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BILDERBERG MEETINGS
PineIsle Resort near Atlanta, U.S.A.
June 12-15, 1997
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Chairman:
GB Carrington, Peter Former Secretary General, NATO; Former Chairman of the Board, Christies
International plc
Honorary Secretary General:
NL Victor Halberstadt Professor of Public Economics, Leiden University
| I | Agnelli, Giovanni | Honorary Chairman, Fiat S.p.A. |
| I | Agnelli, Umberto | Chairman, IFIL S.p.A. |
| USA | Allaire, Paul A. | Chairman, Xerox Corporation |
| DK | Andersen, Bodil Nyboe | Governor, Central Bank of Denmark |
| USA | Armacost, Michael H. | President, The Brookings Institution |
| P | Balsemao, Francisco Pinto | Professor of Communication Science, University, Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister |
| S | Barnevik, Percy | Chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. |
| USA | Bartley, Robert L. | Editor, Wall Street Journal |
| CDN | Bassett, Isabel | Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance, Government of Ontario |
| USA | Bentsen, Lloyd M. | Former Secretary of the Treasury; Partner, Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand, Chartered |
| USA | Berger, Samuel R. | Assistant to the President for Security Affairs |
| NL | Bergh, Maarten A. van den | Group Managing Director, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies |
| USA | Bergsten, C. Fred | Director, Institute for International Economics |
| USA | Bernstein, Richard | Book Critic, New York Times |
| NL | Beugel, Ernst H. van der | Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Meetings for Europe and Canada |
| TR | Beyazit, Selahattin | Director of Companies |
| INT | Bildt, Carl | The High Representative |
| TR | Bilgin, Dinc | Chairman of the Board, Sabah A.S. |
| CDN | Black, Conrad M. | Chairman, The Telegraph plc |
| H | Bokros, Lajos | Senior Adviser, The World Bank |
| P | Borges, Antonio | Dean, INSEAD |
| GB | Browne, E. John P. | Group Chief Executive, The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. |
| USA | Bryan, John H. | Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee Corporation |
| GB | Buchanan, Robin W.T. | Senior Partner, Bain & Company |
| D | Burda, Hubert | Chairman, Burda Media |
| CH | Butler, Hugo | Editor in Chief, Neue Zurcher Zeitung |
| GR | Carras, Costa | Director of Companies |
| D | Cartellieri, Ulrich | Member of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG |
| E | Carvajal Urquijo, Jaime | Chairman and General Manager, Iberfomento |
| F | Collomb, Bertrand | Chairman and CEO, Lafarge |
| USA | Corzine, Jon S. | Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co. |
| CH | Cotti, Flavio | Federal Councillor and Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| GB | Cranborne, Robert M.J.C. | Leader of the Opposition in the House Lords |
| USA | Dam, Kenneth W. | Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law, The University of Chicago Law School |
| GR | David, George A. | Chairman of the Board, Hellenic Company S.A. |
| B | Davignon, Etienne | Executive Chairman, Societe Generale Belgique; Former Vice Chairman of the Commission of the European Communities |
| B | Donnea, Francois X. de | Former Minister of Defense; Mayor of Brussels; Member of Parliament |
| DK | Ellemann-Jensen, Uffe | Chairman, Liberal Party |
| TR | Ercel, Gazi | Governor, Central Bank of Turkey |
| TR | Erguder, Ustun | Rector, Bosporus University |
| CDN | Frum, David | Political Commentator |
| USA | Gadiesh, Orit | Chairman of the Board, Bain & Company Inc. |
| P | Galvao Teles, Jose M. | Lawyer, Member of the Social Party, Member of the Council of State |
| F | Gergorin, Jean-Louis | Member of the Board of Directors, to the Chairman Strategic Matra Hachette |
| USA | Gerstner, Jr., Louis V. | Chairman, IBM Corporation |
| USA | Hamilton, Lee H. | Congressman (D, Indiana) |
| N | Hoegh, Westye | Chairman of the Board, Leif Hoegh & Co. ASA; Former President, Norwegian Shipowners Association |
| USA | Holbrooke, Richard C. | Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; Vice Chairman, CS First |
| GB | Hutton, Will | Editor, The Observer |
| B | Huyghebaert, Jan | Chairman, Almanij-Kredietbank Groep |
| FIN | Iloniemi, Jaakko | Managing Director, Centre for Finnish Business and Policy Studies; Former Ambassador to the United States of America |
| D | Issing, H.C. Otmar | Member of the Board, Deutsche |
| GB | Jacobi, Mary Jo | Head of Group Public Affairs, HSBC Holdings plc; Former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce |
| INT | Johnston, Donald J. | Secretary-General, OECD |
