The 72nd Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 9 – 12 April 2026 in Washington, D.C., USA. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and media has been invited.
In alphabetical order, the topics for discussion this year are:
AI (AI will be a feature of the control grid. AI and robots will be willing to kill humans.)
Arctic Security (Their only play is Greenland. Russia and China will say No.)
China (China is toast economically speaking. See Edward Dowd and also Lei’s Real Talk YouTube channel.)
Digital Finance (Bilderberg represents the Bankers who want a Great Reset. This is a future where a combination of greed, corruption and Hyperinflation takes everything we had and transfers all of our wealth to Billionaire Bankers. The NWO will replace One Man One Vote with One Bank One Vote.)
Energy Diversification (We have had advances in nuclear energy which will be useful to people living underground.)
Europe (Lots of Bilderbergers live in Europe and look down on the US. But their liberalism has destroyed the Europe that we used to love. I expect Civil War in the US and Europe.)
Global Trade (The Straits of Hormuz were open until Bibi Netanyahu, America’s worst ever President, decided to kill the man who refused to let Iran develop atomic bombs. Bibi made Global nuclear war a very real possibility given Israel’s Samsom option which is to initiate WW III if the world does not let them continue in their Genocidal ways.)
The Middle East (They screwed up the Mideast. Remember General Clark and 7 nations in 5 years. Iran is nation number 7.)
Russia (The Russians under Putin make far superior missiles to the US. In fact, Yemen fired off a Mach 15 missile the other day. This is due to excessive corruption in the US Pentagon.)
Trans-Atlantic Defence-Industrial Relationship (This is doomed to failure. Catherine Austin Fitts said our Elite has stolen $50 trillion from the taxpayers.)
Ukraine (This is another Neocon failed project. The Ukrainians have lost at least 1.7 million soldiers. This war needs to end.)
USA (I am sure Bilderberg wants to replace Trump with Vance. No current Democrat candidate is capable of winning an election. Look at the Crazies the CIA was funding as revealed by DOGE audits, transgender operas in Latin America amongst others. At one point 38 people had been killed by transgenders under hormone therapy in shooting rampages across the US.)
Future of Warfare (The Bilderbergers have already declared war on us as they know we will be very angry when they steal all of our savings, properties, pensions and investments while cutting wages permanently by at least 60% in the US, maybe less in some countries, maybe more in others. They have already sickened a few billion people with processed food poisons, vaccines and Covid clot shots.)
The West (I expect a few billion people to die from SSIV which is Suicide and Starvation Induced Violence. The Bilderberg Plan is to live deep underground and emerge victorious after we have killed each other. Not much of a plan apart from the Covid clot shots and the poisons in our food and vaccines. The only problem is that the Iranians will survive underground with huge missile arsenals and very likely atomic bombs.)
Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting is an annual conference designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. Every year, between 120-140 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and media are invited to take part in the Meeting. About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America: approximately a quarter from politics and government, and the rest from other fields.
The Bilderberg Meeting is a forum for informal discussions about major issues. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule. This states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed.
Thanks to the private nature of the Meeting, the participants take part as individuals rather than in any official capacity and hence are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.
2026 Participants
Abrams, Stacey (USA), CEO, Sage Works Production. Member of the Steering Committee. She is a black lesbian who ran for and lost the race for Governor of Georgia. She is needed because they think she can help to control the Black, radical opposition. Well-funded by NGOs.
Alverà, Marco (ITA), Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO, TES. Member of the Steering Committee. Alverà studied at the London School of Economics, where he earned a degree in Philosophy and Economics in 1997. Alverà began his career at Goldman Sachs in London. He launched the first injection of a hydrogen and natural gas into the pipeline, the Europe’s first commercial test of a hydrogen-methane blend in a high-pressure network.
Applebaum, Anne (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic. Returning Participant. Author of an anti-Trump book. She is cheerleading a revolt against Trump. Her husband is Bilderberger and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski. She is Jewish. She claims to be an expert on Communism in Russia and eastern Europe.
Auchincloss, Murray (GBR), Former CEO, BP plc. Makes $10 million a year. qualified as a chartered financial analyst in the United States. Graduated from Calgary U with a degree in economics. Not an engineer. Was CFO but took over due to sex scandal involving the former CEO. Returning participant.
Barroso, José Manuel (PRT), Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International. Member of the Steering Committee. Former President, European Commission. He used to be a frequent object of Nigel Farage’s wrath at the EU parliament. Farage used to name Barroso as one of a long list of EU commissioners who were either former Maoists and Communists or were convicted felons or under indictment for felonies. He was a member of the underground Maoist MRPP. I am as concerned about his relationship with Goldman Sachs as I am about his college days in a Maoist action group.
