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Here's a member list for Bilderberg. It's a who's who of political, banking, media and business elite:
Margaret Thatcher(1975)[1], former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
Queen Sofia of Spain, wife of Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands[2]
Bill Clinton (1991)[3], US President, 1993 - 2001
Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, younger daughter of Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
Tony Blair (1993)[3], former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Kostas Karamanlis (1998), current Prime Minister of Greece
Angela Merkel (2005), current Chancellor of Germany
Romano Prodi (Steering Committee Member of Bilderberg in the 1980s), current Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission
Jean Chrιtien, Canadian Prime Minister, 1993 - 2003
Paul Martin, Canadian Prime Minister, 2003 - 2006
Stephen Harper (2003), Canadian Prime Minister, 2006 - Present
Francisco Pinto Balsemao, former Prime Minister of Portugal, 1981 - 1983 and CEO of Impresa media group
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, King of Sweden
Fredrik Reinfeldt, elected Prime Minister of Sweden, 2006 - Present
Carl Bildt[2], former Swedish Prime Minister and current Minister for Foreign Affairs
Davνπ Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland, 1991-2004
Philippe, Duke of Brabant, Crown Prince of Belgium
Dan Quayle (1990,1991), former US Vice President
Walter F. Mondale, former US Vice President
Nelson A. Rockefeller, former US Vice President, former Governor of New York
Gerald R. Ford (1964,1966), former US President
Gerhard Schrφder, former Chancellor of Germany
Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of Germany
Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway
Jens Stoltenberg, current Prime Minister of Norway
Kεre Willoch, former Prime Minister of Norway
Prince Philip (1965), Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Charles (1986), Prince of Wales
Members of United States administrations
Christian Herter (1961, 63, 64)[4], former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger (2004[5],2005,2006), Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977
Richard Perle (2003), assistant Secretary of Defense, 1981 - 1987
Donald Rumsfeld (1975,2002), Secretary of Defense, 2001 - 2006
David L. Aaron, Deputy National Security Advisor
Colin L. Powell (1997), former United States Secretary of State
William J. Perry (1996), former United States Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Bentsen (1989,1995,1996,1997), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Brent Scowcroft (1994), former National Security Advisor
Nicholas F. Brady (1991), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Robert Zoellick (1991,2003,2006), former Deputy Secretary of State and proposed President of the World Bank
Richard Holbrooke (1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2004,2005,2006), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
James A. Baker, former United States Secretary of State, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Lawrence Summers (1998,2002), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Heads of major corporations
H. J. Heinz II (1954)[6], CEO of H. J. Heinz Company
Josef Ackermann (2005), CEO of Deutsche Bank
Lord Browne of Madingley (1997[2], 2004), Chief Executive BP
Jorma Ollila (1997[2], 2005), Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Nokia Corporation
Jόrgen E. Schrempp (1997[2], 2005), CEO of DaimlerChrysler
Peter Sutherland (1997[2], 2005), former Chairman of BP
Martin Taylor (1997)[2], former CEO, Barclays
Daniel Vasella (2005), Chairman and CEO of Novartis
Percy Barnevik (1997[2], 2001), former CEO of ASEA
Anders Bjφrgerd (1973, 1982), former deputy CEO of Sydkraft AB
Harald Norvik (2006), former CEO of Statoil
Eivind Reiten , former CEO of Norsk Hydro
Andrew Knight - Director of News Corporation, 1991-present, CEO of News International, 1900-1994, CEO and Editor-in-Chief The Daily Telegraph Group, Editor of The Economist, 1974-1984
UK cabinet ministers
Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-1997; member of the Opposition 1998-1999, 2003-2004
Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence 1963-1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1974-1979 (founder member)
Journalists
Alexandre Adler, French conservative journalist (2003)
Paul Gigot - Editor of the Editorial Page of The Wall Street Journal; 2003- Present
Martin Wolf - Financial Times columnist
Juan Luis Cebriαn - Ex-director of El Paνs Spanish journal, and delegated advisor of PRISA Group
Will Hutton (1997)[3]
Peter Jennings
George Will (1981)
Charlie Rose (2002)
Fareed Zakaria (2002,2005)
Andrea Mitchell (2002)
Lesley Stahl (1997)
Thomas L. Friedman (1995,2003)
Bill D. Moyers (1971)
Jim Hoagland (1993,1998,1999,2002)
EU Commissioners
European Union Commissioners who have attended include:
Ritt Bjerregaard (1995)
Frederik Bolkestein (2003)[7]
Hans van den Broek (1995)
Emma Bonino (1998)
Leon Brittan (1998)
Pascal Lamy (2003)[7]
