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The 52nd Munich Security Conference took place from 12-14 February 2016.
Contents
Agenda
12 February 2016
- 3:00pm Welcome Remarks - Wolfgang Ischinger
- 3:05 Opening Statements + Q & A - Ursula von der Leyen, Jean-Yves Le Drian
- 3:45 Special Address - Adbullah II bin Al Hussein
- Intermission
- 4:45 Panel Discussion "Daeshing" Terror and Safeguarding Liberties - James Clapper, Robert Hannigan, Robert Antonius Cornelis Berthlee, Gerhard Conrad, Moderator: Richard Haass
- 5:45 Comment "Daeshing" Terror and the Role of the Internet - Vint Cerf
- 5:50 Coffee Break
- 6:15 Refuge Refused? The EU and the Migrant Crisis Statements + Q & A - Federica Mogherini, Mohammad Javad Zarif
- 6:45 Panel Discussion - Peter Altmeier, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Bert Koenders, Paolo Gentiloni, William Lacy Swing, Moderator: Christiane Amanpour
- 6:15 Trade, Prosperity and Security Panel Discussion - Michael Froman, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Friedrich Merz, Mauro Vieira, Toomas Ilves, Moderator: Philip Stephens
- 7:45: Reception hosated by Dieter Reiter
- 10:15 Night Owl Session - The Plot Sickens - The Health-Security Nexus - Joanne Liu, Christopher Elias, Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, David M. Rodriguez, James L. Jones, Stefan Oschmann, Rudiger Krech, Moderator: Robin Niblett
13 February 2016
Boundless Crises, Reckless Spoilers, Helpless Guardians? The State of the International Order
- 9:00am Opening Statement - Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- 9:10 Opening Statement + Q & A - Jens Stoltenberg
- 9:30 Prime Minsters' Debate - Manuel Valls, Dmitry Medvedev, Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger
- 10:10 Coffee Break
- 10:30 Presidential Debate - Petro Poroschenko, Sauli Niininsto, Dalia Grybauskaite, Andrzej Duda, Martin Schulz, Moderator: Ian Bremmer
- 11:45 Statement - John Kerry
- 12:05 Foreign Ministers' Debate - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Sergey Lavrov, Philip Hammond, Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger
- 1:00 Lunch Break
- 3:00 Panel Discussion Doubling Down? China and the International Order(s) - Fu Ying, Kevin Rudd, Ng Eng Hen, Robert Corker, Moderator: Sebastian Heilmann
- 4:30 Coffee Break
- 5:00 Panel Discussion Between Reassurance and Reengagement? The Future of NATO - Klaus Iohannes, Erna Solberg, Michael Fallon, Peter Hultqvist, Witold Waszczykowski, Petr Pavel, R. Nicholas Burns
- 5:00 Panel Discussion Climate and Energy Security. Is The Heat Still On? - Ilham Aliyev, Maros Sefkovic, Sheldon Whitehouse, Oliver Bäte, Kumi Naidoo, Moderator: Melinda Crane
- 5:00 Panel Discussion Towards Further Euro-Atlantic Integration? - George Soros, Gjorge Ivanov, Borut Pahor, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Milo Djukanovik, Giorgi Kvirikashvvili, Moderator: Sebastian Kurz
- 6:30 Break
- 8:00 State Dinner - Horst Seehofer, Jan Eliasson, Laurent Fabius
- 10:30 Night Cap Session The Future of Warfare The Race With Machines - Rose Gottemoeller, Alexander Grushko, Thomas Rid, James Stavridis, Kenneth Roth, Moderator: Espen Barth Eide
14 February 2016
Africa: Keeping P(e)ace
- 9:00am Opening Statement - Kofi Annan
- 9:15 Commment - Salil Shetty
- 9:25 Panel Discussion - Hasan Mohamud, Youssef Amrani, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Smail Chergui, Chairman: Olusegun Obasanjo
Human Plight - Out Of Sight
- 9:00 Opening Statement - Fatou Bensouda
- 9:10 Panel Discussion - Tammam Salam, Ine Eriksen Søreide, Filippo Grandi, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Roula Khalaf, Moderator: Jane Harman
- 10:30 Coffee Break
Growing Rifts, Power Shifts? The New Geopolitics of The Middle East
- 11:00 Opening Statement John McCain
