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Bilderberg Group changes itself for the modern world – and return of Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency
Charlie Skelton
Once the apex of conspiracy theories, the influential group signals a shift by naming ex-Nato chief as new co-chair
Wed 25 Dec 2024 12.00 GMT
The former head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, has been named the new co-chair of the influential Bilderberg Group, which convenes a yearly transatlantic policy conference and has long been the subject of conspiracy theories around the extent of its power to shape global events.
After a turbulent decade at the helm of the alliance’s military, Stoltenberg now takes over at its pre-eminent discussion forum: a fiercely private four-day event frequented by prime minsters, EU commissioners, bank bosses, corporate CEOs and intelligence chiefs.
Stoltenberg’s first Bilderberg was back in 2002, a few years before his second tenure as Norway’s prime minister. His decade as secretary general of Nato saw further visits, and he even gave the keynote speech at the group’s Saturday night banquet in Turin in 2018. His appointment as Bilderberg’s co-chair cements the group’s role at the heart of transatlantic strategy.
In February, Stoltenberg will also take over as chair of the Munich Security Conference, another important defence and diplomacy symposium. With a fellow Bilderberg veteran, the former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, replacing Stoltenberg at Nato, it marks a concentration of control at the top of the Atlantic alliance at a critical time.
Stoltenberg’s tenure at Nato was dominated by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which had begun in earnest not long before he took office in 2014. Stoltenberg oversaw what he recently described as “the largest reinforcement of our collective defence in a generation”, noting proudly that “defence spending is on an upward trajectory across the alliance”.
A number of his new colleagues at Bilderberg have been benefiting from this uptick.
Several of the group’s 31-member steering committee have senior roles in the defence industry. The billionaire former Google boss, Eric Schmidt, chaired the recent National Security Commission on AI, and is now busy launching a kamikaze drone company aimed at the lucrative Ukraine market. Meanwhile, the hugely wealthy Swedish industrialist Marcus Wallenberg is chair of defense manufacturer Saab, which enjoyed a 71% boost in orders in the first nine months of 2024, largely due to the war with Russia.
The tech luminary and Donald Trump insider Peter Thiel founded the fast-growing robotics company Anduril and the booming surveillance and AI giant Palantir. His loyal lieutenant Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, was voted on to the board of Bilderberg a few years ago. Karp, who claims his company is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine”, recently told the New York Times that the US will “very likely” soon be fighting a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran.
In some respects, the geopolitical mood today is not so different from how it was in the 1950s, when Bilderberg was born.
Top of the agenda at the first meeting in 1954 was “the attitude towards communism and the Soviet Union”, with the “strictly confidential” conference report referring repeatedly to “the communist threat”. Seventy years later, at the most recent summit in Madrid, the primary threat is “Russia”, which sat grimly at the foot of the conference agenda underneath “Ukraine and the world”, and “the future of warfare”.
In 1954, the alliance was facing “the emergence ofcommunist imperialism”. In 2024, it’s up against what Stoltenberg calls “the emerging axis of autocrats”, headed by Russia, China and North Korea.
Stoltenberg and his successor as secretary general, Rutte, were both at this summer’s Madrid meeting. Joining them in the conference hall were a clutch of high-up Pentagon officials and Nato’s second most senior military leader, US general Chris Cavoli, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. It was Cavoli’s second conference, and he’s not the first Saceur to attend the talks: they’ve been coming along to strategise since the mid-60s.
Bilderberg has always had close links with the military: its founders included senior members of British and American intelligence, and a previous Nato leader, Lord Carrington, chaired the group from 1990 to 1998.
Even the shamefaced resignation of its founding chair, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, had a military twist: he was caught up in the Lockheed bribery scandal of 1976, the only year (pre-Covid) that the conference was cancelled. And it’s telling that arguably the most dominant figure at Bilderberg in the last several decades was the grand strategist and warmonger, Henry Kissinger, who was lauded as a foreign policy genius by some and despised as a mass-murdering war criminal by others.
Bilderberg thrives on discreet diplomacy, elite networking and intelligence: a former chief of MI6, Sir John Sawers, is a member of the group’s steering committee and the current head of the CIA, William Burns, was a member before quietly resigning when he took office.
But the arrival of Stoltenberg might signal a sea change: it’s a big-name appointment and follows the recent election of the high-profile CNN interviewer Fareed Zakaria to the group’s steering committee, perhaps signalling a shift out of the shadows for the publicity-shy group.
Bilderberg hasn’t held a press conference for decades, but the urbane politician Stoltenberg is far more used to media briefings and Q&As than the man he replaces: the Dutch economist and Goldman Sachs adviser Victor Halberstadt, who died in September.
In fact, Stoltenberg has already made a statement to the press about his new role, telling the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Näringsliv that Bilderberg, “together with the Munich Security Conference … is a good platform for cooperation between leaders in the political arena, business and the academic world”.
If Stoltenberg is hoping to steer Bilderberg towards a little more engagement with the press, he might hope to get a helping hand from his co-chair, Marie-Josée Kravis, who sits on the board of Publicis, one of the world’s largest PR and communications companies.
However, it’s quite possible that Kravis herself will step aside fairly soon: she’s been assiduously attending Bilderbergs since the late 80s. The younger generation of billionaires in the inner circle, particularly the Silicon Valley crowd, tend to be more at ease chatting into a microphone, while others on the group’s governing body, like the politician Stacey Abrams and the Starbucks board member Mellody Hobson, are accomplished public speakers.
It will have to wait until Stoltenberg’s first conference as Bilderberg co-chair to find out if he’s shaking up the group’s publicity policy. This will, appropriately enough, be in Sweden. While at Nato, Stoltenberg welcomed four new members to the alliance: and Sweden was the most recent.
The chief negotiator for Sweden’s accession to Nato, Oscar Stenström, was spotted hovering around the fringes of this year’s Bilderberg conference in Madrid: he is helping to organise next year’s summit in Stockholm on behalf of his new boss, the billionaire Wallenberg. The Wallenberg family conveniently own the venue: the magnificent Grand hotel, which will be cordoned off in mid-June for the event.
What we know for sure is that Stoltenberg in his new role will be laser-focused, like one of Schmidt’s kamikaze drones, on strengthening transatlantic ties – which may not be entirely straightforward with Trump back in the White House and US foreign policy shaped by the “America first” agenda.
Writing in the Financial Times last month, Stoltenberg noted that Trump’s “campaign rhetoric had raised legitimate concerns about his commitment to European security”. That said, Stoltenberg knows that however tricky things get with Trump, he’s got a hotline to the White House through Peter Thiel: the incoming vice-president, JD Vance, used to work for Thiel at Mithril Capital, and a healthy handful of Thiel’s tech network are lined up for senior posts in the second Trump administration.
But that’s the thing with the studiously bipartisan Bilderberg: they’ve always got someone on the inside, whoever wins.
For example, Karp, Thiel’s CEO at Palantir, was a big backer of Kamala Harris. Looking down the steering committee, Nadia Schadlow is Trump’s former deputy national security adviser, while Abrams is a high-profile Democratic politician and activist. Stoltenberg’s op-ed in the Financial Times last month stressed the bipartisan nature of the transatlantic alliance: “Support for and pride in the most powerful military alliance the world has ever seen remains strong across the political spectrum.”
The former Nato chief was carefully welcoming of Trump 2.0. His strategy? Simply that “we need to invest more in defence” in order to “remind the incoming administration that, far from being a burden, the transatlantic relationship is a key strategic asset in this era of great-power competition”.
So all of the high finance high rollers who get invited to Stoltenberg’s Bilderberg can expect to get the hard sell on military and defence investment. Now’s the time for Jens to get networking and glad-handing in the transatlantic wings, keeping the war on the road, the alliance strong and the mil-tech billions flowing.
