List of Bilderberg attendees
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List of Bilderberg attendees is a list of prominent persons who have attended one or more conferences organized by the Bilderberg Group. The list is currently organized by category. It is not a complete list and it includes both alive and deceased people. Where known, the year(s) they attended are signified in brackets.
The Bilderberg Group or Bilderberg conference is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are persons of influence in the fields of business, media, and politics.
The elite group meets annually at luxury hotels or resorts throughout the world, normally in Europe, once every four years in the United States or Canada. It has an office in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands.[1] They met at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey for the June 2007 meeting.[2]
Royalty
- Prince Philip (1965, 1966, 1967), Duke of Edinburgh
- Prince Charles (1986), Prince of Wales
- Prince Bernhard, father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands[3]
- Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange (2001)
- Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
- Queen Sofia of Spain, wife of Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
- Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, younger daughter of Juan Carlos I, King of Spain
- Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, Crown Prince of Belgium
- Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, King of Sweden
- Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1985)
- Prince Axel of Denmark
Politics
United States
- Bill Clinton (1991)[4], former US President, 1993 - 2001
- Hillary Clinton (1997), current US Senator, Democratic Presidential Candidate 2008
- Gerald R. Ford (1964, 1966), former US President
- Dan Quayle (1990, 1991), former US Vice President
- Walter F. Mondale, former US Vice President
- Nelson A. Rockefeller, former US Vice President, former Governor of New York
- Dean Acheson, former United States Secretary of State
- Christian Herter (1961, 1963, 1964)[5], former Secretary of State
- Dean Rusk, former United States Secretary of State
- Cyrus Vance, former United States Secretary of State
- Henry Kissinger (1957, 1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1977-2003, 2004[6], 2005, 2006, 2007), Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977
- Richard Perle (1985, 2003), assistant Secretary of Defense, 1981 - 1987
- Donald Rumsfeld (1975, 2002), Secretary of Defense, 2001 - 2006
- David L. Aaron, Deputy National Security Advisor
- Colin L. Powell (1997), former United States Secretary of State
- William J. Perry (1996), former United States Secretary of Defense
- Lloyd Bentsen (1989, 1995, 1996, 1997), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Robert S. McNamara, former US Secretary of Defense, former President of the World Bank
- McGeorge Bundy, former National Security Advisor (United States)
- Walt Whitman Rostow, former National Security Advisor (United States)
- James Steinberg, former Deputy National Security Advisor
- Brent Scowcroft (1985, 1994), former National Security Advisor (United States)
- Sandy Berger, former National Security Advisor (United States)
- Nicholas F. Brady (1991), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Robert Zoellick (1991, 2003, 2006), former Deputy Secretary of State and current President of the World Bank
- Richard Holbrooke (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Lawrence Summers (1998, 2002), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
- C. Douglas Dillon, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Kenneth W. Dam, former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
- Stuart Eizenstat, former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
- Robert M. Kimmitt, current United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
- Richard N. Haass (2004)[6], president, Council on Foreign Relations
- John Edwards (2004), former US Senator
- Bill Bradley (1985), former US Senator
- Jay Rockefeller (1971), current US Senator
- L. Douglas Wilder (1991), former Governor of Virginia, current Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
- Bill Richardson (1999, 2000), current Governor of New Mexico
- Christopher Dodd (1999, 2000, 2001), current US Senator
- Chuck Hagel (1999, 2000, 2001), current US Senator
- Evan Bayh (1999), current US Senator
- Kay Bailey Hutchison (2000, 2002), current US Senator
- Dianne Feinstein (1991), current US Senator
- Jon Corzine (1995, 1996, 1997[3], 1999, 2003, 2004), current Governor of New Jersey
- James Florio (1994), former Governor of New Jersey
- Christine Todd Whitman (1998), former Governor of New Jersey
- Sam Nunn (1996, 1997[3]), former US Senator
- Tom Foley (1995, 2002), former Speaker of the US House of Representatives
- Lee H. Hamilton (1997)[3], former US Congressman
- Ross Wilson (ambassador) (2007), current United States Ambassador to Turkey
- Alexander Haig, former United States Secretary of State
- Winston Lord, former United States Ambassador to China
- George J. Mitchell, former US Senator
- Claiborne Pell, former US Senator
- Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US Senator
- Daniel J. Evans, former US Senator, former Governor of Washington
- Larry Pressler, former US Senator
- Donald W. Riegle, Jr., former US Senator
- Charles Mathias, Jr., former US Senator
- Adlai Stevenson III, former US Senator
- Edward Brooke, former US Senator
- Fred R. Harris, former US Senator
- Bennett Johnston Jr., former US Senator
- Donald M. Fraser, former US Congressman
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher, former US Congressman
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr., former US Congressman
- James Robert Jones, former US Congressman
- John B. Anderson, former US Congressman
- Dan Glickman, former US Congressman
- John LaFalce, former US Congressman
- John H. Sununu (1990), former Governor of New Hampshire
- Terry McAuliffe, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
- Ken Mehlman, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Robert Schwarz Strauss, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
- Shirley Temple (1982), former United States Ambassador, former child actress
- Donald Gregg (1985), former United States Ambassador
- Ralph E. Reed, Jr., former first executive director of the Christian Coalition
- Rick Perry (2007), current Governor of Texas
- Philip D. Zelikow (2007), executive director of the 9/11 Commission and Counselor of the United States Department of State
- Kathleen Sebelius (2007), current Governor of Kansas
- Vin Weber (2007), former US Congressman
- Kristen Silverberg (2007), Bureau of International Organization Affairs, part of the State Department
- Marc Grossman (2007), former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- William J. Luti, Senior Director for Defense Policy and Strategy for the National Security Council
- David Gergen (1995), political consultant and presidential adviser during the Republican administrations of Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, campaign staffer for George H.W. Bush and adviser to Democratic President Bill Clinton
- George W. Ball (1954-1992)[7], U.S. diplomat
- Joseph E. Johnson (1954)[8], President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- David Rockefeller, original U.S. founding member, life member, and member of the Steering Committee (1954-
- Zbigniew Brzezinski (Guest, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1985), President Carter’s National Security Advisor