- 11:15 Panel Discussion - Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Norbert Rottgen, John McCain, Riad Hijab, Moderator: Lyse Doucet
- 12:15 Final Comment - Moshe Yaalon
- 12:30 Closing Remarks - Wolfgang Ischinger
Known Participants
317 of the 566 participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Stéphane Abrial | French military leader with lots of US ties, MSC. |
| Paul Achleitner | Austrian banker businessman with deep state connections. |
| Ilse Aigner | German politician |
| Peter Altmaier | German politician who was Head of the Chancellery 2013-2018. |
| Yukiya Amano | Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency |
| Christiane Amanpour | UK/Iranian journalist on CNN, uncritically promoted COVID-19 vaccine uptake |
| Kofi Annan | Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997-2006 now working for Macro Advisory Partners |
| Niels Annen | German politician who attends a lot of spooky conferences |
| Rainer Arnold | German politician who attended the MSC meetings from 2009 to 2017 |
| Jean Asselborn | Luxembourgish politician, |
| Stefan Aust | German journalist |
| Stephanie Babst | NATO blogger, visitor to MSC conferences |
| Thomas Bagger | ECFR member, MSC regular |
| Dora Bakoyannis | Double Bilderberg Greek politician in well-connected family. Daughter and sister of Prime Minsters. |
| Hans-Peter Bartels | German SPD politician, regular at the MSC |
| Fatou Bensouda | Attended at least 7 Munich Security Conferences as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court |
| Roland Berger | German entrepreneur and possible deep state actor |
| Rob Bertholee | Former Director General of the AIVD. |
| Carl Bildt | Swedish deep state actor, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Active in an impressive number of deep state related commissions & conferences. |
| Manfred Bischoff | MSC regular |
| Crispin Blunt | Sandhurst, Le Cercle, MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee |
| Nikolaus von Bomhard | Businessman with a heavy MSC habit |
| Ralf Brauksiepe | German politician |
| Philip Breedlove | Supreme Allied Commander Europe |
| Ian Bremmer | President and founder of the Eurasia Group. Heavy MSC habit, CFR, TLC, YGL 2007, Bilderberg 2007 |
| Børge Brende | Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017- |
| Elmar Brok | lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular |
| Des Browne | Bought nuclear missiles as UK Secretary of State for Defence, campaigns for nuclear disarmament after leaving power. |
| Christian Bruch | President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Energy AG and President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Energy |
| R. Nicholas Burns | US Ambassador to NATO 2001-2005, plenty of other deep state connected roles |
| William Burns | Poly Bilderberger US diplomat, US/Deputy Secretary of State |
| Oliver Bäte | German businessman with supranational deep state connections |
| Menzies Campbell | Leader of the Liberal Democrats 2006-2007, Kicked a heavy MSC habit in 2020 |
| Michael Carpenter | Member of the Atlantic Council |
| Vint Cerf | A father of the internet as part of military research. Later evangelist for Google. |
| Margaret Chan | The WHO Director General who announced the fake "2009 swine flu pandemic", a failed predecessor of the Covid-19 global "health" agenda. |
| John Chipman | DSO with heavy MSC habit and WEF AGM habits |
| Derek Chollet | US official with Deep State connections |
| Jacobus Cilliers | 2008 Rhodes scholar |
| James Clapper | Senior US spook |
| Roger Cohen | US journalist |
| William Cohen | United States Secretary of Defense 1997-2001, various deep state connections |
| Robert Cooper | UK diplomat with a string of interesting roles. "One of the top 100 "public intellectuals" in the world"... |