Mario Monti (1996,2003[7]) - former or present member of the Steering Committee
Erkki Liikanen
Pedro Solbes
Gόnter Verheugen
Antσnio Vitorino
Romano Prodi - Steering Committee Member of Bilderberg in the 1980s
Wim Duisenberg
Lord Patten of Barnes
Peter Mandelson (1999)
Ιtienne Davignon, conference chairman in 2005
Neelie Kroes (2005, 2006) - present Commissioner for Competition
UK civil servants
Eric Roll (Steering committee)[8], Department of Economic Affairs, 1964
Military
Terence Airey, Military Governor of Trieste
Other attendees
Joseph E. Johnson (1954)[6], President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
David Rockefeller, An original U.S. founding member, life member, and member of the Steering Committee (1954-);
Zbigniew Brzezinski (Guest, 1972), President Carter's National Security Advisor;
Gordon Richardson (1975)[9], Governor, Bank of England
George W. Ball (1954-1992)[10], U.S. diplomat
Lord Black of Crossharbour (1997)[2], Telegraph Chairman;
William J McDonough (1997)[2], President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
Sauli Niinistφ (1997)[2], former Finnish Finance Minister, Speaker of eduskunta
C. Fred Bergsten (1997)[2], President, Peterson Institute;
Leif Pagrotsky (2001), Swedish Minister for Education, Research and Culture [1];
Bjφrn Bjarnason, in 1988 and 1991 as vice editor of Morgunblaπiπ, and in 1993 and 1995 as Icelandic minister of education;
Guest at the 2003 Bilderberg Meeting included Carlos M. Collazo;
Richard N. Haass (2004)[5], president, Council on Foreign Relations;
Guests at the 2004 Bilderberg Meeting included John Edwards, James Wolfensohn, Melinda Gates, and Mario Draghi;
Guests at the 2005 Bilderberg Meeting included Vernon Jordan and Mark Warner and may also have included, according to the Financial Times of May 2, Natan Sharansky and Bernard Kouchner;
Guests at the 2006 Bilderberg Meeting included Vernon Jordan, George Pataki, Richard Perle, Dennis Ross, and prominent Canadians Paul Desmarais, Frank McKenna, Heather Reisman and Globe and Mail publisher Philip Crawley, Mahmood Sariolghalam (Iran National University), Siv Jensen, leader of Norwegian political party Fremskrittspartiet, Johann Olav Koss, and chairman of Scandinavian Airlines Egil Myklebust;
Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
George Osborne(2006)[11]- Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2004-Present; member of the opposition 2001-Present
Bill Bradley (1985), former US Senator
Jay Rockefeller (1971), current US Senator
L. Douglas Wilder (1991), former Governor of Virginia, current Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
Bill Richardson (1999,2000), current Governor of New Mexico
Christopher Dodd (1999,2000,2001), current US Senator
Chuck Hagel (1999,2000,2001), current US Senator
Evan Bayh (1999), current US Senator
Kay Bailey Hutchison (2000,2002), current US Senator
Hillary Clinton (1997), current US Senator
Dianne Feinstein (1991), current US Senator
Jon Corzine (1995,1996,1997[2],1999,2003,2004), current Governor of New Jersey
James Florio (1994), former Governor of New Jersey
Christine Todd Whitman (1998), former Governor of New Jersey
Sam Nunn (1996,1997[2]), former US Senator
Tom Foley (1995,2002), former Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Lee H. Hamilton (1997)[2], former US Congressman
George Stephanopoulos (1996,1997[2])
William Kristol (1995)
David Gergen (1995)
William F. Buckley, Jr. (1975,1996)
Mortimer Zuckerman (1994)
James Kimsey (2006)
George Soros (1994,1996,2000,2002)
Dora Bakoyannis (2003), current Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece), former Mayor of Athens
Rupert Murdoch
Javier Solana
Paul Volcker (1997)[2], former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Alan Greenspan (2002), former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Siv Jensen (2006), Chairman Fremskrittspartiet, Norwegian neo-conservative party
John G. Bernander , former head of the Norwegian national broadcaster NRK
Paddy Ashdown (1989), former leader of the UK Liberal Democrats
David Owen, former British Foreign Secretary
Marcus Wallenberg, current Chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, former CEO of Investor AB
Jacob Wallenberg, current Chairman of Investor AB, former Chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
Guy de Rothschild
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (1998)
Emma Rothschild (1995)
Lynn Forester de Rothschild (1998)
Otto von Habsburg, Archduke and Crown Prince of Austria
Josι Manuel Barroso, current President of the European Commission
Alexander Haig, former United States Secretary of State
Daniel Janssen
Winston Lord, former United States Ambassador to China
Donald E. Graham, Chairman of the Board of The Washington Post Company
Dwayne Andreas, Chairman and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, current Secretary General of NATO
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, former Secretary General of NATO
Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Franz Vranitzky, former Austrian Chancellor
Alfred Gusenbauer, current Chancellor of Austria
Siegmund Warburg, founder of S.G. Warburg & Co.
