Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Group holds "by invitation only" annual meetings of the rich and powerful. About two-thirds of the attendees are European, the rest American. Informally named for the site of the group's first meeting, the Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Josef Ackermann |
Business |
7-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of Deutsche Bank |
| Umberto Agnelli |
Business |
1-Nov-1934 |
27-May-2004 |
Chairman of Fiat, 2003-04 |
| Fouad Ajami |
Author |
9-Sep-1945 |
22-Jun-2014 |
Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS |
| Keith B. Alexander |
Military |
1952 |
|
Former Director of U.S. National Security Agency |
| Paul Allaire |
Business |
21-Jul-1938 |
|
Twice CEO of Xerox |
| Graham T. Allison |
Scholar |
23-Mar-1940 |
|
Kennedy School of Government |
| Joaquin Almunia |
Politician |
17-Jun-1948 |
|
EU Economic Affairs Commissioner |
| Roger C. Altman |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Evercore Partners |
| Ed Balls |
Politician |
25-Feb-1967 |
|
British MP, Normanton |
| Robert L. Bartley |
Editor |
12-Oct-1937 |
10-Dec-2003 |
Editor of the Wall Street Journal, 1979-2003 |
| Evan Bayh |
Politician |
26-Dec-1955 |
|
US Senator from Indiana, 1999-2011 |
| Queen Beatrix I |
Royalty |
31-Jan-1938 |
|
Queen of the Netherlands, 1980-2013 |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 2006-14 |
| Prince Bernhard |
Royalty |
29-Jun-1911 |
1-Dec-2004 |
Prince of the Netherlands |
| Carl Bildt |
Head of State |
15-Jul-1949 |
|
Foreign Minister of Sweden |
| Conrad Black |
Business |
25-Aug-1944 |
|
Rapacious newspaper mogul |
| Charles G. Boyd |
Military |
15-Apr-1938 |
|
Retired General, US Air Force |
| John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
| John H. Bryan |
Business |
5-Oct-1936 |
|
CEO of Sara Lee, 1975-2000 |
| William F. Buckley |
Columnist |
24-Nov-1925 |
27-Feb-2008 |
National Review |
| William Bundy |
Government |
24-Sep-1917 |
6-Oct-2000 |
Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ |
| Peter Carington |
Government |
6-Jun-1919 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1979-82 |
| Henri de Castries |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of AXA |
| Ahmed Chalabi |
Government |
30-Oct-1944 |
3-Nov-2015 |
Prominent on the Iraqi Provisional Council |
| Raymond Chrétien |
Diplomat |
20-May-1942 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US, 1995-2000 |
| W. Edmund Clark |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank |
| Kenneth Clarke |
Politician |
2-Jul-1940 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-97 |
| Bill Clinton |
Head of State |
19-Aug-1946 |
|
42nd US President, 1993-2001 |
| Marshall A. Cohen |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Molson, 1988-96 |
| Timothy C. Collins |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
Private equity, Ripplewood Holdings |
| Bertrand P. Collomb |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Lafarge SA, 1987-2003 |
| Jon Corzine |
Politician |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 2006-10 |
| Chester A. Crocker |
Government |
29-Oct-1941 |
|
Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89 |
| Claes Dahlbäck |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Investor AB, 1978-99 |
| Tom Daschle |
Politician |
9-Dec-1947 |
|
US Senator from South Dakota, 1987-2005 |
| Paul G. Desmarais, Jr. |
Business |
3-Jul-1954 |
|
Co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada |
| John Deutch |
Government |
27-Jul-1938 |
|
CIA Director, 1995-96 |
| Chris Dodd |
Politician |
27-May-1944 |
|
US Senator from Connecticut, 1981-2011 |
| Thomas E. Donilon |
Government |
14-May-1955 |
|
US National Security Advisor |
| Esther Dyson |
Business |
14-Jul-1951 |
|
EDventure Holdings, former ICANN director |
| Murray Edwards |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
Canadian Natural Resources |
| Martha J. Farah |
Psychologist |
c. 1955 |
|
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn |
| Dianne Feinstein |
Politician |
22-Jun-1933 |
|
US Senator from California |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| Anthony S. Fell |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Chairman, RBC Capital Markets |
| Harold Ford |
Politician |
11-May-1970 |
|
Congressman from Tennessee, 1997-2007 |
| Stephen Friedman |
Business |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| Thomas Friedman |
Journalist |
20-Jul-1953 |
|
New York Times |
| Melinda Gates |
Philanthropist |
15-Aug-1964 |
|
Married to Bill Gates |
| Timothy F. Geithner |
Government |
18-Aug-1961 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 2009-13 |
| David Gergen |
Columnist |
9-May-1942 |
|
Advisor to Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton |
| Paul Gigot |
Columnist |
1955 |
|
Wall Street Journal columnist |
| Donald E. Graham |
Journalist |
22-Apr-1945 |
|
CEO of Washington Post |
| Katharine Graham |
Publisher |
16-Jun-1917 |
17-Jul-2001 |
Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
| Richard Haass |
Government |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Chuck Hagel |
Politician |
4-Oct-1946 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 2013-15 |
| Richard C. Holbrooke |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1941 |
13-Dec-2010 |
US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| Allan Hubbard |
Economist |
8-Sep-1947 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
| Kenneth Jacobs |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Lazard North America |
| Merit E. Janow |
Educator |
13-May-1958 |
|
Professor of Int'l Affairs, Columbia University |
| Peter Jennings |
Journalist |
29-Jul-1938 |
7-Aug-2005 |
Former anchor, ABC World News Tonight |
| James A. Johnson |
Business |
24-Dec-1943 |
|
CEO of Fannie Mae, 1991-98 |
| J. Bennett Johnston |
Politician |
10-Jun-1932 |
|
US Senator from Louisiana, 1972-97 |
| Vernon Jordan |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Advisor to Bill Clinton |
| Muhtar Kent |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Coca-Cola |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 |
| Klaus Kleinfeld |
Business |
6-Nov-1957 |
|
President and COO of Alcoa |
| Andrew S. B. Knight |
Journalist |
1-Nov-1939 |
|
Editor of The Economist, 1974-86 |
| Henry Kravis |
Business |
6-Jan-1944 |
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
| Marie-Josée Kravis |
Economist |
11-Sep-1949 |
|
President of MoMA |
| Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
| Neelie Kroes |
Government |
19-Jul-1941 |
|
EU Commissioner of Competition |
| Jan Leschly |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of SmithKline Beecham, 1994-2000 |
| William J. Luti |
Military |
c. 1952 |
|
NSC Defense Policy Adviser |
| Peter Mandelson |
Politician |
21-Oct-1953 |
|
EU Commissioner for Trade |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Charles Mathias |
Politician |
24-Jul-1922 |
25-Jan-2010 |
US Senator from Maryland, 1969-87 |
| Charlie McCreevy |
Politician |
30-Sep-1948 |
|
EU Commissioner, Internal Market and Services |
| William J. McDonough |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
President of New York Fed, 1993-2003 |
| Frank J. McKenna |
Politician |
19-Jan-1948 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US, 2005-06 |
| Tom McKillop |
Business |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland |
| George J. Mitchell |
Politician |
20-Aug-1933 |
|
US Senator from Maine, 1980-95 |
| Bill Moyers |
Journalist |
6-Jun-1934 |
|
NOW with Bill Moyers |
| Craig Mundie |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CTO of Microsoft |
| George Pataki |
Politician |
24-Jun-1945 |
|
Governor of New York, 1995-2006 |
| Henry M. Paulson |
Business |
28-Mar-1946 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 2006-09 |
| Frank H. Pearl |
Business |
27-May-1943 |
4-May-2012 |
CEO of Perseus LLC |
| Richard Perle |
Government |
16-Sep-1941 |
|
Prince of Darkness |
| Rick Perry |
Politician |
4-Mar-1950 |
|
Governor of Texas, 2000-15 |
| Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1965 |
|
Prime Minister of Sweden |
| Bill Richardson |
Politician |
15-Nov-1947 |
|
Governor of New Mexico, 2003-11 |
| Rozanne L. Ridgway |
Diplomat |
22-Aug-1935 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State for Europe, 1985-89 |
| Don Riegle |
Politician |
4-Feb-1938 |
|
US Senator from Michigan, 1976-95 |
| David Rockefeller |
Business |
12-Jun-1915 |
|
Founder of the Trilateral Commission |
| Charlie Rose |
Talk Show Host |
5-Jan-1942 |
|
Charlie Rose Show |
| Dennis B. Ross |
Diplomat |
26-Nov-1948 |
|
US Middle East Envoy, 1992-2000 |
| Lynn Forester de Rothschild |
Business |
2-Jul-1954 |
|
Telecom executive |
| Barnett R. Rubin |
Educator |
10-Jan-1950 |
|
The Fragmentation of Afghanistan |
| Mark Sanford |
Politician |
28-May-1960 |
|
Governor of South Carolina, 2003-11 |
| Jaap de Hoop Scheffer |
Politician |
3-Apr-1948 |
|
NATO Secretary General, 2004-09 |
| Eric Schmidt |
Business |
27-Apr-1955 |
|
CEO of Google, 2001-11 |
| Robert W. Scully |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Morgan Stanley Asset Management |
| Kathleen Sebelius |
Politician |
15-May-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Health and Human Services |
| John Shad |
Government |
27-Jun-1923 |
Jul-1994 |
SEC Chairman, 1981-87 |
| Robert B. Shapiro |
Business |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000 |
| George Shultz |
Government |
13-Dec-1920 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1982-89 |
| George Soros |
Business |
12-Aug-1930 |
|
Financial speculator |
| Lesley Stahl |
Journalist |
16-Dec-1941 |
|
60 Minutes |
| James B. Steinberg |
Government |
7-May-1953 |
|
Deputy Secretary of State |
| Dennis Stevenson |
Business |
19-Jul-1945 |
|
Chairman of HBOS |
| Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
| Peter Sutherland |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
First Director General of the WTO |
| Peter Thiel |
Business |
11-Oct-1967 |
|
Co-Founder of PayPal |
| Jean-Claude Trichet |
Business |
20-Dec-1942 |
|
President, European Central Bank |
| Sanam Vakil |
Educator |
? |
|
Mideast Scholar, SAIS |
| John Vinocur |
Journalist |
? |
|
International Herald Tribune correspondent |
| Vin Weber |
Politician |
24-Jul-1952 |
|
Congressman from Minnesota, 1981-93 |
| John C. Whitehead |
Business |
2-Apr-1922 |
7-Feb-2015 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89 |
| Christine Todd Whitman |
Government |
26-Sep-1946 |
|
GWB's first head of EPA |
| Michael H. Wilson |
Politician |
4-Nov-1937 |
|
Canadian Ambassador to the US |
| James Wolfensohn |
Business |
1-Dec-1933 |
|
World Bank president, 1995-2005 |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
President of the World Bank, 2005-07 |
| Daniel Yergin |
Author |
6-Feb-1947 |
|
The Prize |
| Fareed Zakaria |
Journalist |
20-Jan-1965 |
|
Time columnist |
| Philip Zelikow |
Government |
21-Sep-1954 |
|
9-11 Commission executive director |
| Robert Zoellick |
Government |
25-Jul-1953 |
|
World Bank president, 2007-12 |
