Johan Nykopp

Johan Nykopp   (diplomat)
Born	27 May 1906 Le Vésinet, France
Died	28 April 1993 (Age 86) Helsinki
Nationality	Finnish
10 times Bilderberger

Johan A. Nykopp was a Finnish diplomat and long time Bilderberger. He became the CEO of the Finnish Employers' Union and then Managing Director of Oy Tampella Ab from 1962 to 1972.

Career

J.K. Paasikivi and his team returning from the Moscow theater hostage crisis on October 16, 1939. On the left, Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen, in the center of Paasikivi and his right Johan Nykopp and Colonel Aladár Paasonen.

Nykopp served for a long time diplomat in the 1930s in the Soviet Union, first as a delegation assistant in Moscow from 1931 to 1935 and later as a Finnish Consul to Leningrad from 1935 to 1937. In February-March 1939, Nykopp was a member of the Finnish trade delegation.

In the autumn of 1939, Nykopp participated in the Moscow negotiations before the Winter War with J. K. Paasikivi as secretary to the Finnish delegation. After the war years, Nykopp served as Deputy Head of the Department for Trade Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1945 to 1947 and as Head of Division until 1951. Nykopp returned from the Moscow trade negotiations on February 24, 1950. He was replaced by Uuno Takki.

In the 1950s he served as Finnish Envoy to the United States from 1951 to 1954 (Ambassador from 1954 to 1958) and to Cuba from 1951 to 1958 and to Colombia from 1954 to 1958 and to Venezuela from 1954 to 1958, and to Mexico from 1951 to 1958.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1962	18 May 1962	20 May 1962	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The 11th Bilderberg meeting and the first one in Sweden.
Bilderberg/1963	29 March 1963	31 March 1963	France Cannes Hotel Martinez	The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
Bilderberg/1964	20 March 1964	22 March 1964	US Virginia Williamsburg	A year after this meeting, the post of GATT/Director-General was set up, and given Eric Wyndham White, who attended the '64 meeting. Several subsequent holders have been Bilderberg insiders, only 2 are not known to have attended the group.
Bilderberg/1965	2 April 1965	4 April 1965	Italy Villa d'Este	The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy
Bilderberg/1966	25 March 1966	27 March 1966	Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof	Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment.
Bilderberg/1967	31 March 1967	2 April 1967	St John's College (Cambridge) UK	Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge)
Bilderberg/1968	26 April 1968	28 April 1968	Canada Mont Tremblant	The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada
Bilderberg/1969	9 May 1969	11 May 1969	Denmark Hotel Marienlyst Elsinore	The 18th Bilderberg meeting, with 85 participants
Bilderberg/1970	17 April 1970	19 April 1970	Switzerland Hotel Quellenhof Bad Ragaz	the 19th Bilderberg meeting, in Switzerland.
Bilderberg/1972	21 April 1972	23 April 1972	Belgium Hotel La Reserve Knokke	The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission.