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. Washington, D.C.
• Jens Spahn – Federal Minister of Health, Germany. Member, German Bundestag. Berlin
• Bret Stephens – Opinion Columnist & Associate Editor, The New York Times. New York
• Lord Simon Stevens – CEO, National Health Service, England. Fmr. President & EVP, UnitedHealth Group. London
• Nicholas Thompson – CEO, The Atlantic. New York
• Tom Tugendhat – Member of Parliament, United Kingdom. Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons. London
• Sunayna Tuteja – Chief Innovation Officer, Federal Reserve System. Washington, D.C.
• David Wallerstein – Chief eXploration Officer, Tencent. Palo Alto
• David Wolpe – Rabbi, Sinai Temple. Los Angeles
• Jake Wood – Co-Founder & CEO, Team Rubicon. Los Angeles / New York
• Luhan Yang – CEO, Qihan Biotech. Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, eGenesis. Boston
• Marco Zappacosta – Co-Founder & CEO, Thumbtack. San Francisco

The list of confirmed participants was leaked by Andrew Gelman, a professor of political science at Columbia University, who declined to attend.

 

Known Participants

13 of the 63 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Susan Athey	US economist, one time Bilderberger
Tulsi Gabbard	Former CFR member and WEF YGL Class of 2015
Richard Haass	Bilderberger, CFR President
Margaret Hamburg	US physician and expert in pandemic preparedness. Board of the Council on Foreign Relations.Operation Dark Winter, Clade X, GAVI, CFR, Wellcome Trust,Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation
Sigal Mandelker	Action United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury 2017-2018
Robert Nelsen	Founder of National Resilience, Inc., which launched in 2020 with $800 million in capital, and signed a deal to produce hundreds of millions of doses of Moderna's mRNA vaccine
Grover Norquist	US political lobbyist
Şafak Pavey	The first disabled woman in the Turkish parliament. Worked many years with NGOs in Iran and with Shirin Ebadi.
Anne-Marie Slaughter	Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department under Hillary Clinton. Important in the introduction of the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect
Jens Spahn	Single Bilderberger German Minister of Health, Pharma lobbyist & suspected deep state tool
Bret Stephens	Neoconservative writer at the New York Times
Tom Tugendhat	Suspected UK deep state functionary, MP, Bilderberg 2019, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, floated de facto mandatory Covid-19 vaccination in November 2020.
Luhan Yang	Scientist working on xenotransplantation, cross-species transplants. Berggruen Institute. World Economic Forum Young Leader.

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