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BILDERBERG MEETINGS
Hotel Caesar Park Penha Longa
Sintra, Portugal
June 3-6, 1999
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Honorary Chairman
B Davignon, Etienne Chairman, Societe Generale de Belgique
Honorary Secretary General
NL Halberstadt, Victor Professor of Economics, Leiden University
| I | Agnelli, Umberto | Chairman, IFIL Fianziaria di Partecipazioni S.p.A. |
| E | Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Esperanza | President of the Spanish Senate |
| USA | Allaire, Paul A. | Chairman, Xerox Corporation |
| P | Amaral, Joaquim F. do | Member of Parliament |
| S | Aslund, Anders | Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| P | Balsemao, Francisco Pinto | Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister |
| S | Barnevik, Percy | Chairman, Investor AB |
| USA | Bayh, Evan | Senator (Democrat, Indiana) |
| I | Bernabe, Franco | Managing Director and CEO, Telecom Italia |
| S | Bildt, Carl | Member of Parliament |
| CDN | Black, Conrad M. | Chairman, Telegraph Group Limited |
| USA | Boyd, Charles G. | Executive Director, National Security Study Group |
| CDN | Chastelain, John A.D. de | Chairman, Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. |
| GB | Clarke, Kenneth | Member of Parliament |
| N | Clemet, Kristin | Deputy Director General, Confederation of Business and Industry. |
| F | Collomb, Bertrand | Chairman and CEO, Lafarge |
| USA | Corzine, Jon S. | Retired Senior Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co. |
| P | Cravinho, João Cardona G. | Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Territorial Administration |
| GR | David, George A. | Chairman of the Board, Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. |
| USA | Dodd, Chistopher J. | Senator (Democrat, Connecticut) |
| USA | Donilon, Thomas E. | Attorney-at-Law, OMelveny & Myers |
| TR | Ercel, Gazi | Governor, Central Bank of Turkey |
| TR | Ergin, Sedat | Ankara Bureau Chief, Hürriyet |
| USA | Feldstein, Martin S. | President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research |
| INT | Fischer, Stanley | First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund |
| I | Fresco, Paolo | Chairman, Fiat S.p.A. |
| I | Giavazzi, Francesco | Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan |
| CDN | Godsoe, Peter C. | Chairman and CEO, Bank of Nova Scotia |
| USA | Graham, Donald E. | Publisher, The Washington Post |
| NL | Grave, Frank H.G. de | Minister of Defence |
| P | Grilo, Eduardo C. Marcal | Minister of Education |
| USA | Hagel, Chuck | Senator (Republican, Nebraska) |
| S | Hedelius, Tom C. | Chairman, Svenska Handelsbanken |
| N | Hegge, Per Egil | Editor, Aftenposten |
| CDN | Herrndorf, Peter A. | Former Chairman and CEO, TV Ontario; Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Toronto |
| USA | Hoagland, Jim | Associate Editor, The Washington Post |
| N | Höegh, Westye | |
| USA | Holbrooke, Richard C. | Ambassador to the UN designate |
| B | Huyghebaert, Jan | Chairman, Almanij N.V. |
| INT | Issing, Otmar | Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank. |
| USA | Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. | Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (Attorneys-at-Law) |
| BG | Kamov, Nikolai | Member of Parliament |
| TR | Kirac, Suna | Vice-Chairman of the Board, Koç Holding A.S. |
| USA | Kissinger, Henry A. | Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. |
| D | Kopper, Hilmar | Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank A.G. |
| GR | Kranidiotis, Yannos | Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| USA | Kravis, Marie-Josée | Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc. |
| USA | Leschly, Jan | CEO, Smith Kline Beecham p.l.c. |
| INT | Liikanen, Erkki | Member of the European Commission |
| CDN | MacLaren, Roy | High Commissioner for Canada in Britain |
| CDN | MacMillan, Margaret O. | Editor, International Journal |
| GB | Mandelson, Peter | Member of Parliament |
| USA | Mathews Jessica T. | President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| USA | McDonough, William J. | President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| USA | McGinn, Richard A. | Chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies |
| P | Mello, Vasco de | Vice Chairman and CEO, Grupo José de Mello |
| UKR | Mityukov, Ihor | Minister of Finance |
| F | Moïsi, Dominique | Deputy Director, IFRI |
| INT | Monti, Mario | Member of the European Commission |
