2007 Bilderberg Meeting

The Bilderberg Group met from May 31 to June 3 in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Istanbul, Turkey. The occupation and information on nationality of the participants are given as they appeared on the delegate list. [ [http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Bilderberg2007.html Bilderberg 2007 - Towards a One World Empire?] , [http://www.nexusmagazine.com/ Nexus Magazine] , Volume 14, Number 5 (August - September 2007), accessed on August 18 2007]

This year one participating journalist, Mehmet Ali Birand published two articles related to the Bilderberg Conference during the time it took place. Birand denies having witnessed that any secret plots were discussed, and describes the Bilderberg conference being like any other large international conference.Validity of his account is questionable when one of the other participants was Cem Duna, former Turkish ambassador to the European Union and chairman of Doğan Yayın Holding which owns the Turkish Daily News for which Mr.Birand writes. Birand also confirms the attendance to Bilderberg Conferences by Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair. [ [http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=74734 Why are we scared of Bilderberg?] , Turkish Daily News, June 1 2007, accessed on August 18 2007] [http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=74966 What was discussed at Bilderberg?] , Turkish Daily News, June 5 2007, accessed on August 18 2007]

Alphabetic list of participants

A

* Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
* Georgios Alogoskoufis, Minister for Economy and Finance, Greece

B

* Ali Babacan, Minister for Economic Affairs, Turkey [http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=112943 Controversial elite group meets in İstanbul] , Today's Zaman, June 2 2007, accessed on August 17 2007]
* Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, Impresa SGPS, former Prime Minister, Portugal
* Michel Barnier, Vice President, Merieux Alliance; former Minister for Foreign Affairs, France
* Michael Barone, Senior Writer, US News & World Report USA
* Martin Bartenstein, Federal Minister of Economics and Labour, Austria
* Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, France
* Her Majesty Queen Beatrix, Queen of The Netherlands
* Leonor Beleza, President, Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
* Franco Bernabé, Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe, Italy
* Rosina M. Bierbaum, Professor and Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, USA
* Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs, former Prime Minister, Sweden
* Mehmet A. Birand, Columnist Turkey [see above] ]
* Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co, USA
* Anders Borg, Minister for Finance, Sweden
* Charles G. Boyd, President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security, USA
* Ümit Boyner, Member, Executive Board, Boyner Holding, Turkey [see above] ]
* (Rapporteur) Vendeline A. H. von Bredow, Business Correspondent, The Economist
* Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group USA
* Oscar Bronner, Publisher and Editor, Der Standard, Austria
* Hubert Burda, Publisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding, Germany
* Gerald Butts, Principal Secretary, Office of the Premier of Ontario, Canada

C

* Cengiz Çandar, Journalist, Referans, Turkey [see above] ]
* Henri de Castries, Chairman of Management Board and CEO, AXA, France
* Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, Grupo PRISA media group (Spain)
* Hikmet Çetin, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and former NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, Turkey [see above] ]
* Kenneth Clarke, Member of Parliament, UK
* Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, USA
*Hillary Clinton , junior United States Senator from New York USA

D

* Frans van Daele, Permanent Representative of Belgium to NATO, Belgium
* George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola HBC SA, Greece
* (Honorary Chairman) Etienne Davignon, Vice-Chairman, Suez-Tractebel, Belgium
* Richard Dearlove, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge UK
* Kemal Dervis, Administrator, UNDP, Turkey [see above] ]
* Anna Diamantopoulou, Member of Parliament, Greece
* Thomas E. Donilon, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, USA
* Mathias Döpfner, Chairman and CEO, Axel Springer AG, Germany
* Cem Duna, Former Ambassador to the European Union, Turkey [see above] ]
* Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings, Inc., USA

E

* Anders Eldrup, President, DONG Energy, Denmark
* John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat SpA, Italy

F

* Ulrik Federspiel, Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Denmark
* Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA

G

* Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA
* Paul A. Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal, USA
* Eival Gilady, CEO, The Portland Trust, Israel
* Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group, Ireland
* Emre Gönensay, Professor of Economics, Isik University, and former Minister for Foreign Affairs Turkey [see above] ]
* Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group, USA
* Alfred Gusenbauer, Federal Chancellor, Austria

H

* Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, USA
* Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University, former Honorary Secretary-General of Bilderberg Meetings, The Netherlands
* Peter D. Hart, Chairman, Peter D. Hart Research Associates, USA
* Frank Heemskerk, Minister for Foreign Trade, The Netherlands
* Paul Hermelin, CEO, Cap Gemini SA, France
* Richard Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, USA
* Jan H. M. Hommen, Chairman, Reed Elsevier NV, The Netherlands
* Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary-General, NATO, The Netherlands/International