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Bilderberg/2025
https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2025/06/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-242/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bilderberg/2025
Date 11 June 2025 - 15 June 2025
Location Stockholm, Sweden
Website https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/
Description The 71st Bilderberg Meeting, the subject of an unprecedented leak
Perpetrators Bilderberg/Steering committee
The 2025 Bilderberg would be the the 71st Bilderberg meeting and is reportedly scheduled for next week in Stockholm, Sweden.[1]
Attendance
Most of the 35 Bilderbergers who attended the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Bilderbergs can be expected to attend:
Bilderberger Bilderbergs Description
Victor Halberstadt 47 A professor of economics, with a minimal Wikipedia page, who has attended all Bilderberg meetings since 1975.
Marie-Josée Kravis 32 Like her husband, Henry Kravis, a billionaire multi-Bilderberger
Henry Kravis 27 Like his wife, Marie-Josée Kravis, a billionaire multi-Bilderberger
Peter Thiel 16 Billionaire financier, Bilderberger
André Kudelski 14 Bilderberg Steering Committee businessman, WEF GLT 1995
Eric Schmidt 14 US billionaire who works for Alphabet (a.k.a Google). A 1997 WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow with numerous other deep political connections.
José Manuel Barroso 12 Portuguese deep state actor, Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission, WEF GLT 1993
Mathias Döpfner 12 "Non-Jewish Zionist" CEO of Axel Springer SE, member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and other transatlantic networks such as Atlantik-Brücke. Became a billionaire after receiving gift from elderly widow. WEF GLT 2001
Dimitrios Papalexopoulos 11 Greek business leader and member of the Bilderberg steering committee.
Alex Karp 11 CEO of Palantir, Big Data & Surveillance Advocate, Paypal mafia
Thomas Leysen 11 Bilderberg Steering Committee Member. Trilateral Commission.
Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956) 11 WEF GLT 1994, Swedish deep state operative, ex-Bilderberg Steering Committee
John Sawers 9 In his last year as Chief of MI6, 2014, attended his first Bilderberg. Has subsequently not missed a meeting.
Mark Rutte 9 NATO SG & Prime Minister of the Netherlands, protégé of Geert Wilders, involved in a variety of cover-ups he has "has no memory" of.
Zanny Minton Beddoes 8 Financial journalist, Bilderberger, IMF economist under Jeffrey Sachs
Jens Stoltenberg 8 Norwegian Bilderberger, ex PM, Secretary General of NATO.
Michael O'Leary 8 CEO Ryanair, Bilderberg steering committee
Connie Hedegaard 7 Danish politician, multi-Bilderberger
Mark Carney 7 Goldman Sachs Governor of the Bank of Canada then the Bank of England, G30, Triple citizenship, No shortage of Bilderbergs or WEF Annual Meetings to become Prime Minister of Canada
Gideon Rachman 7 Spooky UK journalist, friend of MI6 whistleblower Richard Tomlinson, with serious Bilderberg and WEF AGM habits
Radoslaw Sikorski 7 Polish Bullingdon Bilderberger
Nadia Schadlow 6 Suspected US deep state functionary. First Bilderberg in 2017
Anne Applebaum 6 Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't a major news story.
Ömer Koç 6 Multi-millionaire Turkish businessman, Koç Holding/Chair
Erkki Liikanen 6 Finnish central banker, European Commissioner who was mooted as candidate for President of the European Central Bank in 2019
Patricia Barbizet 6 Prominent figure in the French business world, Le Siècle President 2017-2019
Demis Hassabis 6 Dialled into a SAGE meeting at the request of Dominic Cummings. First Bilderberg in 2015
Patrick Pouyanné 5 Appointed CEO of Total following the bizarre death of Christophe de Margerie (a fellow Bilderberger) in Moscow.
Paschal Donohoe 5 Irish Finance Minister who attended several Bilderberg meetings.
Valérie Baudson 3 French banker and "the most powerful female financier in Europe after Christine Lagarde". Attended the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Bilderberg meetings.
Jen Easterly 3 US spook. Morgan Stanley, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Bilderberg 2022.
José Manuel Albares 3 Spanish diplomat and Foreign Minister. Bilderberg 2022.
Albert Bourla 3 Chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer who termed the COVID jabs "weapons"
Øyvind Eriksen 3 Norwegian attorney and head of industry. Crony of billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke.
Tarun Chhabra 3 US National Security Council China "expert"
Exposure
Bilderberg watcher, Tony Gosling, published the dates and location of the meeting on the internet in September 2024.[1] If true, this would represent an unprecedented leak of the contact information.
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On This Day: David Cameron travelled to Watford to attend Bilderberg meeting
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/day-david-cameron-travelled-watford-060000371.html
Sat, 7 June 2025 at 7:00 am BST·1-min read
The then-Prime Minister attended Bilderberg meeting in Watford <i>(Image: Newsquest)</i>
The then-Prime Minister attended Bilderberg meeting in Watford (Image: Newsquest)
On this day in 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron travelled to Watford to attend a Bilderberg meeting.
While Downing Street confirmed his attendance, details about the timing and duration of his stay remained undisclosed.
It marked Cameron’s first appearance at the conference as Prime Minister, although he was believed to have previously attended in 2008 while leading the Conservative Party.
Interestingly, his name was absent from the official list of attendees published earlier in the week.
Although his name was absent from the official list of attendees (Image: Newqsuest)
A Downing Street spokesperson clarified to the Watford Observer that the Prime Minister had been invited “as head of the government” of the host country, and emphasised that it was a "private meeting".
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Cameron viewed the conference as “an opportunity to discuss economic issues with senior ministers, business people and academics".
Other attendees included Chancellor George Osborne, shadow chancellor Ed Balls, former Chancellor Ken Clarke, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and ex-CIA director David Petraeus.
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2025 Annotated Bilderberg Members List
by dan <danfey@earthlink.net>
https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/2025-annotated-bilderberg-members-list/
STOCKHOLM, 12 June 2025 – The 71st Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 12 – 15 June 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. This will be at a hotel owned by the Wallenberg family, prominent in Bilderberg. The family used to be Jewish.
The topics for discussion this year are:
Transatlantic Relationship
Ukraine
US Economy
Europe
Middle East
Authoritarian Axis
Defence Innovation and Resilience
AI, Deterrence and National Security
Proliferation
Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
Depopulation and Migration
Bilderberg Meetings is led by a Steering Committee. Its current co-chairs are Henri de Castries and Marie-Josée Kravis.
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 2025
Abrams, Stacey (USA), CEO, Sage Works Production. Member of Steering Committe. She is a black lesbian who ran for and lost the race for Governor of Georgia. She is needed to help control Black, radical opposition. Well-funded by NGOs.
Albuquerque, Maria Luís (INT), European Commissioner Financial Services
and the Savings and Investments Union. She is the former Portuguese Finance Minister. New participant.
Alcázar Benjumea, Diego del (ESP), CEO, IE University. From an aristocratic family. Since 2014, he sits on the board of Headspring, a joint venture created by IE Business School and the Financial Times Group to design and implement customized education for companies. Passionate about entrepreneurship, he is co-founder and member of the board of the South Summit, the leading startup and innovation conference in Europe and Latin America, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2022. In 2017, he was awarded the David Rockefeller Fellowship, in recognition of his active leadership role in civic and public affairs. Previously consultant at Bain & Company, he also co-founded Step-Up Capital, a vehicle to identify, invest, and manage business opportunities. New participant.
Alverà, Marco (ITA), Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO TES. Member of Steering Committe. Alverà studied at the London School of Economics, where he earned a degree in Philosophy and Economics in 1997. Alverà began his career at Goldman Sachs in London. He launched the first injection of a hydrogen and natural gas into the pipeline, the Europe’s first commercial test of a hydrogen-methane blend in a high-pressure network.
Andersson, Magdalena (SWE), Leader, Social Democratic Party. Sweden’s first woman prime minister in November 2021. She had to resign due to coalition problems with anti-immigrant parties and budget concerns. New Participant
Applebaum, Anne (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic. New Participant. Author of an anti-trump book. She is cheerleading a revolt against Trump. Her husband is Bilderberger and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski. She is Jewish. She claims to be an expert on Communism in Russia and eastern Europe. New participant.
Attal, Gabriel (FRA), Former Prime Minister. Served briefly under Macron in 2024. First openly Gay PM in France. Neither he nor Macron is popular with French voters. New Participant
Auchincloss, Murray (CAN), CEO, BP plc. Makes $10 million a year. qualified as a chartered financial analyst in the United States. Graduated from Calgary U with a degree in economics. Not an engineer. Was CFO but took over due to sex scandal involving the former CEO. Qualified as a chartered financial analyst in the United States. New participant.
Baker, James H. (USA), Former Director, Office of Net Assessment,
Department of Defense. Baker earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University in 1990. In 1993, he earned another master’s degree, in operations research and systems engineering, from the University of Florida. In 1999, he attended the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College for a masters in Military Sciences. In 2006, he returned to school at the National War College to earn a master’s in national security studies. He later completed certificate programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School. On May 14, 2015 Baker was selected to be the director of the Office of Net Assessment. He served under Obama, Trump and Biden. He is responsible for providing the United States Secretary of Defense with comparative assessments of the prospects of the military capabilities of the United States relative to other actors. He previously served as strategist and advisor to two chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is not a politician. Neither he nor anyone else at Bilderberg has been looking for the tens of trillions of dollars that has gone missing from the federal government since the Clinton years.
Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), Chair and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS. Member of Steering Committe. She just stepped down but is still on the board of Artemis. She is also the head of Christie’s auction house. Her husband is an investment banker at Barclays. She is board member and vice president at Gucci owned Kering She has a strong history in French business. Elevated to the Steering Committee in 2019.
Barroso, José Manuel (PRT), Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International. Member of Steering Committe. Former President, European Commission. He used to be a frequent object of Nigel Farage’s wrath at the EU parliament. Farage used to name Barroso as one of a long list of EU commissioners who were either former Maoists and Communists or were convicted felons or under indictment for felonies. He was a member of the underground Maoist MRPP . I am as concerned about his relationship with Goldman Sachs as I am about his college days in a Maoist action group
Baudson, Valérie (FRA), CEO, Amundi SA Member of Steering Committe. Another Banker. Valérie Baudson is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole S.A. in charge of the asset management division and a member of the Executive Committee of Crédit Agricole SA since May 2021. In this capacity, she is Chief Executive Officer of Amundi, Europe’s biggest asset manager
Beleza, Leonor (PRT), President, Champalimaud Foundation. It does biomedical research. She is a lawyer. Currently, she serves as 1st Vice-President of the Social Democratic Party. Between 1985 and 1990 she was Minister of Health of the Portuguese Republic. New participant.
Birol, Fatih (INT), Executive Director, International Energy Agency. He is a Turkish economist and energy expert, who has served as the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) since 1 September 2015. During his time in charge of the IEA, he has taken a series of steps to modernise the Paris-based international organisation, including strengthening ties with emerging economies like India and China and stepping up work on the clean energy transition and international efforts to reach net zero emissions. New participant?
Botín, Ana (ESP), Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA. Member of Steering Committe. Formerly head of Santander UK. This is an old drug money laundering bank with ties to Latin America and the Rothschilds. Her mother is of Irish descent (O’Shea). She worked for J P Morgan for 8 years.
Bourla, Albert (USA), Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc. Bourla was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. His parents were Sephardic Jews. Covid was made in a lab in the West. It was enhanced (made more contagious) using NIH funds sent by Dr Anthony Fauci to that Chinese military lab at Wuhan. The Covid vaxxes are Bioweapons.
Brende, Børge (NOR), President, World Economic Forum. This is the group at Davos who said by 2030 you will own nothing but be very happy. You will rent a home, a car, furniture, appliances and even the clothes on your back. How will this happen? Because the Bilderbergers and their friends will hyperinflate the costs of food and energy so you will sell everything to billionaires only to lease it back. You will be happy because as Klaus Schwab says, “you will have a chip in your brain and they will control you and the media. Brende served as chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development 2003–2004. In 2005, he took up the appointment of international vice chairman of the China Council for the International Cooperation on Environment and Development (advisory board to the State Council). He had been managing director of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Conservative party but he would never make it in the Republican party in America. First Bilderberg meeting was in 2016. Elevated to the Steering Committee in 2019.
Brunner, Magnus (INT), European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration. He is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration since December 2024. Previously, he served as Austria’s finance minister from 2021 until 2024 in the government of Chancellor Karl Nehammer. New participant.
Brzoska, Rafal (POL), CEO, InPost SA. His wife is a Polish TV personality. He is a billionaire self-made and does a lot of charitable work. New participant.
Busch, Ebba (SWE), Minister for Energy, Business and Industry. She has actually criticized immigrants who commit sex crimes, but she is pro-Israeli. She is half Norwegian.is a French civil servant and business executive. He has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Thales Group since December 23, 2014 and President of the French National Association for Research and Technology (ANRT) since December 2019.
Caine, Patrice (FRA), Chair & CEO, Thales Group. is a French civil servant and business executive. He has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Thales Group since December 23, 2014 and President of the French National Association for Research and Technology (ANRT) since December 2019. New participant?
Calviño, Nadia (INT), President, European Investment Bank since January 2024. From June 2018 to December 2023, Calviño was part of the cabinets led by prime minister Pedro Sánchez, holding the office of Minister of Economy. She leads efforts to digitalize money. New participant.
Castries, Henri de (FRA), President, Institut Montaigne. Head of Bilderberg Europe. Member of Steering Committe. The Institut Montaigne is a French think tank funded by Bankers A former AXA chairman. He founded it in 2000. It is an AXA operation. They favor social cohesion (meaning they don’t want the rabble to revolt.) They have studied in depth race riots in the Paris suburbs but have since brought in millions of unvetted refugees. Either not very bright or are working to destroy Europe.
Chambers, Jack (IRL), Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalization. He is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He previously served as Minister for Finance from 2024 to 2025, a Minister of State attending cabinet from July 2020 to June 2024 and served as Government Chief Whip from July 2020 to December 2022. He has been Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil since 2024. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since the 2016 general election. He is openly Gay. New participant.
Champagne, François-Philippe (CAN), Minister of Finance and National Revenue. Returning Participant. Lived in Europe. Bilderberg is interested in the trillions of dollars the US, Canada and Europe must spend on infrastructure. They want the public to pay for it and Bilderberg to own our railroads and utilities and roads.
Clark, Jack (USA), Co-Founder & Head of Policy, Anthropic PBC. Jack Clark is a prominent figure in the AI industry, serving as the co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic. He co-founded the company in 2021 with six ex-OpenAI researchers and has since been instrumental in building large-scale artificial intelligence systems. Clark’s work has garnered significant attention, with his newsletter, Import AI, boasting over 69,000 subscribers. His expertise in AI policy and governance has been recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in AI in 2023. New participant.
Crawford, Kate (USA), Professor and Senior Principal Researcher, USC and Microsoft Research. is an Australian researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is also a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development. Bilderberg loves the WEF. New participant.
Donahue, Christopher (USA), Commander, US Army Europe and Africa since December 10, 2024. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has extensive experience in various military roles, including command and staff positions. Donahue’s leadership extends to both Europe and Africa, where he has been involved in significant operations and has established relationships with NATO Allies and African partners. Bilderberg needs military experts to make decisions about our future. New participant.