| P | Nabo, Francisco Murteira | President and CEO, Portugal Telecom |
| D | Nass, Mathias | Deputy Editor, Die Zeit |
| NL | Netherlands, Her Majesty the Queen of the | |
| ICE | Oddsson, David | Prime Minister |
| PL | Olechowski, Andrzej | Chairman Central Europe Trust |
| FIN | Ollila, Jorma | Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nokia Corporation |
| INT | Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso | Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank |
| D | Perger, Werner A. | Political Correspondent, Die Zeit |
| GB | Porrit, Jonathon | Programme Director, Forum for the Future |
| I | Profumo, Alessandro | CEO, Credito Italiano |
| CH | Pury, David de | Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turretini & Co. Ltd. |
| A | Randa, Gerhard | CEO and Chairman, Bank Austria AG |
| USA | Rattner, Steven | Deputy Executive, Lazard Freres & Co., LLC |
| USA | Richardson, Bill | Secretary of Energy |
| USA | Rockefeller, David | Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee |
| E | Rodriguez Inciarte, Matias | Executive Vice Chairman, BSCH |
| S | Rojas, Mauricio | Associate Professor of Economic History, Lund University; Director of Timbro’s Centre for Welfare Reform |
| GB | Roll, Eric | Senior Adviser, Warburg Dillon Read |
| S | Rosengren, Björn | Minister for Industry, Employment and Communication |
| P | Salgado, Ricardo E.S. | President and CEO, Grupo Espírito Santo |
| P | Sampaio, Jorge | President of Portugal |
| P | Santos, Nicolau | Editor-in-Chief, Expresso |
| NL | Scheepbouwer, Ad J. | Chairman and CEO, TNT Post Group |
| A | Schenz, Richard | CEO and Chairman of the Board, OMV AG |
| A | Scholten, Rudolf | Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG |
| D | Schrempp, Jurgen E. | Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler AG. |
| DK | Seidenfaden, Toger | Editor-in-Chief, Politiken |
| USA | Shapiro, Robert B. | Chairman and CEO, Monsanto Company |
| RUS | Shevtsova, Lilia | Carnegie Moscow Center |
| P | Silva, Artur Santos | President and CEO, BPI Group |
| E | Solbes Mira, Pedro | Member of Parliament, Socialist Party |
| H | Suranyi, Gyorgy | President, National Bank of Hungary |
| GB | Taylor, J. Martin | Former Chief Executive, Barclays PLC |
| USA | Thoman, G. Richard | President and CEO, Xerox Corporation |
| USA | Thornton, John L. | President and Co-COO, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. |
| RUS | Trenin, Dmitri V. | Deputy Director, Carnegie Moscow Center |
| F | Trichet, Jean-Claude | Governor, Banque de France |
| USA | Tyson, Laura DAndrea | Dean, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley |
| FIN | Vanhala, Matti | Chairman of the Board, Bank of Finland |
| FIN | Vartia, Pentti | Managing Director, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) |
| CH | Vasella, Daniel L. | Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG |
| GR | Veremis, Thanos M. | Professor of Political History, University of Athens; President of Eliamep |
| A | Vranitzky, Franz | Former Federal Chancellor |
| NL | Waal, Lodewjk J. de | Chairman, Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (FNV) |
| GB | Wolf, Martin | Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, The Financial Times. |
| INT/USA | Wolfensohn, James D. | President, The World Bank |
| D | Wolff von Amerongen, Otto | Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH |
| TR | Yücaoglu, Erkut | Chairman, Tusiad |
| CZ | Zantovsky, Michael | Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Secutiry, Czech Senate |
| A | Zimmermann, Norbert | Chairman, Berndorf AG |
| Rapporteurs | ||
| GB | Micklethwait, John | New York Bureau Chief, The Economist |
| GB | Wooldridge, Adrian | Foreign Correspondent, The Economist |
| In Attendance | ||
| NL | Banck, Maja | Executive Secretary, Bilderberg Meetings |
| P | Estarreja, Joao A. | Local Organiser 1999 Conference |
| USA | Farren, Michael J. | Adviser, American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc. |
| A | Kastner, Diemut | Local Organiser 2000 Conference |
Agenda
June 3-6, 1999 – Sintra, Portugal
I. Kosovo
II. The US Political Scene
III. Current Controversies: Genetics and the Life Sciences
IV. Redesigning the International Financial Architecture
V. The Social and Political Impacts on Emerging Markets of Recent Economic Events
VI. NATO’s Future
VII. The Relationship between Information Technology and Economic Policy
VIII. Current Events
IX. Russia’s Foreign Policy
X. How Durable is the Current Rosy Complexion of European Politics?