Bartosiewicz, Adam (POL), Vice President, WB Group. Graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics (1984) and Faculty of Electrical Engineering (1986). Founder of MOTGOS and WG Electronics. Outstanding engineer, his inventions have revolutionised the functioning of the Polish army. He has participated in numerous projects relating to the modernisation of the army, including the creation of complex communications and control and command systems. Bilderberg has selected several men this year who are experts in modernizing warfare. They are very interested in war.
Baudson, Valérie (FRA), CEO, Amundi SA. Member of the Steering Committee. Another Banker. Valérie Baudson is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole S.A. in charge of the asset management division and a member of the Executive Committee of Crédit Agricole SA since May 2021. In this capacity, she is Chief Executive Officer of Amundi, Europe’s biggest asset manager.
Berg, Caroline (SWE), CEO, Axel Johnson. They a family owned Swedish industrial company. She has been a Board Member since 2014 (Board Chair between 2015 and January 2025). Caroline is also Board Member of Axfood and Axel Johnson International. Caroline is Board Chair of the Axjoma Foundation, Axel and Margaret Axson Johnson Foundation, the Erik and Göran Ennerfelt Foundation and Stiftelsen Järvaveckan. Between 2006 and 2014, Caroline was Director of Human Development and Communications at Axel Johnson.
Birol, Fatih (INT), Executive Director, International Energy Agency. He is a Turkish economist and energy expert, who has served as the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) since 1 September 2015. During his time in charge of the IEA, he has taken a series of steps to modernise the Paris-based international organisation, including strengthening ties with emerging economies like India and China and stepping up work on the clean energy transition and international efforts to reach net zero emissions, an article of faith with the Davos set. Returning participant.
Boël, Harold (BEL), CEO, Sofina. That is a family trust fund. His father is a close friend of King Albert II. In 1992 he married Clotilde de Peñaranda de Franchimont (1968), first lady of honour to Queen Mathilde.
Bosek, Peter (AUT), CEO and Chief Retail Officer, Erste Group Bank AG. Boring stuff. Career banker. Bilderbergers are bankers.
Botín, Ana (ESP), Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA. Former Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA. Member of Steering Committee. Formerly head of Santander UK. This is an old drug money laundering bank with ties to Latin America and the Rothschilds. Her mother is of Irish descent (O’Shea). She worked for J P Morgan for 8 years.
Bourla, Albert (USA), Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc. Bourla was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. His parents were Sephardic Jews. Covid was made in a lab in the West. It was enhanced (made more contagious) using NIH funds sent by Dr Anthony Fauci to that Chinese military lab at Wuhan. The Covid vaxxes are Bioweapons.
Budliger, Helene (CHE), State Secretary for Economic Affairs since August 1, 2022. She is a professional diplomat. Good at trade relations which is important to Bilderberg.
Burgum, Douglas (USA), Secretary of the Interior. Doug founded Great Plains, a software company. He had a successful IPO and grew the company to over 2,000 employees before its acquisition by Microsoft. Burgum remained with Microsoft for six years as the Senior Vice President of Business Solutions
Busch, Roland (DEU), President and CEO, Siemens AG. He was CTO. He is an expert on digitalization which is important to Bilderberg 2026.
Calviño, Nadia (INT), President, European Investment Bank since January 2024. From June 2018 to December 2023, Calviño was part of the cabinets led by prime minister Pedro Sánchez, holding the office of Minister of Economy. She leads efforts to digitalize money. Retuning participant.
Cantell, Aaro (FIN), Chair, Normet Group. Tech background. He is an expert at mining. Bilderberg invites experts at certain fields of interest which in his case would be digging up valuable minerals.
Castries, Henri de (FRA), President, Institut Montaigne. Head of Bilderberg Europe. Member of Steering Committee. The Institut Montaigne is a French think tank funded by Bankers A former AXA chairman. He founded it in 2000. It is an AXA operation. They favor social cohesion (meaning they don’t want the rabble to revolt.) They have studied in depth race riots in the Paris suburbs but have since brought in millions of unvetted refugees. Either not very bright or is working to destroy Europe.
Cavendish, Camilla (GBR), Member House of Lords. Attractive woman. From 2002 until 2012, Cavendish worked at The Times, where she was associate editor, columnist and, in 2010, chief leader writer. She then worked at The Sunday Times from 2012 to May 2015. She has worked as a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker and as an aide to the CEO of Pearson plc. She helped to found the lobby group, London First, and was the first CEO of the not-for-profit trust, South Bank Employers’ Group, which masterminded the regeneration of the South Bank of the Thames in London in the late 1990s. New member.
Chambers, Jack (IRL), Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation. He is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He previously served as Minister for Finance from 2024 to 2025, a Minister of State attending cabinet from July 2020 to June 2024 and served as Government Chief Whip from July 2020 to December 2022. He has been Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil since 2024. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency since the 2016 general election. He is openly Gay. Returning participant.
Christiansen, Jeppe (DNK), CEO, Maj Invest group. He is important to businesses in Denmark. Bilderberg invites people to help sell their brand amongst their networks back home.
