European Round Table of Industrialists
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The European Round Table of Industrialists, (ERT), is a lobby group in the European Union consisting of some 50 European industrial leaders working to strengthen the political position of big business in Europe. The group works at both national and European levels, and has been especially successful in influencing the making of EU policies.
The roots of the European Round Table of Industrialists date back to the early 1980s. At the initiative of Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, the CEO of Volvo, 17 European businessmen[1] met in the Paris boardroom of Volvo on 6 and 7 April 1983. They envisioned to create an organisation, which would be able to convey its message about the state of the economy to the European political leaders.
The meeting in Paris was attended by Pehr G. Gyllenhammar (Volvo), Karl Beurle (Thyssen), Carlo De Benedetti (Olivetti), Curt Nicolin (ASEA), Harry Gray (United Technologies), John Harvey-Jones (ICI), Wolfgang Seelig (Siemens), Umberto Agnelli (Fiat), Peter Baxendell (Shell), Olivier Lecerf (Lafarge), José Bidegain (Cie de St Gobain), Wisse Dekker (Philips), Antoine Riboud (BSN), Bernard Hanon (Renault), Louis von Planta (Ciba-Geigy) and Helmut Maucher (Nestlé). Both François-Xavier Ortoli and Étienne Davignon from the European Commission attended the meeting.
From early on, ERT policy supported EU enlargement. It promoted and often led business dialogues between the EU and business circles in the US and in Japan as well as in developing countries.
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Current Members (2019)
As can be expected from such an exclusive lobbying group[2], there is a significant overlap with Bilderberg. Remember that there has been a lot of overlap over the years including now retired members of both networks. (Active/blue links to other Wikispooks pages essentially mean they have been to one or more Bilderberg conferences).
Chairman
AB Volvo Sweden
Vice-Chairmen
HEINEKEN The Netherlands
Titan Cement Greece
Past Chairman
Air Liquide France
Members
Norsk Hydro Norway
L'Oréal France
MOL Hungary
Telefónica Spain
AkzoNobel The Netherlands
Sonae Portugal
Barilla Group Italy
Royal Dutch Shell The Netherlands
BASF Germany
Nestlé Switzerland
Saint-Gobain France
ENGIE France
Centrica United Kingdom
Rolls-Royce United Kingdom
CIR Italy
Eni Italy
voestalpine Austria
KONE Finland
Ericsson Sweden
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Switzerland
Iberdrola Spain
Capgemini France
Deutsche Telekom Germany
Royal Philips The Netherlands
Inditex Spain
Rio Tinto United Kingdom
LafargeHolcim Switzerland
AstraZeneca United Kingdom
Solvay Belgium
Siemens Germany
thyssenkrupp Germany
BMW Group Germany
Proximus Belgium
Umicore Belgium
BP United Kingdom
AB Volvo Sweden
SAP Germany
Wolters Kluwer The Netherlands
Michelin France
ArcelorMittal United Kingdom
Merck Group Germany
Ferrovial Spain
Total France
Leonardo Italy
Vodafone Group United Kingdom
Orange France
Techint Group of Companies Italy
Sabanci Holding Turkey
Renault France
Nokia Finland
A.P. Møller-Mærsk Denmark
Smurfit Kappa Group Ireland
E.ON Germany
Henkel Germany
Investor AB Sweden
Known members
96 of the 225 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Torvild Aakvaag | Single Bilderberg Director General of Norsk Hydro |
| Gianni Agnelli | Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs |
| Umberto Agnelli | Italian business magnate with multiple deep state connections including the Bilderberg Steering committee. |
| Percy Barnevik | Bilderberg Steering committee member in the Wallenberg Sphere |
| Rodolfo de Bendetti | Double Bilderberg Italian deep state connected businessman |
| Carlo De Benedetti | |
| Ben van Beurden | Penta Bilderberger, attended the WEF/Annual Meeting/2020, Shell CEO, European Round Table of Industrialists |
| Vincent Bolloré | French industrialist, businessman, media owner and billionaire. grandmother a spy. Started his career at the [Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild |
| Jean-François van Boxmeer | Belgian Bilderberg businessman, regular at WEF AGMs, Heineken CEO 2005-2020 |