Donohoe, Paschal (INT), President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance. The Eurogroup has 20 members. It exercises political control over the currency and related aspects of the EU’s monetary union such as the Stability and Growth Pact. He is an Irish politician touted as the next IMF chief. He was in the Irish parliament. Returning participant.
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE. Member of Steering Committe. His wife has a Jewish maiden name. Her father was in senior management at Deutsche Bank which is a Jewish run. Returning Participant. Elevated to the Steering Committee in 2019.
Eberstadt, Nicholas N. (USA), Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, AEI, a supposedly conservative think tank. He is also a Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), a member of the visiting committee at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a member of the Global Leadership Council at the World Economic Forum. WEF again. His maternal grandfather was a co-founder of the CIA. New participant.
Ek, Daniel (SWE), CEO, Spotify SA. He founded Spotify the music streaming business. His new worth is almost $5 billion. Some people are invited because they can influence the opinions of many other persons. Was first time participant in 2024.
Ekholm, Börje (SWE), CEO, Ericsson Group. Ekholm started his career as a consultant for McKinsey from 1988 to 1992, before joining the holding company controlled by the Wallenberg family, Investor AB, where he worked in corporate finance. Three years later he was assigned to build the newly formed venture capital business within the company called Novare Kapital and becoming Investor AB’s deputy chief executive officer in 2000. In 2005, he replaced Marcus Wallenberg as CEO of the firm In 2015, he was reassigned to lead Investor AB’s subsidiary Patricia Industries as CEO and remained in the role until early 2017. In January 2017, Ekholm succeeded Hans Vestberg as CEO of Ericsson. At the time of his appointment, Investor AB was Ericsson’s biggest shareholder. He has also been a board member of Ericsson since 2006. He is a Wallenberg man. New participant.
Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA. He holds a law degree from the University of Oslo. Aker is a Norwegian industrial investment company with ownership interests concentrated in oil and gas, renewable energy and green technologies, maritime assets, marine biotechnology, and industrial software. Aker is the largest shareholder, directly or indirectly, in 13 companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. He is an expert on digitalization. Returning participant.
Feltri, Stefano (ITA), Journalist. He wass deputy director of Il Fatto Quotidiano from 2015 to 2019, director of ProMarket.org from 2019 to 2020 and of Domani from 2020 to April 2023. Since 2023 he has been curating the Appunti website, which is combined with a podcast and is a columnist for the newspaper Milano Finanza. New participant.
Fentener van Vlissingen, Annemiek (NLD), Chair, SHV Holdings NV. She studied Business Administration at the University of Groningen. After graduating in 1988, she went to the United States to study. She is Chairman of the Supervisory Board and portfolio holder for business development at SHV Holdings NV in Utrecht. She was also a member of the Supervisory Board of Heineken (2006-2018), Draka Holding NV (2001-2011) and Buco NV. She was a member of the Supervisory Board of De Nederlandsche Bank from 2007 to 2015. She also served as a non-executive member on the board of directors of the Italian listed company Exor S.p.A. between 2015 and 2018. Annemiek Siderius-Fentener van Vlissingen was the most powerful woman in the Netherlands in 2010, according to Management Scope. New participant.
Fraser, Jane (USA), CEO, Citigroup. British born. Educated there and at Harvard. She used to work at Goldman Sachs. Was first time participant in 2024.
Freeland, Chrystia (CAN), Minister of Transport and Internal Trade. Freeland is the granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi, and she also has a long and intimate relationship with the New World Order, World Economic Forum, as they were her previous employers. She represents Canadian PM Carney, Mark J. (CAN), Chair, Brookfield Asset Management Member of the Steering Committee. Former Governor, Bank of England. Former head of Bank of Canada. The Guardian had an article about his support for Climate Change. BS. There is No Global Warming. He began his career at Goldman Sachs and helped stoke the housing bubble in Canada. The above is his 2024 entry.
Friedman, Thomas L. (USA), Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times. Pro-Israeli. Globalist. His writings have angered a lot of Americans. New participant? Not sure, I lack the software to check all of my older Bilderberg articles.
Gabuev, Alexander (INT), Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. He is fluent in Russian, English, Mandarin, and German. He began his career as a journalist. His expertise is on Russian foreign policy and China. Was first time participant in 2024.
Hammer, Kristina (AUT), President, Salzburg Festival. She selected unanimously for this position by the Festival’s Supervisory Board in November 2021. Her high expertise – Kristina Hammer was a member of the board of the Friends of the Zurich Opera House – and international network as well as her long-standing connection with Salzburg were decisive factors for her appointment. The top manager holds German and Swiss citizenship and was given a contract that runs through 31 December 2026. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1968, Kristina Hammer completed her law degree and bar exam, followed by a PhD degree in European business law in Vienna.
Harrington, Kevin (USA), Senior Director for Strategic Planning, NSC. Was Managing Director, Thiel Capital LLC His boss is Peter Thiel, a member of the Steering Committee. Both are Trump supporters. Was First time participant in 2024. New participant
Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind, a machine learning AI startup, founded in London in 2010. Following work at Lionshead and Elixir Studios, Hassabis returned to academia to obtain his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London (UCL) He sought to find inspiration in the human brain for new AI algorithms. He is half Greek Cypriot and Chinese. He grew up in North London and was a child prodigy, educated at home. Returning participant. They are serious about AI.
Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation. Former European Commissioner. She was European Commissioner for Climate Action in the (second Barroso) European Commission from 10 February 2010 through 31 October 2014. She has also worked as a journalist. KR Foundation’s mission is to address the root causes of climate change and environmental degradation. The KR group wants to phase out coal. More Global Warming BS. Bilderberg could make trillions from this scam. Elevated to the Steering Committee in 2024. Another former journalist.
Heinrichs, Rebeccah (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute. Director Keystone Defense Initiative. She specializes in National Security and Defense, Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Missile Defense and Foreign Policy. Graduate of Naval War College. Has PhD from U of Missouri. She is married and has 5 children. New participant
Heraty, Anne (IRL), Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald ana IBEC. She started as a recruiter of IT workers. Sold for 300 million euros and now a very large runs a major Irish property firm. New participant.
Herlin, Jussi (FIN), Vice Chair, KONE Corporation, global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, and our purpose is to shape the future of cities. He is a member of the WEF Davos forum. Lots of them at Bilderberg. Probably there to help them design 15-minute cities. In Bilderberg’s future world, you would need permission to travel more than 15 minutes from your residence. New participant.
Hernández de Cos, Pablo (ESP), General Manager Elect, Bank for International Settlements. From his 2024 credits. He is a member of the Governing and General Council of the ECB. He is Chair of the BCBS, of the Board of Governors of the CEMLA and of the Advisory Technical Committee of the ESRB. He is member of various European and International Committees including the ESRB, the FSB, the BIS Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision and the Advisory Board of the FSI. Well-connected Banker. Was first time participant in 2024.
Hobson, Mellody (USA), Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC Member of Steering Committe. Former Chair of the Board of Directors of DreamWorks Animation. She is black. Ariel is a Chicago investment firm that manages over $10 billion in assets. She married George Lucas and had a child delivered by a surrogate birth mother.
Hoekstra, Wopke (INT), European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth. Worked for Shell oil. And has investments in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven. Disagrees with many Eurozone policies. Critical of southern Europeans who do not manage money very well.
Hoffmann, André (CHE), Vice-Chair, Roche Holding Ltd (A Drug Company). Member of Steering Committe. Not on list of attendees. The great-grandson of Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche who founded the drug company Roche Holding in 1896. He is a member of the Club of Rome, a member of the board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, a member the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco, and a member of the board of SystemIQ, a company that intends to “drive positive disruption in economic systems.”