Clark, Jack (USA), Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic PBC. Co-Founder & Head of Policy, Anthropic PBC. Jack Clark is a prominent figure in the AI industry, serving as the co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic. He co-founded the company in 2021 with six ex-OpenAI researchers and has since been instrumental in building large-scale artificial intelligence systems. Clark’s work has garnered significant attention, with his newsletter, Import AI, boasting over 69,000 subscribers. His expertise in AI policy and governance has been recognized by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in AI in 2023. Returning participant.
Colao, Vittorio (ITA), Vice Chair EMEA, General Atlantic Service Company LP. He served as Minister of Technological Innovation and the Digital Transition for the Italian government from 2021-2022, a role in which he led the growth of inclusive and efficient digital services across Italy and oversaw the country’s space program. Bilderberg is pushing digitalization.
Collison, Patrick (IRL), CEO, Stripe. In 2010, Collison co-founded Stripe, which in 2011 received investment of $2 million including from PayPal co-founders Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. His company does online payments. He is a self-made billionaire.
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE. Member of the Steering Committee. Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE. His wife has a Jewish maiden name. Her father was in senior management at Deutsche Bank which is Jewish run. Returning Participant. Elevated to the Steering Committee in 2019.
Driscoll, Daniel P. (USA), Secretary of the Army. He was a Yale law school classmate and friend of JD Vance. He is the 3rd generation to serve in the US Army. A former US official stated that Driscoll, a close ally of Vice President Vance, has been frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Hegseth if he were to be dismissed. Good idea to replace Hegseth.
Economy, Elizabeth (USA), Hargrove Senior Fellow, Stanford University. Long time CFR employee. Economy is an acclaimed author and expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent book is The World According to China (Polity, 2022). She is also the author of The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State. Bilderberg wanted a China expert.
Ek, Daniel (SWE), Chair, Spotify SA. He founded Spotify after Napster collapsed. Bilderberg is going deep into tech.
Eriksen, Øyvind (NOR), President and CEO, Aker ASA. Aker ASA is a Norwegian industrial investment company with ownership interests concentrated in oil and gas, renewable energy and green technologies, industrial software, seafood and marine biotech. He is another tech expert with a strong local network to sell the Bilderberg brand.
Escrivá, José Luis (ESP), Governor, Bank of Spain. Member of the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision of the Bank for International Settlements. BIS is very important to bankers which is the Central Bank of Central Banks.
Ferguson, Niall (USA), Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Stanford University. He was born in Glasgow and graduated from Oxford. He is an official biographer of Henry Kissinger and has written about the Rothschild family. He represents the latter at Bilderberg. He is an economic historian and one of his areas of expertise is Hyperinflation. He has said the euro is doomed and can only be saved by more centralization (and less democracy). He is the man who made wildly exaggerated claims about the spread of covid which was used to justify lockdowns. Returning member.
Foroohar, Rana (USA), Associate Editor, Financial Times. Rana Foroohar is global business columnist and associate editor at the Financial Times, based in New York. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst. Her first book, “Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business,” was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016. Her second book, “Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All of Us,” released in 2019. Also, on CNN.
Freeland, Chrystia (CAN), Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. Freeland is the granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi, and she also has a long and intimate relationship with the New World Order, World Economic Forum, as they were her previous employers. She represents Canadian PM Carney, Mark J. (CAN), Chair, Brookfield Asset Management and former Member of the Steering Committee. Former Governor, Bank of England. Former head of Bank of Canada. The Guardian had an article about his support for Climate Change. BS. There is No Global Warming. He began his career at Goldman Sachs and helped stoke the housing bubble in Canada. The above is his 2024 entry.
Fürstenberg, Jeanette zu (DEU), Managing Director, General Catalyst. She is a VC who helps develop tech start-ups.
Georgieva, Kristalina (INT), Managing Director, IMF. Veteran academic and then worked at World Bank. The IMF is crucial to Bankers. Also worked at European Commission, a strong point with European members.
Gil, Pilar (ESP), CEO, PRISA Media. Bilderberg cultivates media members.
Greer, Jamieson (USA), United States Trade Representative Bilderberg will try to cultivate him. His boss Trump will be addressing the delegates.
Guttenberg, Karl-Theodor zu (DEU), Chair, Spitzberg Partners LLC. His company is in New York and advises Americans on European investments. He is Germany’s youngest defense minister ever and modernized the German Army. He is the second man here involved in modernizing armies. Does Bilderberg see war in our future?
Harrington, Kevin (USA), Former Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council. Was Managing Director, Thiel Capital LLC His boss is Peter Thiel, a Member of the Steering Committee. Both are Trump supporters. Was First time participant in 2024. Returning participant.
Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind, a machine learning AI startup, founded in London in 2010. Following work at Lionshead and Elixir Studios, Hassabis returned to academia to obtain his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London (UCL) He sought to find inspiration in the human brain for new AI algorithms. He is half Greek Cypriot and Chinese. He grew up in North London and was a child prodigy, educated at home. Returning participant. They are serious about AI.
