The 1001 Club

The 1001 Club
The 1001 Club
Formation	1970
Founder	• Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld; • Anton Rupert
Type	secret society
Interest of	Joël van der Reijden
Membership	• Agha Hasan Abedi; • Robert Adeane; • Giovanni Agnelli; • Susanna Agnelli; • Umberto Agnelli; • Sheikh Ali Ahmed; • Max Aitken; • Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart; • Mohammed Al-Naki; • James William Alsdorf; • Robert Orville Anderson; • Walter H. Annenberg; • Alexander Baring; • Gavin Astor; • Vincent Astor; • William Astor; • George F. Baker Jr; • John Fleming Ball; • David Barran; • Herbert Batliner; • Mrs. Kenneth K. Bechtel; • Stephen D. Bechtel; • John Russell; • Berthold Beitz; • Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans; • Mumtaz Ali Bhutto; • Sheikh Salem Bin Laden; • Alf R. Bjercke; • Brion Battin Black; • Conrad Black; • Pierre Blaton; • Therese Blaton; • Instone Bloomfield; • Louis Mortimer Bloomfield; • Rene Boel; • Sue Erpf van de Bovenkamp; • David K. E. Bruce; • Mrs. James Bruce; • George Burton; • August Anheuser Busch Jr.; • Aubrey Leland Oakes Buxton; • Christopher Cadbury; • Peter Cadbury; • Juan Carlos; • Vittorio Cini; • Vishwasrao D. Chowgule; • Gustavo Cisneros; • Bertrand Collomb; • George R. Cooley; • Joseph Cullman III; • Philip Kingsland Crowe; • Michel David-Weill; • John H. H. Davis; • Charles De Pauw; • Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev; • C. Douglas Dillon; • Eric Drake; • Frederick Anthony Hamilton Wills; • Val Duncan; • Barry East; • John Eastwood; • Shafi Lawal Edu; • Abayomi Edu; • Ademola Edu; • Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard; • Gladys d'Erlanger; • Karl-Wilhelm von Finckenstein; • Ferdinand von Galen; • Ronald A. Irish; • Henry Ford II; • Manuel Fraga-Iribarne; • Egmond Frommelt; • Kenneth Ping-fan Fung; • Kenneth H. C. Fung; • Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej; • S. Gerald Goldsmith; • Basil P. Goulandris; • Charles M. Grace; • J. Peter Grace; • Lew Grade; • John Grimston; • Francis Wilfred de Guingand; • Baron Alain de Gunzburg; • Jean-Louis de Gunzberg; • Clinton Raymond Gutermuth; • Pehr Gustaf Gyllenhammar; • Stelios Haji-Ioannou; • Charles de Haes; • Francesca von Habsburg; • Mrs. Reza Hakimzadeh; • John W. Hanes Jr.; • Alfred Hartmann; • Mrs. Henry J. Heinz II; • Alfred Herrhausen; • Basil E. Hersov; • R. L. Hersov; • Dirk Hertzog; • Lukas Hoffmann; • Andre Hoffmann; • Nelson Bunker Hunt; • Anders Jahre; • Baron Daniel Janssen; • Thomas V. Jones; • Sheikh Ahmed Juffali; • Joseph Kagan; • Tan Sri A. Nik Kamil; • Kenneth Keith; • Francis L. Kellogg; • Mrs. Geoffrey J. W. Kent; • David J. Keswick; • Henry N.L. Keswick; • Karim Aga Khan; • Sadruddin Aga Khan; • Hussein Aga Khan; • Henry L. Kimelman; • Hugh Kenyon Molesworth Kindersley; • Alexander B. King; • John King; • Shantanurao L. Kirloskar; • Cyril Kleinwort; • Mrs. Ernest G. Kleinwort; • Kenneth Drake Kleinwort; • Richard Drake Kleinwort; • Johannes Kraaijeveld van Hemert; • Friedrich Kristinus; • Philip C. Kwok; • Allen T. Lambert; • Leslie Lavy; • Philip William Bryce Lever; • Leopold Lippens; • Marie Lippens; • Franz Joseph II von Liechtenstein; • Hans Adam Liechtenstein II; • George P. Livanos; • George S. Livanos; • Daniel K. Ludwig; • Louis Luyt; • Carlo von Maffei; • Cyril Magnin; • George W. Mallinckrodt; • Boris Marmor; • Robert Strange McNamara; • Mrs. Constance Mellon; • Paul W. Mellon; • Hans L. Merkle; • Fred C. Meuser; • Emilio Azcárraga Milmo Jr; • Pierre Mirabaud; • David Charles Samuel Montagu; • Guy Reginald Mountfort; • Rafi Muneer; • Peter Munk; • John Dabney Murchison; • Sukum Navapan; • Stavros Niarchos; • Mrs. William A. Nitze; • Tenzing Norgay; • Arthur Norman; • David Mackenzie Ogilvy; • John M. Olin; • Mrs. John M. Olin; • Spencer T. Olin; • Gabrielle von Oppenheim; • Harold F. Oppenheimer; • Nicholas Oppenheimer; • Mrs. Lucius P. Ordway; • Alexander Orlow; • Yue Kong Pao; • Antenor Patino; • Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi; • Edgar G. Parser; • Mrs. Edgar de Picciotto; • Henrik von Platen; • Marcel van Poecke; • Derek W. Pritchard; • William Purves; • Hilmar Reksten; • Michel Relecom; • Robert Burnham Renwick; • Manuchehr Riahi; • Jean Riboud; • David Rockefeller; • Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller; • Laurence S. Rockefeller; • Tibor Imgas Rosenbaum; • Sydney Rothman; • Edmond de Rothschild; • Nadine de Rothschild; • Edmund L. de Rothschild; • Guy de Rothschild; • Anthony Edward Rupert; • Johann Peter Rupert; • Anthonij Edward Rupert; • Andres M. Sada; • Edmond J. Safra; • Lily J. Safra; • Walter Hans Salomon; • Harold Samuel; • Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger; • Ernst Schmidheiny; • Max Schmidheiny; • Stephan Schmidheiny; • Bruno L. Schroder; • Peter Scott; • Mobutu Sese Seko; • Barnett Shine; • Peter von Siemens; • Denis Solvay; • Pierre Solvay; • Sidney Spiro; • Maurice F. Strong; • John B. Sunley; • Ibnu Sutowo; • Julius Tahija; • Walter C. Teagle; • Johannes von Thurn und Taxis; • Heinrich II von Thyssen-Bornemisza; • Georg Thyssen-Bornemisza; • Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza; • Maria Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza; • Sabina Thyssen-Bornemisza; • Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza; • Henry F. Tiarks; • Ravi N. Tikoo; • Juan Antonio Samaranch Torello; • Noah Torno; • Georg Baron von Ullmann; • Georg Baron von Ullmann (2); • Robert L. Vesco; • Edmund H. Vestey; • Marcus Wallenberg Jr.; • Marc Wallenberg; • Peter Wallenberg; • Marcus Wallenberg; • Lew R. Wasserman; • Arthur K. Watson; • Thomas J. Watson Jr.; • Tom Whyte; • Charles A. Werner; • Phillip (Windsor) Mountbatten; • Laurent Wolters; • Ardeshir Zahedi; • Mahnaz Zahedi
	A nature trust started by a billionaire businessman and a co-founder of the Bilderberg Group, which raises funds for the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Official Narrative

