Become a Patron!
True Information is the most valuable resource and we ask you to give back.
BILDERBERG MEETINGS
Turnberry Hotel, Ayrshire, Scotland
May 14-17, 1998
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
CHAIRMAN:
GB Carrington, Peter Former Chairman of the Board, Christies International PLC; Former Secretary
General, NATO
HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL:
NL Halberstadt, Victor Professor of Public Economics, Leiden University
| I | Agnelli, Giovanni | Honorary Chairman, Fiat S.p.A. |
| USA | Allaire, Paul A. | Chairman, Xerox Corporation |
| E | Almunia Amann, Joaquin | Secretary General, Socialist Party |
| P | Balsemao, Francisco Pinto | Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister |
| S | Barnevik, Percy | Chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. |
| TR | Bayar, Ugur | Chairman, Privitization Administration |
| I | Bernabe, Franco | Managing Director, ENI S.p.A. |
| D | Bertram, Christoph | Director, Foundation Science and Policy, Former Diplomatic Correspondent, Die Zeit |
| NL | Beugel, Ernst H. van der | Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings for Europe and Canada |
| CDN | Black, Conrad | Chairman, The Telegraph plc |
| INT | Bonino, Emma | Member of the European Commission |
| INT | Brittan, Leon | Vice President of the European Commission |
| GB | Browne, John | Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum Company plc |
| IRL | Bruton, John | Leader of Fine Gael |
| GB | Buchanan, Robin | Senior Partner, Bain and Company Inc. UK |
| D | Burda, Hubert | Chairman, Burda Media |
| E | Carvajal Urquijo, Jaime | Chairman, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson S.A. (Spain) |
| I | Cavalchini, Luigi G. | Permanent Representative to the European Union |
| TR | Cem, Ismail | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| CDN | Chretien, Raymond A.J. | Ambassador to the U.S. |
| RUS | Chubais, Anatoli B. | Former First Vice Prime Minister; Chairman RAO EES |
| GB | Clarke, Kenneth | Member of Parliament |
| F | Collomb, Bertrand | Chairman and CEO, Lafarge |
| INT | Courtis, Kenneth S. | First Vice President, Research Department, Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific |
| P | Coutinho, Vasco Pereira | Chairman, IPC Holding |
| INT | Crockett, Andrew | General Manager, Bank for International Settlements |
| GR | David, George A. | Chairman of the Board, Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. |
| B | Davignon, Etienne | Executive Chairman, Societe Generale de Belgique; Former Vice Chairman of the Commission of the European Communities |
| USA | Deutch, John M. | Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry; Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Former Deputy Secretary of Defense |
| CDN | Dion, Stephane | Queens Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs |
| USA | Donilon, Thomas | Partner, OMelveny & Myers; Former Assistant Secretary of State, and Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of State. |
| DK | Ellemann-Jensen, Uffe | Chairman, Liberal Party |
| D | Engelen-Kefer, Ursula | Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB |
| USA | Feldstein, Martin S. | President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. |
| INT | Fischer, Stanley | First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund |
| USA | Forester, Lynn | President and CEO, FirstMark Holdings Inc. |
| USA | Gadiesh, Orit | Chairman of the Board, Bain and Company Inc. |
| F | Gregorin, Jean-Louis | Member of the Board of Directors, Matra Hachette |
| TR | Gezgin Eris, Meral | President IKV (Economic Development Foundation) |
| B | Goossens, John | President and CEO, Belgacom |
| GB | Grierson, Ronald | Former Vice Chairman, GEC |
| USA | Grossman, Marc | Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State |
| F | Guetta, Bernard | Editor in Chief, Le Nouvel Observateur |
| GB | Hague, William | Leader of the Opposition |
| GB | Hannay, David | Prime Ministers Personal Envoy for Turkey; Former Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
| USA | Hoagland, Jim | Associate Editor, The Washington Post |
| N | Hoegh, Westye | Chairman of the Board, Leif Hoegh and Co. A.S.A.; Former President, Norwegian Shipowners Association |
| NL | Hoeven, Cees H. van der | President, Royal Ahold |
| USA | Hoge, Jr., James F. | Editor, Foreign Affairs |
| GB | Hogg, Christopher | Chairman, Reuters Group plc |
| USA | Holbrooke, Richard C. | Former Assistant Secretary for European Affairs; Vice Chairman, CS First Boston |
| P | Horta e Costa, Miguel | Vice-President, Portugal Telecom |
| D | Ishinger, Wolfgang | Political Director, Foreign Office |
| D | Issing, Otmar | Member of the Board, Deutsche Bundesbank |
| GB | Jenkins, Michael | Vice Chairman, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson |
| USA | Johnson, James A. | Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae |
| USA | Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. | Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (Attorneys-at-Law) |
| GB | Kaletsky, Anatole | Associate Editor, The Times |
| GR | Karamanlis, Kostas A. | Leader of the Opposition |
| TR | Kirac, Suna | Vice Chairman of the Board, Koc Holding A.S. |
| USA | Kissinger, Henry A. | Former Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc. |
| INT | Kohnstamm, Max | Senior Consultant, The European Policy Center |
| D | Kopper, Hilmar | Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank A.G. |
| NL | Korteweg, Pieter | President and CEO, Robeco Group |
| CZ | Kovanda, Karel | Head of Mission to the Czech Republic to NATO and the WEU |
| USA | Kravis, Henry R. | Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
| USA | Kravis, Marie-Josee | Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Inc. |
| USA | Leschly, Jan | CEO, SmithKline Beecham plc. |
| F | Levy-Lang, Andre | Chairman of the Board of Management, Paribas |
| FIN | Lipponen, Paavo | Prime Minister |
| DK | Lykketoft, Mogens | Minister of Finance |
| CDN | MacMillan, Margaret | Editor, International Journal, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, University of Toronto |
| CDN | Manning, Preston | Leader of the Reform Party |
| I | Masera, Rainer S. | Director General, I.M.I. S.p.A. |
| USA | Matthews, Jessica Tuchman | President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| USA | McDonough, William J. | President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| D | Nass, Matthias | Deputy Editor, Zie Deit |
| NL | Netherlands, Her Majesty Queen of the | |
| PL | Olechowski, Andrzej | Chairman, Central Europe Trust, Poland |
| FIN | Ollila, Jorma | President and CEO, Nokia Corporation |
| I | Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso | Chairman, CONSOB |
| GR | Papandreou, George A. | Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| INT | Prendergast, Kieran | Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, United Nations |
| USA | Prestowitz, Clyde V. | President, Economic Strategy Institute |
| A | Puhringer, Othmar | Chairman of Managing Board, VA-Technologie AG |
| GB | Purves, William | Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. |
| CH | Pury, David de | Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turrettini and Co. Ltd. |
| A | Randa, Gerhard | Chairman of the Managing Board, Bank of Austria |
| USA | Rhodes, William R. | Vice Chairman, CitiBank, N.A. |
| GB | Robertson, George | Secretary of State for Defence |
| USA | Rockefeller, David | Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee |
| E | Rodriguez Inciarte, Matias | Vice-Chairman, Banco de Santander |
| GB | Roll, Eric | Senior Advisor, SBC Warburg Dillon Read |
| GB | Rothschild, Evelyn de | Chairman, N.M. Rothschild and Sons |
| D | Schrempp, Jurgen E. | Chairman of the Board of Management, Daimler Benz A.G. |
| DK | Seidenfaden, Toger | Editor in Chief, Politiken A/S |
| I | Siniscalco, Domenico | Professor of Economics; Director of Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei |
| INT | Solana Madariaga, Javier | Secretary General, NATO |
| P | Sousa, Marcelo Rebelo de | Leader of the PSD Party |
| N | Storvik, Kjell | Governor, Bank of Norway |
| PL | Suchoka, Hanna | Minister of Justice |
| USA | Summers, Lawrence H. | Deputy Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| IRL | Sutherland, Peter D. | Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman, British Petroleum Company plc. |
| GB | Taylor, J. Martin | Group Chief Executive, Barclays plc. |
| USA | Thoman, G. Richard | President and CEO, Xerox Corporation |
| N | Udgaard, Nils M. | Foreign Editor, Aftenposten |
| CH | Vasella, Daniel | CEO Novartis |
| USA | Vink, Lodewijk J.R. de | President and CEO, Warner Lambert Company |
| FIN | Virkkunen, Janne | Senior Editor in Chief, Helsingin Sanomat |
| B | Vits, Mia de | General Secretary, ABVV-FGTB |
| A | Vranitzky, Franz | Former Federal Chancellor |
| INT | Vries, Gijs M. de | Leader of the Liberal Group, European Parliament |
| S | Wallenberg, Jacob | Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken |
| USA | Whitman, Christine Todd | Governor of New Jersey |
| D | Wissmann, Matthias | Federal Minister for Transport |
| 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 |
| USA | Yost, Casimir A. | Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington |
| RAPPORTEURS: | ||
| GB | Micklethwait, John | Business Editor, The Economist |
| GB | Wooldridge, Adrian | Foreign Correspondent, The Economist |
Agenda
May 14-18, 1998, Turnberry, Scotland
The Atlantic Relationship in a time of change
NATO
Asian Crisis
European Monetary Union
Growing Military Disparity
Japan
Multilateral Organizations
Europe’s Social Model
EU/ US Market Place