Heraty, Anne (IRL), Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald and IBEC. New Member of the Steering Committee. She started as a recruiter of IT workers. Sold her startup for 300 million euros and now a very large runs a major Irish property firm.
Hobson, Mellody (USA), Co-Ceo and President, Ariel Investments LLC. (Not attending this year for unknown reasons.) Member of the Steering Committee. Former Chair of the Board of Directors of DreamWorks Animation. She is Black. Ariel is a Chicago investment firm that manages over $10 billion in assets. She married George Lucas and had a child delivered by a surrogate birth mother.
Hoffmann, André (CHE), Vice Chair, Roche Holding Ltd. Member of the Steering Committee. Not on list of attendees. The great-grandson of Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche who founded the drug company Roche Holding in 1896. He is a member of the Club of Rome, a member of the board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, a member the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco, and a member of the board of SystemIQ, a company that intends to “drive positive disruption in economic systems.”
Horstmann, Uwe (DEU), CEO, Stark which is one of Europe’s fastest growing defence technology companies. They have deployed a new loitering drone in the Ukraine. Modernizing warfare is a 2026 theme for them.
Hunt, Colin (IRL), CEO, AIB Group plc. Another Banker but with thousands of connections worldwide.
Jakobs, Roy (NLD), President and CEO, Royal Philips. He runs a modern healthcare device company which suffered under a product recall and has problems with Chinese authorities. Phillips is Jewish family that rivals the Rothschild family in total wealth.
Jetten, Rob (NLD), Prime Minister. He is a progressive who actually believes in that climate change nonsense.
Jonson, Pål (SWE), Minister for Defence. He has a Ph.D. i n war studies. He has worked to run Sweden’s Defense Industry association and served in the parliament on the defense committee. He has been modernizing the Swedish military. Bilderberg is serious about war. He supports the fiasco in Ukraine.
Kaag, Sigrid (NLD), Co-Chair Board of Directors, United Nations Foundation. She is a Dutch diplomat and politician. She works with the likes of Ted Turner and the Queen of Jordan to bring about multilateralism.
Kagan, Kimberly (USA), President, Institute for the Study of War. Remember the Project for the New American Century from the Bush admin? They are the Neocons who brought us 7 countries in 5 years which was to culminate in somehow winning a war against Iran. They also gave us the Ukraine war. She runs a Think Tank that is full of it with regard to Iran. She is the worst possible advisor for a Mideast war. Her primary concern is Israel.
Kamyshin, Oleksandr (UKR), Advisor to the President of Ukraine for Strategic Affairs. He is a former auditor KPMG. He has worked to modernize and privatize Ukraine’s defense industries. He seems to be far less corrupt than the rest of the Ukrainian government which is selling NATO weapons to Drug Cartels and terrorists. Bilderberg is interested in his ability to make weapons and to make a profit doing business in the Ukraine.
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc. Member of the Steering Committee. Bilderberg wants to make Palantir Digital Spy system a part of our future. This high-tech data mining company was created with seed money from the CIA, so I do not believe those claims about protecting user privacy. It is in data mining but has advantages over its competitors because of its government access. It is partnering with Project Maven AI. AI requires massive human data to work.
Kirtley, David (USA), CEO, and founder of Helion Energy. It is an American fusion research company located in Everett, Washington. It is developing a magneto-inertial fusion technology to produce fusion power by combining deuterium with helium-3 via aneutronic fusion. Bilderberg will need new energy sources to survive WW III which from their perspective is the culling of the masses.
Koç, Ali (TUR), Vice Chair, Koç Holding. His company is the largest in Turkey and partners with many foreign corporations making light bulbs and cars. He is a member of the New York Yacht Club. He hired Peter Sutherland a former Head of Bilderberg Europe. He is a former Member of the Steering Committee. Turkey is undergoing severe economic problems. Turkey is aligning with Russia, China and BRICS nations. Putin wants to make Turkey an energy Hub. Turkey is resisting Israeli expansion.
Kostrzewa, Wojciech (POL), President, Polish Business Roundtable. New Member of the Steering Committee. He is a crypto enthusiast who is the founder and CEO of Billon Group, a fintech company that specializes in blockchain-based payment solutions. He has been involved in the development of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies since the early days of Bitcoin and has become a leading figure in the Polish crypto community. Kostrzewa holds a degree in electronics engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology and has extensive experience in banking and finance. He has worked for major financial institutions such as Citibank and the Polish National Bank and has also served as an advisor to the Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs on matters related to blockchain and fintech. As the founder of Billon, Kostrzewa has been instrumental in developing the company’s blockchain-based payment platform, which enables fast, secure and low-cost digital transactions. The platform uses a proprietary technology called DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) that allows it to process high-volume transactions in real-time, without the need for intermediaries.
Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has written lots of books on Stalin and the Soviet collapse. He is a well known Russia expert which does not mean that he is right. Returning participant.
Kratsios, Michael (USA), Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Bad CV. He studied at Princeton University and graduated with a B.A. in politics and a certificate in Hellenic studies in 2008. While in college, Kratsios was an intern for U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and editor-in-chief and president of Business Today.[5][13][14] Following his time at Princeton, he worked for Barclays Capital and Lyford Group International and later served as the chief financial officer of Clarium Capital Management. Prior to joining the Trump administration as deputy assistant to the president, Kratsios was a principal at Thiel Capital and served as chief of staff to entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. degree in politics. Interned for the warmonger Linday Graham. He worked as a Banker and for Peter Thiel, a Member Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Society. He was hired to give the answers Peter Thiel wants. Returning participant.
Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. When they bought R J Reynolds, Catherine Austin Fitts couldn’t understand how KKR could pay so much. She later learned that Reynolds sold cigarettes to terrorists and drug dealers so they could launder money. KKR takes over companies and steals their pensions. Returning member. His wife was a member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and Co-Chair of Bilderberg.
Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Chair, The Museum of Modern Art. Supposedly a former Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and Co-Chair of Bilderberg. Wife of Henry Kravis.
Kubilius, Andrius (INT), Commissioner Defence and Space, European Commission. Physicist. Former Lithuanian PM. Political conservative and longtime opponent of Russia. He is in charge of the Eu’s defense and space programs which is important work.
Kudelski, André (CHE), Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA. Former Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee for several years. Kudelski SA is a Swiss company that sells digital television access and management systems, content protection solutions, cybersecurity solutions, Internet of Things products and public access infrastructure. He serves on many corporate boards. He wrote this: Together with incredible opportunities come new risks, as the virtual and real world become one in the fourth industrial revolution. Read more here: www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-dark-side-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution
Lammy, David (GBR), Minister and Secretary of State for Justice. He is a former Foreign Minister and tried to give away Diego Garcia, a crucial American base in its war against Iran. Has said there would be fewer juvenile crimes if parents were allowed to hit their children. He is partially of Hindu descent. His wife is of Jewish descent, but they are both practicing Anglicans. The Starmer government is very unpopular. But the UK is very important to Bilderberg.
Laubenthal, Markus (INT), General and Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. Professional German soldier. Served in Afghanistan. Now runs NATO. War is on the Bilderberg 2026 agenda.
Leeuwen, Geoffrey van (INT), Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary General at NATO. A friend of Rutte. Served in Afghanistan trying to train an Afghan police force. Also served as Dutch ambassador to Afghanistan. He is a lawyer and has done advanced work in English and French universities meaning he is a linguist.
Lescure, Roland (FRA), Minister for Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty. Career politician. France is important.
Letta, Enrico (ITA), Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. He was an Italian career politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 2013 to February 2014, leading a grand coalition of centre-left and centre-right parties. He was the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) from March 2021 to March 2023. Returning participant.
Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chair, dsm-firmenich AG. Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee for several years. Former Banker and head of a mining firm. Current firm is not of interest, they do fragrances.
Lighthizer, Robert (USA), Chair, Center for American Trade. Jim Rickards spoke highly of him. He is a lawyer. He was at the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington which is very powerful politically. He is trade representative under Trump.
Liikanen, Erkki (FIN), Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees. Member of the Steering Committee. The IFRS Foundation is a not-for-profit responsible for developing global accounting and sustainability disclosure standards, known as IFRS Standards. He obtained a master’s degree in political science (Economics) from the University of Helsinki in 1975. He is a Finnish social democratic politician and a former Governor of the Bank of Finland. Member of the related Trilateral Commission. First time attendee in 2019. Elevated to the Bilderberg Steering Committee in 2022.
MacGregor, Catherine (FRA), CEO Group, ENGIE is a French multinational electric utility company. Board member of Microsoft. Longtime Schlumberger employee. Energy is important to Bilderberg.
McCoy, Danny (IRL), CEO, Ibec. Ibec is an Irish business representative lobbying organisation and human resources services provider. He has held senior economist posts at the Central Bank of Ireland and the Economic & Social Research Institute. He has been a consultant to the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development. Another Banker but with impressive statistical skills.
McGurk, Brett (USA), Global Affairs Analyst, CNN. He is a professional lawyer and worked in several administrations in National Security. He has worked in Afghanistan with the Kurds and for the Provisional Authority, the Occupiers. And has negotiated hostage releases with the Iranians. I guess he is one of their Mideast experts.
McInnes, Ross (FRA), President, Safran Group. Safran has 100,000 employees. They make airplanes, rockets for space and other defense related products. Made innovators in electric motors. (Needed for quiet drones.) Used to work for ENGIE, the energy company. Has dual French and Australian citizenship.
Meelby Jensen, Britt (DNK), CEO, Ambu A/S. They are a medical devices company. She is restructuring and modernizing the organization. She has worked for several major Big Pharma companies.