Hunt, Jeremy (GBR), Member of Parliament. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2022 to 2024 and Foreign Secretary from 2018 to 2019, having previously served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2012 to 2018 and as Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament for Godalming and Ash, formerly Southwest Surrey, since 2005. Hunt also served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Shadow Cabinet of Rishi Sunak from July to November 2024. The son of an Admiral of the Royal Navy. Tories and Labour politicians are both very unpopular politicians. New participant.
Isla, Pablo (ESP), Vice-Chair, Nestlé SA. Lawyer and businessman. I do not like Nestle. New participant.
Johansson, Micael (SWE), President and CEO, Saab AB, Swedish defence and security company. Prior to that he was in charge of their radar, electronic warfare, command and control, and traffic management systems. New participant.
Jonsson, Conni (SWE), Founder and Chair, EQT Group. An Invesment firm that might be moving into the American market. New participant.
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc. Member of Steering Committe. Bilderberg wants to make Palantir Digital Spy system a part of our future. This high tech data mining company was created with seed money from the CIA so I do not believe those claims about protecting user privacy. It is in data mining but has advantages over its competitors because of its government access. It is partnering with Project Maven AI. AI requires massive human data to work.
Klöckner, Julia (DEU), President Bundestag. Second highest office. Member the Christian Democratic Union (CDU.) who has been serving as President of the German Bundestag since 25 March 2025. Previously, she served as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. Since 2012, she has also been part of the CDU leadership. New participant.
Kostrzewa, Wojciech (POL), President, Polish Business Roundtable. He is a crypto enthusiast who is the founder and CEO of Billon Group, a fintech company that specializes in blockchain-based payment solutions. He has been involved in the development of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies since the early days of Bitcoin, and has become a leading figure in the Polish crypto community. Kostrzewa holds a degree in electronics engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology, and has extensive experience in banking and finance. He has worked for major financial institutions such as Citibank and the Polish National Bank, and has also served as an advisor to the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs on matters related to blockchain and fintech. As the founder of Billon, Kostrzewa has been instrumental in developing the company’s blockchain-based payment platform, which enables fast, secure and low-cost digital transactions. The platform uses a proprietary technology called DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) that allows it to process high-volume transactions in real-time, without the need for intermediaries. New participant.
Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has written lots of books on Stalin and the Soviet collapse. He is a first-rate Russia expert which does not mean that he is right. Returning participant.
Kratsios, Michael (USA), Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Bad CV. He studied at Princeton University and graduated with a B.A. in politics and a certificate in Hellenic studies in 2008. While in college, Kratsios was an intern for U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and editor-in-chief and president of Business Today.[5][13][14] Following his time at Princeton, he worked for Barclays Capital and Lyford Group International, and later served as the chief financial officer of Clarium Capital Management.Prior to joining the Trump administration as deputy assistant to the president, Kratsios was a principal at Thiel Capital and served as chief of staff to entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. degree in politics. Interned for the warmonger Linday Graham. He worked as a Banker and for Peter Thiel, a Member of the Bilderberg Society. He was programmed to give the answers Peter Thiel wants. New participant.
Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Member of Steering Committe. Head of Bilderberg North America. When they bought R J Reynolds, Catherine Austin Fitts couldn’t understand how KKR could pay so much. She later learned that Reynolds sold cigarettes to terrorists and drug dealers so they could launder money. KKR takes over companies and steals their pensions. Returning member. His wife was a member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and Co-Chair of Bilderberg.
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA. FormerMember of the Bilderberg Steering Committee for several years. Kudelski SA is a Swiss company that sells digital television access and management systems, content protection solutions, cybersecurity solutions, Internet of Things products and public access infrastructure. He serves on many corporate boards. He wrote this: Together with incredible opportunities come new risks, as the virtual and real world become one in the fourth industrial revolution. Read more here: www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-dark-side-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution
Kuleba, Dmytro (UKR), Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po. From his 2024 entry. He is a lawyer and worked as a diplomat. Disagreed with the pre-coup leader in 2013 and quit. He joined the US inspired 2014 coup and returned to the foreign office where he specialized in EU relations. He is there to discuss the Ukraine. Dutch diplomat and civil servant who served as acting Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation between December 2023 and April 2024 during the maternity leave of Liesje Schreinemacher. He has also been the ambassador of the Netherlands to Afghanistan which might make him an expert in unwinnable forever wars.
Leeuwen, Geoffrey van (INT), Director Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO. Dutch diplomat and civil servant who served as acting Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation between December 2023 and April 2024 during the maternity leave of Liesje Schreinemacher. He has also been the ambassador of the Netherlands to Afghanistan which might make him an expert in unwinnable forever wars. Please note that he has no military experience. New participant.
Lemierre, Jean (FRA), Chair, BNP Paribas. He is a French former public servant who was the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2000 to 2008. Following his departure from EBRD, Lemierre joined BNP Paribas as an adviser. He attends WEF meetings at Davos. The WEF is a common theme at Bilderberg. New participant.
Letta, Enrico (ITA), Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. He was an Italian career politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014, leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. He was the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) from March 2021 to March 2023. New participant.
Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chair, dsm-firmenich AG. Member of Steering Committe. Former Banker and head of a mining firm. Current firm is not of interest, they do fragrances.
Lighthizer, Robert (USA), Chair, Center for American Trade. Jim Rickards spoke highly of him. He is a lawyer. He was at the firm of Covington and Burling in Washington which is very powerful politically. He was trade representative under Trump. Returning participant
Liikanen, Erkki (FIN), Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees. The IFRS Foundation is a not-for-profit responsible for developing global accounting and sustainability disclosure standards, known as IFRS Standards. He obtained a Master’s degree in Political Science (Economics) from the University of Helsinki in 1975. He is a Finnish social democratic politician and a former Governor of the Bank of Finland. Member of the related Trilateral Commission. First time attendee in 2019. Elevated to the Bilderberg Steering Committee in 2022.
Lundstedt, Martin (SWE), CEO, Volvo Group. He has 25 years experience in development, production and sales within the heavy automotive industry. He has an MSc in (Mechanical Engineering). Member European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). New participant.
Marin, Sanna (FIN), Strategic Counsellor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. She is a Finnish former politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Parliament from 2015 to 2023. She was re-elected as member of parliament in April 2023 but resigned to become a strategic adviser on political leaders’ reform programmes in the Tony Blair Institute in September 2023.
McGrath, Michael (INT), European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law. Good friend of Paschal Donohoe another Bilderberger. He is a career Irish politician who acts more like a technician. Good knowledge of tech. His EU job would not exist in a post DOGE America. New participant.
Mensch, Arthur (FRA), Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI a French company selling artificial intelligence products. It was founded in April 2023 by previous employees of Meta Platforms and Google DeepMind. Was first time participant in 2024. I repeat, Bilderberg is interested in AI.
Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP. Member of Steering Committe. He used to be Editor-in-Chief, The Economist which is owned by the Rothschilds. The Economist urged Iraq to attack Iran 6 months before the war started. Member of the Steering Committee for several years. It seems Bilderberg likes to change participants each year. They are trying to maximize their influence without getting too many people in the room. Otherwise, they would become another Davos.
Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist, a Rothschild publication. Member of Steering Committe.
Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC), Prime Minister since July 2019. He is the leader of the New Democracy party and has been in office for two terms, with his most recent election occurring in June 2023. Mitsotakis is known for his economically liberal policies and has been credited with modernizing Greece’s public administration. He supports LGBT rights, including the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in Greece. His administration has faced criticism for various issues, including corruption and the handling of migration, but he has also been commended for his efforts in economic recovery and digital transformation. Bilderberg loves migrants and digitalization. New participant.
Monti, Mario (ITA), Senator for life. He is a former PM. He also is a former VP at Goldman Sachs. Returning participant.