J

* Atte Jääskeläinen, Director of News, Sports and Regional Programmes, YLE, Finland [http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=15865&group=Politics Finland's Katainen to attend Bilderberg conference] , Newroom Finland, May 31 2007, accessed on August 16 2007]
* Kenneth Jacobs, Deputy Chairman, Head of Lazard USA, Lazard Freres & Co LLC, USA
* James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC USA
* Vernon E. Jordan, Jr, Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co LLC, USA
* His Majesty, King Juan Carlos I, King of Spain

K

* Jyrki Katainen, Minister of Finance, Finland [see above] ]
* Jason Kenney, Member of Parliament, Canada
* Muhtar Kent, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA
* John Kerr (Lord Kerr of Kinlochard), Member, House of Lords, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, UK
* Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, USA
* Eckart von Klaeden, Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU / CSU, Germany
* Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany
* Mustafa V. Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding AS, Turkey [see above] ]
* Bruce Kovner, Chairman, Caxto Associates LLC, USA
* Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., USA
* Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc., USA
* Idar Kreutzer, CEO, Storebrand ASA (The Netherlands)
* Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission, The Netherlands/ International

L

* Bernardino Leon Gross, Secretary of State Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Spain
* Mogens Lykketoft, Member of Parliament, Denmark
* William J. Luti, Special Assistant to the President for Defense Policy and Strategy, National Security Council, USA

M

* Jessica Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
* Michael McDowell, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Ireland
* John Micklethwait, Editor, The Economist, UK
* Mario Monti, President, University Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy
* Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation, USA
* Egil Myklebust, Chairman, SAS and Norsk Hydro ASA, Norway

N

* Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit, Germany
* Joanne Nordquist, Avian Headmaster, American Council of Avian Research, USA
* Ewald Nowotny, CEO, BAWAG PSK. Austria

O

* Christine Ockrent, Editor-in-Chief, France Television (France)
* Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chairman and CEO, Nokia Corporation, Finland [see above] ]
* George Osborne, MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK

P

* Laurence Parisot, President, MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France), France
* Christopher Patten, Member, House of Lords (UK)
* Richard Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, USA
* Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, USA [ [http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=185207 Critics wary of Perry's trip to Istanbul] , News 8 Austin, May 31 2007, accessed on August 18 2007]
* Volker Perthes, Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany
* HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium, Belgium;

R

* Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo, Managing Director, IMF, International
* Olli Rehn, Commissioner, European Commission, International
* Heather Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc., Canada
* Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Banco Santander Central Hispano, Spain
* Olivier Roy, Senior Researcher, CNRS, France

S

* Paolo Scaroni, CEO, Eni SpA, Italy
* Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO, Google, USA
* Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Österreichische Kontrollbank AG, Austria
* Jürgen E. Schrempp, former Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
* Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
* Robert W. Scully, Co-President, Morgan Stanley, USA
* Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas, USA
* Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, UN World Food Programme, USA
* Kristen Silverberg, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Interational Organization Affairs, USA
* Domenico Siniscalco, Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley, Italy
* Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and the Western European Union, International
* Her Majesty Queen Sophia, Queen of Spain
* Ayse Soysal, Rector, Bosphorus University, Turkey [see above] ]
* Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University, USA
* Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP PLC, and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, Ireland
* Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sweden

T

* Paul A. Taggart, Professor of Politics, University of Sussex, UK
* Sidney Taurel, Chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company, USA
* J. Martin Taylor, Chairman, Syngenta International AG, UK
* Peter A. Thiel, President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC, USA
* Teija Tiilikainen, State Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland [see above] ]
* Michel Tilmant, Chairman, ING Group NV, The Netherlands
* Jean-Claude Trichet, Governor, European Central Bank, France/International

U

* Jens Ulltveit-Moe, CEO, Umoe AS, Norway

V

* Daniel Vasella, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG, Switzerland
* Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, The Netherlands

W

* Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB, Sweden
* Vin Weber, Partner, Clark & Weinstock, USA
* Guido Westerwelle, Chairman, Free Democratic Party (Germany) [ [http://www3.liberale.de/webcom/show_article.php?wc_c=567&wc_id=1574&wc_p=1 Westerwelle traf Gül - EU-Beitritt im Zentrum der Gespräche] , May 30 2007, Free Democratic Party (Germany) Website, accessed on August 18 2007]
* Ross Wilson, Ambassador to Turkey, USA
* James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, USA
* Paul Wolfowitz, President, The World Bank, International
* Joseph R. Wood, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President, National Security Affairs, USA
* (Rapporteur) Adrian Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The Economist

Y

* Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, President, TÜSIAD, Turkey [see above] ]
* Erkut Yücaoğlu, Chairman of the Board, MAP, former President, TÜSIAD, Turkey [see above] ]

Z

* Philip D. Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA
* Robert B. Zoellick, former US Trade Representative, former Deputy Secretary of State, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs, USA

See also

*2003 Bilderberg Meeting
*Daniel Estulin
*New World Order (conspiracy theory)

References

External links

* [http://www.danielestulin.com/?op=noticias&noticias=ver&id=318&idioma=en Bilderberg 2007: Welcome to the Lunatic Fringe]