| Peter Brabeck-Letmathe | Nestlé executive who attended the 2011 Bilderberg. Wants to privatize and charge for all water in the world. |
| Svein Richard Brandtzæg | Member of the Bilderberg Steering committee. |
| Thierry Breton | French politician and leader of large corporations, briefly at Rothschild & Cie Banque. WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1998. From 2019 European Commissioner implementing censorship. |
| Martin Brudermüller | German Bilderberger businessman, WEF AGM habit, CEO of BASF since 2018. Predicted EU ban on Russian gas imports would destroy the German economy. |
| Antony Burgmans | Dutch businessman |
| Pierre-André de Chalendar | Double Bilderberg French businessman. |
| Vittorio Colao | Bilderberger Vodafone/CEO who was given charge of the Italian COVID Lockdown |
| Bertrand Collomb | Connected French businessman. 13 Bilderbergs. |
| Gerhard Cromme | Deep state connected German businessman visitor to the Bilderberg 2000 |
| Étienne Davignon | Belgian deep politician, EU commissioner, Bilderberg chairman, Egmont Institute president |
| Ian Davis | English businessman associated with McKinsey & Company. Attended Bilderberg/2013. |
| Wisse Dekker | Philips CEO 1982-1986. From 1988 to 1992, he chaired the European Round Table of Industrialists. |
| Casimir Ehrnrooth | Finnish financier, Bilderberg 1989. One son also a Bilderberger |
| Henrik Ehrnrooth | Big money second generation Finnish Bilderberger |
| Börje Ekholm | Wallenberg Sphere businessman, succeeded fellow Bilderberger Marcus Wallenberg as CEO of Investor AB. Then CEO of Ericsson. |
| John Elkann | Italian/US billionaire businessman with heavy Bilderberg habit. 21st Century Council, European Round Table of Industrialists |
| Christoph Franz | Lufthansa CEO, One Bilderberg, called for mandation of COVID-19 vaccines in April 2021. |
| Paolo Fresco | Italian Bilderberg businessman. Ex Fiat Chairman |
| Raul Gardini | ERTI scandal ridden Italian businessman who "died by a dubious suicide" |
| Alain Gomez | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Group when he attended the 1983 Bilderberg |
| Pehr G. Gyllenhammar | Swedish CEO, European Round Table of Industrialists, Banque Rothschild, with deep state ties |
| John Harvey-Jones | UK spook, media operative and businessman. Participated in the 1983 foundation meeting of European Round Table of Industrialists |
| Paul Hermelin | French double Bilderberger businessman |
| Robert Horton | UK businessman who attended the 1990 Bilderberg as BP CEO. |
| Jukka Härmälä | One of the key players in the Finnish economy. As CEO arranged for one of the largest and most unsuccessful acquisitions in Finnish economic history, with a loss of EUR 5 billion. He also enjoys the largest pension in Finland. |
| Timotheus Höttges | German telecom executive |
| Pablo Isla | Chairman and CEO of Inditex (Zara) the largest clothes corporation in the world. |
| Daniel Janssen | Bilderberg Steering committee Belgian business leader |
| Leif Johansson | Swedish businessman and son of Bilderberger. Attended 2 successive Bilderbergs. AstraZeneca Chairman. |
| Ilham Kadri | Big Chem executive who attended the 2024 Bilderberg conference. |
| Joe Kaeser | German businessman Bilderberger |
| Kari Kairamo | A Finnish businessman who reportedly hung himself, something his company, Nokia initially lied about. |
| Jak Kamhi | Turkish Bilderberger businessman |
| Karlheinz Kaske | CEO of Siemens AG for 11 years. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1980s |
| Klaus Kleinfeld | US/German businessman. Bilderberg steering committee, CFR, ERTI |
| Gerard J. Kleisterlee | Dutch businessman, Tafelronde |
| Thomas Leysen | Bilderberg Steering Committee Member. Trilateral Commission. |
| Klaus Liesen | One of the ten most powerful "grey eminences" in the German economy. Bilderberg/1981 |
| Helge Lund | chairman of BP, 2019 Bilderberg, failing upwards |
| Martin Lundstedt | President and CEO of car and truck manufacturer Volvo Group since 2015. He attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting. |
| Ian MacGregor | Scottish/US businessman chaired British Steel Corporation 1980-83, National Coal Board 1983-86 |
| ... further results | |
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