Nadella, Satya (USA), CEO, Microsoft Corporation. Member of Steering Committe. He was born in India. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company’s computing platforms.
Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD), Member of Steering Committe. His family owns a large part of Royal Dutch Shell along with the Queen of England and the Rothschilds. Forbes magazine did a puff piece and said his family only had 300 million dollars. This is not credible for a family that ruled for 200 years. His wife is prettier than most actresses in Hollywood. Her father was in the Argentinian government during the Dirty War. Europe might need men like him when the EU Rothschild experiment collapses. His mother attended before him.
O’Leary, Michael (IRL), Group CEO, Ryanair Group. Member of Steering Committe. This guy is out spoken and funny. O’Leary jokingly described the airline’s planned business class travel experience as featuring “whores and rum”.
Ollongren, Kajsa (NLD), Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, GLOBSEC. Kajsa Ollongren served in the Netherlands as Minister of Defence (2022–24) and Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (2017–22) in two consecutive Rutte cabinets, also holding the role of Deputy Prime Minister (2017–22).
Özyeğin, Murat (TUR), Chair, Fiba Group. He is a second-generation member of one of the wealthiest families of Turkey, and son of a self-made billionaire Hüsnü Özyeğin. He is a member of the executive board of FIBA Holding and a member of the board of trustees of Özyeğin University. MBA from Harvard Business School in 2003. He began his career as a financial analyst within the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Bear Stearns in New York City. He established the Strategy and Business Development Departments of Finansbank and FIBA Holding after his return to Turkey in 2003. New participant.
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), Chair, TITAN S.A. Treasurer, Foundation Bilderberg Meetings; Member of Steering Committe. Titan cement is a large international company which is expanding into the US and eastern Europe. He also appeared at Davos and likes to talk in public.
Paparo, Samuel (USA), Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command. He oversees a vast array of military activities across 36 nations, 14 time zones, and 60 percent of the world’s population. His leadership is crucial in countering China’s military ascendancy and ensuring the security and prosperity of the region. The US cannot invade Yemen and win. Bilderberg is bonkers if they think they can take on China and win. New participant.
Philippe, Édouard (FRA), Mayor, Le Havre. He is a lawyer. His father was a dock worker. He was Prime Minister under President Macron before becoming mayor again. Returning participant.
Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE. TOTAL. is the French energy giant Total, 4th largest oil company in the world which is why he was invited. Returning participant. Lots of oil and banking men at Bilderberg. It was founded by the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers who are in banking and oil.
Prokopenko, Alexandra (INT), Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. She is an independent journalist, former columnist of Vedomosti newspaper and MA in Sociology (University of Manchester). She was a research associate at ZOiS from May 2023 until March 2024 and is still an affiliated researcher. She has been a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center since April 2024. Prokopenko is an expert on Russian economic and monetary policy and the Kremlin’s decision-making processes. Her economic analyses focus in particular on Russian monetary and fiscal policy and the situation of the Russian elite (both top bureaucrats and companies). She publishes a weekly newsletter on Russia’s economy for The Bell, one of Russia’s leading independent online media. She is also a Visiting Fellow at DGAP’s Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. From 2017 to 2022, Prokopenko worked as an adviser at the Central Bank of Russia and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. From 2008 to 2017, she worked as a reporter, first at the TASS news agency and then at Vedomosti, Russia’s then leading business newspaper. In 2018, Prokopenko completed a Master’s in Sociology at the University of Manchester and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. She is their real Russian expert. New participant
Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times. He became the chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times in July 2006. In 2016, he won the Orwell Prize for political journalism. Is it an oxymoron to say a journalist won the Orwell prize? Returning participant.
Rappard, Rolly van (NLD), Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners. Member of Steering Committe. Worked at Citigroup and ay CVC’s predecessor Citigroup Venture Capital. CVC has 133 billion euros in assets under management. Also active in WEF at Davos. A lot of interaction between the two groups. New participant in 2024.
Reiche, Katherina (DEU), Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy. From 1998 to 2015, she was a member of the German Bundestag. From 2009 to 2013, she was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and from 2013 to 2015, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. She helped shut down coal. She is a trained chemist. Seems to have second thoughts on energy shutdowns. New participant.
Ringstad Vartdal, Birgitte (NOR), CEO, Statkraft AS. Statkraft accounts for a third of Norway’s power production and is Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy. She is a former shipping exec. She has degrees in math and physics. New participant.
Roche, Nicolas (FRA), Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defence and National Security. He began his career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2006, before joining the France embassies in the USA and Israel as an advisor. From 2016 to 2019, he was Director of Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament at the Quai d’Orsay. He served as France’s ambassador to Iran from 2022 to 2025. Probably want him, because he talked to Iranians for 3 years. New participant.
Rutte, Mark (INT), Secretary General, NATO. Former Dutch PM, as such, he was a partner with the WEF at Davos in stealing half the land of Dutch farmers. Davos and Bilderberg want to starve us into submission. Returning participant.
Salvi, Diogo (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, TIMWE. a “digital enabler for mobile operators” helping with digital engagement using behavioural design and gamification. He has long experience working with the banking sector. He attended the 2022 Bilderberg meeting. With more than 15 years of experience doing gamification, TIMWETECH is helping companies worldwide in initiatives of Digital Engagement using Behavioural Design and Gamification.” Microfinance and digital payments, especially in the global south. TIMWETECH can provide access to Direct Carrier Billing, E-wallets, Cash Payments, and local debit cards with one single and simple API. TIMWE also has a credit scoring engine, fully supported on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies, that evaluates risk and potential for any individual user based on his historical data and behaviour. Returning participant.
Sawers, John (GBR), Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd. Member of Steering Committe. He was Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He was a professional diplomat being neither a spy nor a warrior. Has first hand knowledge of Iran. First meeting in 2015. Joined Steering committee in 2016. They like him.
Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute. Member of Steering Committee. Not on list of attendees. She is a senior program officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation. She has published articles about national security in the Wall Street Journal, ForeignPolicy.com, The American Interest, Parameters, War on the Rocks, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. – She wrote this: Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate a new political order are not separate from war. They are instead an essential component of war and victory. The Hudson Institute is a think tank that works for US military and espionage services.
Scherf, Gundbert (DEU), Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH, a deep tech company in the security and defence sector. Before founding Helsing, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he oversaw the aerospace and defence sectors as well as parts of the technology sector. From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Scherf worked as a special representative in the German Federal Ministry of Defence.
New participant.
Schimpf, Brian (USA), Co-Founder & CEO, Anduril Industries. He drives the strategic direction and product roadmap of the defense technology company. Prior to Anduril, Brian was an early hire at Palantir Technologies, where he built the Foundry product that is now deployed worldwide, and led the engineering and product organizations as Director of Engineering. He served numerous domestic and international government organizations across the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement sectors. Previously, Brian was the Founder and Lead of Cornell University’s autonomous vehicle research program where his teams competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge. Based on this work, he published several technical papers on autonomous vehicles. Brian graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. Note a Palantir and DARPA background. New participant.
Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc. Former CEO and Chair, Google. Member of the Steering Committee for several years. Google is big at Bilderberg. They like to spy on us, but he makes women wear masks in public when he is dating. Google execs have a bad history of relations with women. Google was created by DARPA and SRI and then given to two Jewish men who became instant billionaires.
Schmidt, Wolfgang (DEU), Former Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Head of the Chancellery. He is a lawyer and is very close to former Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He is one of their best spin doctors for the media. He also handles Finance and Foreign Affairs. He is crucial to bringing Germany into any Bilderberg plans. Returning participant.