Eric Warburg, founder of Warburg Pincus
Robert S. McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense, former President of the World Bank
Franz Josef Strauί, former Defense Minister of Germany
Robert Rubin, former US Secretary of the Treasury
Valιry Giscard d'Estaing, former President of the French Republic
Rahmi Koη, Turkish business tycoon
Louis V. Gerstner, former Chairman of IBM, current Chairman of The Carlyle Group
Maurice R. Greenberg, former Chairman and CEO of American International Group
Rodrigo de Rato, current IMF Managing Director
Graham Allison
Jacques Attali
Jozias van Aartsen, former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
Maxime Verhagen, current Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
Michael Dukakis (1988), former Governor of Massachusetts
Michael Boskin (1991)
Jacques Parizeau, former Premier of Quebec
Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France
Dominique de Villepin (2003), Former Prime Minister of France
Laurent Fabius, former Prime Minister of France
Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
E. Gerald Corrigan, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, current Goldman Sachs Managing Director
George J. Mitchell, former US Senator
Antσnio Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal
Garret FitzGerald, former Prime Minister of Ireland
John Bruton, former Prime Minister of Ireland
John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Norman Lamont, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
William Hague, former leader of the Conservative Party (UK), current Shadow Foreign Secretary
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former British Foreign Secretary
Douglas Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary
Cecil Parkinson, former Chairman of the Conservative Party
Preston Manning
Felipe Gonzalez, former Prime Minister of Spain
Joaquνn Almunia
Jean-Claude Trichet, current President of the European Central Bank
Alexandre Lamfalussy
Mervyn A. King, current Governor of the Bank Of England
Jacques de Larosiθre, former Governor of the Banque de France
Kemal Derviş, current UNDP Administrator
Ad Melkert, current UNDP Associate Administrator
William J. Luti
Timothy F. Geithner, current President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Rick Perry (2007), current Governor of Texas
Jyrki Katainen (2007), current Finnish Minister of Finance
Michael Barone (pundit) (2007)
Lloyd Blankfein (2007), CEO of Goldman Sachs
Eric E. Schmidt (2007), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Google
Kathleen Sebelius (2007), current Governor of Kansas
Sidney Taurel (2007), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eli Lilly
Vin Weber (2007)
Josette Sheeran (2007), Executive Director of United Nations World Food Programme
Kristen Silverberg (2007)
Peter A. Thiel (2007), Co-Founder, PayPal
Ross Wilson (ambassador) (2007), current United States Ambassador to Turkey
Philip D. Zelikow (2007)
Marc Grossman (2007)
Esther Dyson (2007)
Craig Mundie
Tim Collins (financier)
John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard
Richard Dearlove (2007), former head of MI6
Jason Kenney (2007)
Guido Westerwelle (2007), Leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany
Anders Borg (2007), current Minister for Finance of Sweden
Frank Heemskerk (2007)
Dermot Gleeson, Chairman of Allied Irish Banks
Michael McDowell (2007)
Michel Barnier (2007), former French Foreign Minister
Paul Hermelin (2007), CEO of Capgemini
Laurence Parisot (2007), Head of French MEDEF
Christine Ockrent (2007)
John Elkann
Klaus Schwab
Anna Diamantopoulou
Georgios Alogoskoufis, current Minister for Economy and Finance (Greece)
Mogens Lykketoft
Idar Kreutzer (2007), CEO of Storebrand
Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of Siemens AG
Hikmet Ηetin (2007)
Emre Gφnensay (2007)
Ali Babacan (2007)
Sόleyman Demirel, former Prime Minister of Turkey
Bόlent Ecevit, former Prime Minister of Turkey
Adnan Menderes, former Prime Minister of Turkey
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