The following was taken verbatim (in November 2010) from WWF web site:

"The 1001: A Nature Trust is an endowment fund created in 1971 to provide WWF International with a financial base to maintain a sustainably managed organization. The fund aims to engage influential members of society, those that are able to bring about change in the world, in the conservation activities of WWF.

The idea for the fund came from Dr Anton Rupert, a founding member of WWF; HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands translated the idea into reality by inviting 1000 influential people from around the world to join him in investing in the endowment – hence the name The 1001: A Nature Trust." ^[1]

Problems

Behind the glossy, feel-good image cultivated by its PR people and on display at its Web Site ^[2] lies an altogether different reality.

A 1993 Washington Monthly article hints at it:

"The secret list of members includes a disproportionate percentage of South Africans, all too happy in an era of social banishment to be welcomed into a socially elite society. Other contributors include businessmen with suspect connections, including organized crime, environmentally destructive development, and corrupt African politics. Even an internal report called WWF's approach egocentric and neocolonialist."^[3]

For an in-depth study of this group, including detailed membership lists see the ISGP website:

The 1001 Club - The 1001 Club: Bankers and Raw Materials Executives Striving for a Sustainable Future

References

↑ The 1001: A Nature Trust - A Prestigious Group of People
↑ WWF web site home page
↑ Washington Monthly , May 1993 v25 n5 p60(2) At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife. Ann O'Hanlon.

[1] The 1001: A Nature Trust - A Prestigious Group of People

[2] WWF web site home page

[3] Washington Monthly , May 1993 v25 n5 p60(2) At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife. Ann O'Hanlon.

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