Šefčovič, Maroš (INT), European Commissioner Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency. He is a former diplomat, who served in Zimbabwe, Canada, as well as the Slovak ambassador to Israel (1999–2002). He was also the Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the European Union (2004–2009). He has been a European Commissioner in various roles since 2010. Odd mixture. Communist party member in his youth. But campaigned LGTBQ marital and adoption rights. Returning participant.
Sewing, Christian (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG. Member of Steering Committe. Started working for Deutsche Bank when he was 19 and still in school. Worked several overseas locations. Sewing was the head of Deutsche Bank’s audit division during Deutsche Bank’s $10 billion money-laundering scandal involving its Moscow operations. The auditing division gave its Moscow office a clean bill of health, despite serious irregularities. The senior staff has had to take pay cuts as they are in dire financial straits.
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Minister of Foreign Affairs. He made uncomplimentary comments about the US in a bugged conversation. He was in charge of the Oxford Debate club. He was a member of the Bullingdon group, a very despicable bunch. David Cameron and Boris Johnson were members. He worked at AEI while in America. They are pro-Globalist and supposedly conservative group. Returning participant. Had been Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee since 2016. But he was dropped in 2025 though he is still attending.
Şimşek, Mehmet (TUR), Minister of Finance. He is Kurdish but serves in a Turkish government. He went to school at Exeter in England. He has experience with harsh economic conditions. He has served in many roles in the government. The UAE bugged his conversations. They look into all people critical of the UAE or have terrorist backgrounds. He is Kurdish. Was first time participant in 2024.
Smith, Jason (USA), Member of Congress. Jason Smith is a 7th generation Missourian, a 4th generation owner of his family’s farm, a citizen-legislator, and a champion for the rights and values of rural Missourians. Jason chairs the Ways and Means Committee. Very Suspicious. Probably supports AI and Palantir in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. First Time attender
Stoltenberg, Jens (NOR), Minister of Finance. He was twice PM of Norway. In 2011, Stoltenberg received the United Nations (UN) Champion of Global Change Award in New York City. That is a black mark in my book. Former Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee. But he was dropped in 2025 though he is still attending. He has a lot of explaining to do about NATO’s disaster in the Ukraine. Returning participant.
Streeting, Wes (GBR), Labour Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. He is in charge of NHS. The NHS is facing one of the toughest moments in its history, with the waiting list for routine hospital care at nearly 7.6 million and public satisfaction with the NHS at an all-time low. First Time attender.
Stubb, Alexander (FIN), President of the Republic. Stubb speaks five languages: Swedish, Finnish, English, French, and German. His father was Swedish. He graduated from Furman U in the US. Has a diploma from the Sorbonne and a PhD from the London School of Economics. He had been PM in the past. He is the sort of conservative who hangs out at the WEF in Davos and won their praises. Not Good. Returning participant.
Suleyman, Mustafa (USA), CEO, Microsoft AI. He is seen as one who wants to place ethical restraints on AI. Has done lots of charitable work. Seen as a Leftist. He is a returning participant. Bilderberg is serious about AI.
Summers, Lawrence (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University. An anonymous document published by American Intelligence Media stated that Larry Summers, then Harvard President, was in charge of the “government-sponsored military weaponization of a cyber-warfare project” which gave rise to Facebook. He wrote that Larry Summers “called Mark into his office early in his freshman year… Summers asked Mark to start a group to work on the social media project – a supposed competition among teachers and students to win a government contract. The ostensible goal was to create a social directory and Harvard where people could share in small groups. The real intent was to create a social network to manipulate the world.” Former Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee. WEF participant.
Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital LLC. Member of Steering Committe. He is bringing in the younger crowd of high tech billionaires the CIA and NSA will need to end anonymity on the Internet and then close down free speech. It should be noted that he is not an engineer. He is a lawyer and Stanford graduate. He worked as a derivatives trader and runs a Hedge Fund. He owned 10.2% of Facebook pre IPO. Thiel is a founder of PayPal which shuts down service to those who practice free speech on the Internet. He was an early investor in Facebook. PayPal has been linked by John Cruz to money laundering. He is a Libertarian. He defended Trump during the elections. He said: “Everyone says Trump is going to change everything way too much,” says the famed venture capitalist, contrarian and member of the Trump transition team. “Well, maybe Trump is going to change everything way too little. That seems like the much more plausible risk to me.”
Toulemon, Laurent (FRA), Senior Researcher, INED. Demographics and fertility researcher. New participant.
Uggla, Robert (DNK), Chair, A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S. Robert Maersk Uggla, CEO of AP Moller Holdings, is the fifth generation of the Maersk family to lead the company. New participant.
Valentini, Valentino (ITA), Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy. He wants traditional Italian firms to incorporate AI into their work. New participant.
Vassy, Luis (FRA), Director, Sciences Po. He was the cabinet director to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs between July 2022 and July 2024. Prior to that he served as Ambassador of France to the Netherlands and permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2019 until 2022. Bilderberg wants participants to influence major institutions. New participant.
Verhoeven, Karel (BEL), Editor-in-Chief, De Standaard. Bilderberg invites lots of journalists. His magazine seems to have struggled deeply while covering Covid. New participant.
Wallenberg, Jacob (SWE), Chair, Investor AB. They are meeting at his hotel.
Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB. He is a member of the famous Wallenberg family which was Jewish at one time. A Count Wallenberg was at Jerusalem in 1948 when he was murdered by a Zionist for being fair to Palestinians. He is a Director of several banks and of Coca-Cola. His family has a major stake in Astra Zeneca. He is a member of the Steering Committee.
Weder di Mauro, Beatrice (CHE), President, Centre for Economic Policy Research, , a leading network of economists in Europe. She holds the André Hoffmann Chair of Economics, Climate, and Nature Finance at the Geneva Graduate Institute and has served as a Research Professor at INSEAD Singapore and a Professor of Economics at Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Weder di Mauro has advised governments, international organizations, and central banks, including the European Commission, the governments of Germany and Switzerland, the ECB, Deutsche Bundesbank, and the IMF. She has also been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts and serves on the boards of major global companies such as Roche, UBS, and ThyssenKrupp. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, financial crises, and climate and nature finance. New participant.
Weel, David van (NLD), Minister of Justice and Security. Dutch politician. Has worked in Defense since 2005. New participant.
Wilmès, Sophie (INT), Vice-President, European Parliament. She is a prominent Belgian politician and member of the Reformist Movement (MR). She has served as Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and her recent election to the European Parliament marks a significant milestone in her political career. New participant.
Zakaria, Fareed (USA), Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS. Member of Steering Committe. He was born in Mumbai to a Muslim family. He has a PhD and had written lots of books. He supported Obama. His CNN show has poor ratings as do all CNN programs. He is a non-practicing Muslim married to a Christian woman. New participant in 2024 though he has attended the related Trilateral Commission. Lots of media attending. Bilderberg has lots of selling to the public to do.
Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Warner Bros. Discovery International. Member of Steering Committe. He used to run the German media group RTL. Media is important to Bilderberg. They need to control the minds of the proletariat. Remember Zbigniew Brzezinski’s famous quote. “It used to be easier to control a million people than to kill them. Now it is far easier to kill a million people than to control them. He died recently. Nobody in the media quoted that one. He is a long-time member. Elevated to the Steering Committee.
This is my most recent article and has lots of links to my reference articles.
America is Great because America is Good. If America ever ceases to be Good, America will cease to be Great.https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/america-is-great-because-america-is-good-if-america-ever-ceases-to-be-good-america-will-cease-to-be-great/
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China haunts Bilderberg talks as usual suspects plot world domination
The corporate, political and tech bigwigs meeting in Sweden are worried about an ‘authoritarian axis’ – maybe AI drones will fix things?
Charlie Skelton
Sun 15 Jun 2025 11.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/15/bilderberg-hroup
Deep within the glittering bowels of Stockholm’s fanciest hotel, grave ruminations on the future of the world are taking place.