| USA | Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. | Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (Attorneys-at-Law) |
| USA | Kissinger, Henry A. | Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. |
| NL | Korteweg, Pieter | President and CEO, Robeco Group |
| A | Kothbauer, Max | Director of Companies |
| GR | Kiranidiotis, Yannos | Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| F | Levy-Lang, Andre | Chairman of the Board of Management, Banque Paribas |
| USA | Lewis, William W. | Director of McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company |
| GB | Mabro, Robert E. | Director, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |
| USA | McDonough, William J. | President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| A | Mitterbauer, Peter | Chairman, Miba AG |
| F | Montbrial, Thierry de | Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique |
| CDN | Munroe-Blum, Heather | Vice-President, Research and International Relations, University of Toronto |
| N | Myklebust, Egil | Chief Executive, Norsk Hydro |
| D | Nass, Matthias | Managing Editor, Die Zeit |
| NL | Netherlands, Her Majesty the Queen of the | |
| FIN | Niinisto, Sauli V. | Minister of Finance |
| USA | Nunn, Sam | Former Senator (D, Georgia) |
| ICE | Oddsson, David | Prime Minister |
| PL | Olechowski, Andrzej | Chairman, Central Europe Trust, Poland |
| FIN | Ollila, Jorma | President and CEO, Nokia Corporation |
| USA | Page, Jr., John M. | Chief Economist, Middle East and Africa Region, The World Bank |
| USA | Powell, Colin L. | Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| CH | Pury, David de | Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co. Ltd. |
| IRL | Quinn, Lochlann | Chairman, Allied Irish Bank Group |
| GB | Robertson, Simon | Former Chairman, Kleinwort Benson Group plc |
| USA | Rockefeller, David | Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee |
| USA | Rockefeller, Sharon Percy | President and CEO, WETA-TV and FM (PBS) |
| E | Rodriguez Inciarte, Matias | Vice Chairman, Banco de Santander |
| GB | Roll, Eric | Senior Adviser, SBC Warburg |
| I | Rossella, Carlo | Editor, Editrice La Stampa S.p.A. |
| F | Roy, Olivier | University Professor and Researcher, Laboratoire Monde Iranien, CNRS |
| CDN | Sabia, Maureen | Corporate Director and President, Maureen Sabia International |
| P | Salgado, Ricardo Espirito Santo | President and CEO, Banco Espirito |
| D | Schrempp, Jurgen E. | Chairman of the Board of Management, Daimler-Benz AG |
| INT | Schwab, Klaus | President, World Economic Forum |
| DK | Seidenfaden, Toger | Editor in Chief, Politiken A/S |
| USA | Sheinkman, Jack | Chairman of the Board, Amalgamated |
| I | Silvestri, Stefano | Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali; former Undersecretary of Defense |
| USA | Stahl, Lesley R. | National Affairs Correspondent, CBS |
| USA | Stephanopoulos, George | Visiting Professor, Columbia; Former Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy |
| H | Suryanyi, Gyorgy | President, National Bank of Hungary |
| IRL | Sutherland, Peter D. | Chairman and Managing Director, Sachs International; Former Director General, GATT and WTO |
| S | Svedberg, Bjorn | President and CEO, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken |
| TR | Tara, Sinan | Vice President, Enka Construction & Ind. Inc. |
| GB | Taylor, J. Martin | Chief Executive, Barclays PLC |
| GB | Villeneuve, Andre-Francois H. | Executive Director, Reuters Group Holdings plc |
| USA | Vogel, Ezra F. | Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Harvard University |
| USA | Volcker, Paul A. | Chairman, BT Wolfensohn |
| A | Vranitzky, Franz | Former Federal Chancellor |
| INT | Vries, Gijs M. de | Chairman, Liberal Group, European Parliament |
| S | Wallenberg, Marcus | Executive Vice President, Investor AB |
| USA | Weiss, Stanley A. | Chairman, Business Executives for National Security, Inc |
| USA | Whitehead, John C. | Former Deputy Secretary of State |
| INT | Wolfensohn, James D. | President, The World Bank |
| D | Wolff von Amerongen, Otto | Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH |
| USA | Wolfowitz, Paul | Dean, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy |
| NL | Wijffels, Herman H.F. | Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Nederland |
| GB | Yahuda, Michael B. | Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics |
| USA | Yost, Casimir A. | Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington |
Agenda
June 12-15, 1997 – Lake (Sidney) Lanier Island, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Racial Harmony
World Without Borders
Most Favored Nation (MFN) for China
European Union
American Union