Mensch, Arthur (FRA), Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI. In late 2020, Mensch joined DeepMind Paris, where he worked for nearly three years on large language models (LLMs), multimodal systems, and retrieval-augmented architectures. He left in May 2023 to co-found Mistral AI. He is one of the most prominent figures in Europe’s AI ecosystem and is often cited in debates on AI policy, sovereign technology, and open models. AI is a 2026 theme.
Metreweli, Blaise (GBR), Chief, Secret Intelligence Service, MI-6. First female in that position. She is fluent in Arabic and studied Russian at Cambridge where she was on the rowing crew that beat Oxford. She worked for 20 years in the Mideast. Bilderberg needs her Mideast expertise and her knowledge of Russia.
Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP. Member of the Steering Committee. He used to be Editor-in-Chief, The Economist which is owned by the Rothschilds. The Economist urged Iraq to attack Iran 6 months before the war started. Bilderberg loves to control the media.
Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist, a Rothschild publication. Member of the Steering Committee. She was educated at Oxford and Harvard. She previously worked at the IMF.
Moreira, Duarte (PRT), Co-Founder and CEO, Zeno Partners. He is a venture capitalist. His Swiss based company runs 6 investment funds that has billions invested in 100s of companies. Returning participant.
Motzfeldt, Vivian (GRL), Former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Greenland is on Bilderberg’s Arctic agenda as well as Trump’s.
Moura Guedes, Guta (PRT), Chair and Co-Founder, ExperimentaDesign, is an expo for designers and designs. Seems to be very innovative and popular in Europe.
Murati, Mira (USA), CEO, Thinking Machines Lab. She helped develop ChatGPT. She is another AI expert. She wants to make it more available and helpful to individuals.
Nadal, Alberto (ESP), Shadow Economic Minister, Popular Party. Well trained in economics and law. The Socialists who are in power are not very popular though there are very few governments in Europe that are popular.
Nadella, Satya (USA), CEO, Microsoft Corporation. (Not attending this year for unknown reasons.) Member of the Steering Committee It is possible for members to attend secretly.
Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD), Former Member of Steering Committee. His family owns a large part of Royal Dutch Shell along with the UK royal family and the Rothschilds. Forbes magazine did a puff piece and said his family only had 300 million dollars. This is not credible for a family that ruled for 200 years. His wife is prettier than most actresses in Hollywood. Her father was in the Argentinian government during the Dirty War. Europe might need men like him when the EU Rothschild experiment collapses. His mother attended before him.
Netherlands, H.M. the Queen of the (NLD), For some reason she wanted to attend in person. Might be worried a bit about the future of humanity.
Olechowski, Jacek (POL), Founder, Mediacap which a Polish publicly listed marketing group employing 300+ and servicing over 300 clients. He seems to be prominent at the World Economic Forum. Davos is probably why he was invited.
Orszag, Peter R. (USA), CEO and Chair, Lazard. They are a Jewish investment firm with billions under management. Bilderbergers are bankers.
Özyeğin, Murat (TUR), Chair, Fiba Group which has finance, insurance, energy and real estate companies in 11 countries. Member of the Steering Committee. Was an analyst at Bear Stearns in New York. He is a son of one the richest men in Turkey. Turkey is a NATO member and a key partner to any resolution to our Mideast conflicts (which is simply the inability to control Bibi Netanyahu.)
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), Chair, TITAN SA. Treasurer, Foundation Bilderberg Meetings; Chair, TITAN SA. Member of the Steering Committee. Titan cement is a large international company which is expanding into the US and eastern Europe. He also appeared at Davos and likes to talk in public.
Paparo, Samuel (USA), Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command. He oversees a vast array of military activities across 36 nations, 14 time zones, and 60 percent of the world’s population. His leadership is crucial in countering China’s military ascendancy and ensuring the security and prosperity of the region. The US cannot invade Yemen and win. Bilderberg is bonkers if they think they can take on China and win. Returning participant.
Perryman, Skye (USA), President and CEO, Democracy Forward. She is a liberal lawyer written up in the US media. She sues the government to protect fair wages and other rights. Does not seem to realize that unlimited legal and illegal immigration has impoverished everyone and raised their rents, their grocery bills, their utility bills and the prices they pay at a gas pump. Hyperinflation is just one part of the Great Reset which will take everything we have and give it to billionaires.
Pierrakakis, Kyriakos (GRC), Minister of Economy and Finance. He is a computer scientist and an economist. He has also served as President of the Eurogroup (nations that have adopted the euro as their currency) since 12 December 2025. He undertook the creation of a plan for the digital transformation of Greece. Bilderberg 2026 in interested in digitalization.
Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE. Total is the French oil company. He is an engineer who has worked for both government and industry. He attends the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Rachman, Gideon (GBR), Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times. He became the chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times in July 2006. In 2016, he won the Orwell Prize for political journalism. Is it an oxymoron to say a journalist won the Orwell prize? Returning participant.