| Tom Cotton | The most Hawkish senator in US Congress. Elected, funded and guided by AIPAC, advocates war crimes, jailing kids and aunts for "corruption of blood". Tried very infamously to sabotage the Iran Nuclear Deal. |
| Nelson Cunningham | Well-connected Kissinger associate |
| James W. Davis | Heavy MSC habit |
| Oleg Deripaska | Russian billionaire, WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow |
| Hans-Lothar Domröse | Senior German Army officer. He is believed to have visited Le Cercle in 1983. |
| Lyse Doucet | Canadian journalist, Chatham House, heavy MSC habit |
| Jean-Yves Le Drian | As French Foreign Minister promised he would provide proof "in the coming days" of Syrian government using poison gas. We are still waiting. |
| ... further results | |
Known Witnesses
38 of the 168 of the witnesses already have pages here:
| Witness | Description |
|---|---|
| Badr Abdelatty | Egyptian career diplomat |
| Dmitri Alperovitch | Spooky businessman |
| Jurij Aston | |
| Henning Bartels | |
| Christine Beerli | Swiss politician who attended her first Bilderberg in 2018 as Vice President of the Red Cross. In 2024 signed a manifesto to "update" the 400 years of Swiss neutrality, instead aligning with NATO and the EU. |
| Thorsten Benner | Several MSC visits |
| Ronen Bergman | Israeli journalist who published Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel's targeted killings - in reality a very flattering limited hangout. |
| Benedetta Berti | |
| Christophe Bigot | French diplomat and spook. A fierce ’promoter’ of the franco-israeli diplomatic relations, he has held senior positions in the intelligence service DGSE and the ministry's Africa department. |
| James Bindenagel | US Chargé d'affaires to Germany from 1996 to 1997, |
| Peter Castenfelt | |
| David Chinn | McKinsey senior partner who works with public- and private-sector organizations out of Tel Aviv |
| Rolf Clement | |
| Judy Dempsey | Irish journalist Alphen Group member |
| William Drozdiak | Editor with a heavy Brussels Forum and MSC habit |
| Trine Flockhart | MSC visitor |
| Ulf Gartzke | HISF and MSC habits |
| Matthias Gebauer | German |
| August Hanning | Former BND chief |
| Ina Heusgen | ECFR member diplomat |
| Michael Inacker | Businessman with deep state ties |
| Markus Kaim | German Marshall Fund |
| Steffen Kampeter | German politician and lobbyist |
| Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff | Vice President and Executive Director of the Berlin office at the German Marshall Fund, attender of a lot of deep state events. The Alphen Group |
| Antje Leendertse | Spooky German diplomat |
| Michael Georg Link | A German politician who picked up a heavy MSC habit in 2015 |
| Fyodor Lukyanov | MSC connected editor in the European Leadership Network |
| Andrij Melnyk | |
| Dambisa Moyo | Goldman Sachs, World Bank, double Bilderberger, WEF Young Global Leader, Baroness |
| Dietmar Müller-Elmau | German with a heavy Brussels Forum habit, also appears at the Munich Security Conference, ran the hotel that hosted the 2015 G7 summit |
| Barry Pavel | Senior Vice President and Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security |
| Gundbert Scherf | Heavy MSC habit went full blown in 2018. Attended his first Bilderberg in 2025 as co-founder and co-CEO of military AI company Helsing |
| Gregor Peter Schmitz | ACG YL 2007 Berlin Bureau Chief for the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche |
| Alison Smale | |
| Andris Spruds | European Leadership Network/Young Leaders Latvian Defense Minister |
| Jan Techau | Spooky German academic. Co-author of the study Führungsmacht Deutschland |
| Sylke Tempel | German journalist and writer |
| Jasper Wieck | ACG YL 1999 with a penchant for MSCs |
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