A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting – the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists – hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.
The four days of transatlantic talks are taking place at the swanky Grand hotel, which is owned, like so much else in Sweden, by the Wallenbergs. The Swedish PM, Ulf Kristersson, turned up for welcome dinner on Thursday evening, and would have been about halfway through his second plate of meatballs when the first of Israel’s rockets dropped on Tehran.
What better time for the prospects of world war three to go up a gear than in the middle of a Bilderberg conflab, with nuclear proliferation slated for discussion, and the heads of Nato and MI6, and two of America’s most senior military officers in the room. They’re joined in Stockholm by the CEOs of several major defence suppliers such as Palantir, Thales and Anduril. Even the quietly spoken host of the conference, Marcus Wallenberg, happens to run an arms company. He’s chair of Sweden’s largest defence contractor, Saab.
The Tehran attacks slot happily into the conference agenda, which includes the topics “Middle East” and the rise of an “authoritarian axis” – what Bilderberg insider Nadia Schadlow, a former deputy US national security adviser, describes as “the growing collusion among revisionist powers”.
According to Schadlow: “An authoritarian axis is rapidly coalescing around China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, disrupting the belief that an international community has taken shape in the aftermath of the cold war.”
Earlier this year, the Economist magazine, whose editor sits alongside Schadlow on Bilderberg’s steering committee, struck a similar note, declaring: “The rupture of the post-1945 order is gaining pace.” But the Economist handed Donald Trump a fair chunk of the blame for “junking the transatlantic alliance”.
What this means for Bilderberg is that seven decades of hard work nurturing the postwar international order are in danger of going up in – literal – smoke.
Trump’s vice-president, JD Vance, has taken every opportunity to lever the US and Europe apart. “Europe being more independent”, he said recently, “is good for the United States.” Back last summer, before the election, he said: “The United States has to focus more on east Asia. That is going to be the future of US foreign policy for the next 40 years, and Europe has to wake up to that fact.” The presence in Stockholm of Samuel Paparo, the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, is a sign that Bilderberg has taken this to heart. Also, there’s another member of the “authoritarian axis” which looms far larger than Iran over this conference: China.
Though the name “China” doesn’t actually appear on this year’s agenda, the heightening struggle between America and China is a spectre which haunts at least half of the topics being discussed – from the “geopolitics of energy and critical minerals” to “defence innovation and resilience”.
Just a couple of months ago, Eric Schmidt, the former Google boss and longtime Bilderberg board member, warned that “China is at parity or pulling ahead of the United States in a variety of technologies, notably at the AI frontier”. Schmidt suspects that it will be only a matter of “three to five years” before some form of super-intelligent AI is achieved.
“The geopolitical stakes, especially in the race with China, are enormous,” he says, because attaining super-intelligent AI would mean total and unassailable military domination. In short, it would give the winner “the keys to control the entire world”.
But here’s the problem – “due to the immense power requirements of large-scale AI”, beating China to the super-intelligent punch would require “potentially 100 times more energy” than is currently available.
The head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, who is conferencing this year at Bilderberg, recently posted on X that “global electricity demand from data centres powering AI is set to soar in the next decade”.
In this desperate winner-takes-all race for the keys to the world, in which the “geopolitics of energy” becomes ever more important, power stations – along with the data centers they feed – are going to become the No 1 military targets.
Cue the AI drones.
For the time being, before AI invents completely new and unimagined ways for us all to kill each other, drones are perhaps the biggest practical application of AI in warfare. There’s a healthy swarm of drone manufacturers at this year’s Stockholm summit, sharing their hopes and fears about “defence innovation”.
Hovering alongside Eric Schmidt there’s the chairman of Thales – “a leader in the fast growing market of unmanned aircraft systems”. Buzzing nearby is Gundbert Scherf, co-founder of German drone and AI company Helsing. One of the early investors in Helsing is also present: the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, which presumably means that the Helsing drones will have the best playlists, booming out suggested songs as they swoop down to attack.
The investment interlinking of Bilderberg participants is particularly intense around autonomous drone tech. Saab is an investor in Helsing. Helsing is collaborating with leading AI company Mistral, whose CEO is attending the conference. Mistral was funded by Schmidt, who’s a huge fan of military UAVs.
Schmidt’s recent AI/drone expo, which took place last month in Washington, was co-sponsored by Palantir, which was set up by Bilderberg insider Peter Thiel, who is a major funder of Anduril, whose CEO, Brian Schimpf, is also in Stockholm. Schimpf is a former employee of Palantir, whose CEO, Alex Karp, is also on board of Bilderberg, having been ushered on to it by Thiel. And so it goes.
Thiel’s fingers can be found wriggling around in an awful lot of pies, not least the juiciest pie of all: the White House. The two senior White House officials at the Stockholm conference, Kevin Harrington and Michael Kratsios, both used to work for Thiel Capital. And Thiel’s famously long list of influential acolytes includes none other than Vance.
Only a few days ago, Vance was on a podcast defending Trump’s proposed Palantir-powered database on every citizen, which was described by MSNBC as “an unprecedented spy machine that could track Americans”. Vance waved away any such concerns: “I don’t believe that Palantir is collecting any information.”
Thank heavens for everyone’s freedoms, Palantir is run by self-confessed “classic liberal” Alex Karp. In a recent earnings call, the idiosyncratic CEO said his company was busy “building really great things”, in order “to power the west to its obvious innate superiority”.
Karp throbs with what he calls “productive narcissism” – at Palantir, he insists: “We’re proud of our moral stance”. His philosophy, as he sums it up, is this: “If you’ve done something big and important, you’re probably a good person.” Palantir is successful, ipso facto, it’s doing good.
As the Economist put it: “Fast approaching is a might-is-right world.” It’s a kind of Gordon Gekko morality that would be heartily approved of by Wall Street legend and Bilderberg faithful Henry Kravis of KKR, on whom Gekko was actually based.
Of course, not all the tech luminaries at this year’s Bilderberg are thinking in terms of world domination.
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of DeepMind, turned up in Stockholm with the 2024 Nobel prize for Chemistry in his back pocket and some rather more optimistic rhetoric about AI, which he thinks will usher in an era of “radical abundance”. He thinks of AI as “the cavalry” arriving to save us from ourselves.
He says: “I’d be very worried about society today if I didn’t know that something as transformative as AI was coming down the line.”
And Jack Clark, the co-founder of Anthropic, likes to think AI replace us in every last will help us find new ways of living fulfilling lives. His vision is of a world in which, freed up from our jobs, we’ll engage in “creative, fun exercises in getting AIs to build things, or make things, or carry out competitions and games where people can play them with one another”.
Pulling back for a moment from the AI endgame to the world in 2025, there’s one rather less jazzy item on the conference agenda worth mentioning – “US economy”.
But even this has everything to do with China. Taking part in the Stockholm summit is Republican congressman Jason Smith, a vocal fan of Trump’s “America first” trade policy. Smith has pledged to “continue fighting to combat the economic and national security threat China poses to our great nation”. He’s fully aligned with fellow conference goer Robert Lighthizer, an influential economic adviser close to Trump, who told CBS News earlier this year that “China to me is an existential threat to the United States”.
Lighthizer is urging a “strategic decoupling” from Chinese trade, and most importantly, he says: “We should disentangle our technology.”
Here’s where Trump’s trade vision intersects with not just the long view of Silicon Valley’s bullish billionaires, but with the longstanding transatlantic vision of Bilderberg. Thiel recently called for “a very drastic reset with China” and urged other nations to do likewise.
In other words, look at our success, and join us. Of course, the only thing wrong with this self-fulfilling meritocratic version of western civilization is that if the Chinese succeed in beating the west to the keys of the world, it will mean that they were the good guys after all.
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