Rappard, Rolly van (NLD), Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners. Member of the Steering Committee. Worked at Citigroup and ay CVC’s predecessor Citigroup Venture Capital. CVC has 133 billion euros in assets under management. Also active in WEF at Davos. A lot of interaction between the two groups. New participant in 2024.
Roche, Nicolas (FRA), Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defence and National Security. He began his career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2006, before joining the French embassies in the USA and Israel as an advisor. From 2016 to 2019, he was Director of Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament at the Quai d’Orsay. He served as France’s ambassador to Iran from 2022 to 2025. Probably want him, because he talked to Iranians for 3 years. Returning participant.
Rovere, Silvia Maria (ITA), Chair, Poste Italiane S.p.A. Besides providing postal services, Poste Italiane offers communications, postal savings products, logistics, and financial and insurance services throughout Italy. She is a longtime real estate investor claiming to do ethical investing in illiquid assets. Bilderberg might be able to ake money in Italy.
Rutte, Mark (INT), Secretary General, NATO. Former Dutch PM, as such, he was a partner with the WEF at Davos in stealing half the land of Dutch farmers. Davos and Bilderberg want to starve us into submission. Returning participant.
Sawers, John (GBR), Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd. Member of the Steering Committee. He was Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He was a professional diplomat being neither a spy nor a warrior. Has first-hand knowledge of Iran. First meeting in 2015. Joined Steering committee in 2016. They like him.
Sbokou-Constantakopoulou, Costantza (GRC), UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. She is a Greek architect. She was appointed to her UN position to preserve Mediterranean culture. That is highly incompatible with the UN’s and Bilderberg’s plans to flood Europe with uneducated and unskilled migrants.
Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute. Member of the Steering Committee for several years. She is a senior program officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation. She has published articles about national security in the Wall Street Journal, ForeignPolicy.com, The American Interest, Parameters, War on the Rocks, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. – She wrote this: Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate a new political order are not separate from war. They are instead an essential component of war and victory. The Hudson Institute is a think tank that works for US military and espionage services.
Scherf, Gundbert (DEU), Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH. This company focused on leveraging artificial intelligence in defense technology. They develop military strike drones, underwater surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence software designed to enhance weapons systems and improve battlefield decision-making. Bilderberg 2026 seems focused on war.
Schimpf, Brian (USA), Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries. He drives the strategic direction and product roadmap of the defense technology company. Prior to Anduril, Brian was an early hire at Palantir Technologies, where he built the Foundry product that is now deployed worldwide, and led the engineering and product organizations as Director of Engineering. He served numerous domestic and international government organizations across the intelligence, defense, and law enforcement sectors. Previously, Brian was the Founder and Lead of Cornell University’s autonomous vehicle research program where his teams competed in the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge. Based on this work, he published several technical papers on autonomous vehicles. Brian graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. Note a Palantir and DARPA background. Returning participant.
Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc. Former CEO and Chair, Google Member of the Steering Committee for several years. Google is big at Bilderberg. They like to spy on us, but he makes women wear masks in public when he is dating. Google execs have a bad history of relations with women. He thinks self-driving cars and trucks will be here in 5 years. Google was created by DARPA and SRI and then given to two Jewish men who became instant billionaires.
Sedwill, Mark (GBR), Chair of Trustees, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Sedwill is a senior adviser and supervisory board member of Rothschild & Co. He is a career diplomat who has worked in the Mideast, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is another Mideast expert.
Sewell, Terri (USA), Member of Congress. Black Democrat congresswoman who serves on important House committees. She is there to sell Bilderberg to liberal Americans.
Sewing, Christian (DEU), CEO, Deutsche Bank AG. Member of the Steering Committee. Started working for Deutsche Bank when he was 19 and still in school. Worked several overseas locations. Sewing was the head of Deutsche Bank’s audit division during Deutsche Bank’s $10 billion money-laundering scandal involving its Moscow operations. The auditing division gave its Moscow office a clean bill of health, despite serious irregularities. The senior staff has had to take pay cuts as they are in dire financial straits.
Shirzad, Faryar (USA), Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase. He is fluent in Farsi, the Iranian language. He worked for 15 years at Goldman Sachs. He also worked at George W Bush’s National Security Council. He is an expert on cryptocurrencies and Iran both of which interest Bilderberg 2026.
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Minister of Foreign Affairs. He made uncomplimentary comments about the US in a bugged conversation. He was in charge of the Oxford Debate club. He was a member of the Bullingdon group, a very despicable bunch. David Cameron and Boris Johnson were members. He worked at AEI while in America. They are pro-Globalist and supposedly conservative group. Returning participant. Former Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.
Sinirlioğlu, Feridun H. (TUR), Secretary General, OSCE. He is a career Turkish diplomat. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. It has observer status at the United Nations. The OSCE is why he is there. Also, as a Turkish diplomat he could help achieve peace in the Mideast.
Smith, Brad (USA), Vice Chair and President, Microsoft Corporation. Another woke liberal lawyer. He claims to be working on the privacy issues of Microsoft customers and worries about illegal aliens. He works with far left local politicians in the Seattle area.
Smith, Jason (USA), Member of Congress. Jason Smith is a 7th generation Missourian, a 4th generation owner of his family’s farm, a citizen-legislator, and a champion for the rights and values of rural Missourians. Jason chairs the Ways and Means Committee. Very Suspicious. Probably supports AI and Palantir in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Returning participant.
Stoltenberg, Jens (NOR), Minister of Finance. He was twice PM of Norway. In 2011, Stoltenberg received the United Nations (UN) Champion of Global Change Award in New York City. That is a black mark in my book. Former Member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee. But he was dropped in 2025 though he is still attending. He has a lot of explaining to do about NATO’s disaster in the Ukraine. Returning participant.
Stubb, Alexander (FIN), President of the Republic. Stubb speaks five languages: Swedish, Finnish, English, French, and German. His father was Swedish. He graduated from Furman U in the US. Has a diploma from the Sorbonne and a PhD from the London School of Economics. He had been PM in the past. He is the sort of conservative who hangs out at the WEF in Davos and won their praises. Not Good. Returning participant.
Sutter, Petra De (BEL), Rector, Ghent University. Member of the Green party in Belgium and the EU. She was Europe’s first transgender deputy prime minister, and the most senior trans politician in Europe; She is a medical doctor and gynecologist. Bilderberg encourages crazies.
Tangen, Nicolai (NOR), CEO, Norges Bank Investment Management. He is tasked with managing the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is the largest publicly held financial fund in the world and owns approximately 1.5% of the world’s listed companies. That is why he is at Bilderberg.
Tara, Mehmet (TUR), President and Chair, Enka Holding. His holding company operates in a vast variety of sectors with over 50 companies and over 20,000 employees. He runs the largest construction firm in Turkey. Turkey is important to Bilderberg.
Terekh, Iryna (UKR), CEO and CTO, Fire Point LLC; She makes the Flamingo missile and drones. Bilderberg 2026 is interested in the Ukraine and in modern warfare. She fits both demands.
Thalhammer, Anna (AUT), Editor-in-Chief, Profil. Jewish descent. Important in German language media.
Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital LLC. (Not attending this year for unknown reasons.) Member of the Steering Committee. It is possible for members to attend secretly. He is a mentor to VP J D Vance. He is bringing in the younger crowd of high tech billionaires the CIA and NSA will need to end anonymity on the Internet and then close down free speech. It should be noted that he is not an engineer. He is a lawyer and Stanford graduate. He worked as a derivatives trader and runs a Hedge Fund. He owned 10.2% of Facebook pre IPO. Thiel is a founder of PayPal which shuts down service to those who practice free speech on the Internet. He was an early investor in Facebook. PayPal has been linked by John Cruz to money laundering. He is a Libertarian. He defended Trump during the elections. He said: “Everyone says Trump is going to change everything way too much,” says the famed venture capitalist, contrarian and member of the Trump transition team. “Well, maybe Trump is going to change everything way too little. That seems like the much more plausible risk to me.”
Trump, Donald. The US President is supposed to address Bilderberg.
Tucker, Mark (GBR), Chair, AIA Group Ltd. They are an important international insurance company. He was at HSBC for years. It is an old money laundering bank dating back to the Opium wars. Another Banker.
Valentini, Valentino (ITA), Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy. Italian politician. Started out as an interpreter working for the EU. Served in parliament in Foreign Affairs.
Valtonen, Elina (FIN), Minister of Foreign Affairs. She has worked with several tech start-ups. She has served on NATO committees. She is fluent in five languages. A good fit for Bilderberg 2026.
Vance, J D The Vice-President is supposed to be in Pakistan attempting to save the ceasefire which Israel does not want. Even if the negotiations are cancelled, he will still probably address Bilderberg by satellite updating them on the situation. If Trump were to die, he could be forced to make radical reforms.)
Vassy, Luis (FRA), President, Sciences Po. Member of the Steering Committee. He was the cabinet director to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs between July 2022 and July 2024. Prior to that he served as Ambassador of France to the Netherlands and permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from 2019 until 2022. Must like him to elevate him to the Steering Committee.
Vestager, Margrethe (DNK), Chair, Danish Technical University. Member of the Steering Committee. She is Executive Vice-President of the European Commission. She has been a professional politician since the age of 21, her only degree is in economics. She did say she wants her university to concentrate on digitalization.
Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB. Member of the Steering Committee. He is a member of the famous Wallenberg family which was Jewish at one time. A Count Wallenberg was at Jerusalem in 1948 when he was murdered by a Zionist for being fair to Palestinians. He is a director of several banks and of Coca-Cola. His family has a major stake in Astra Zeneca.
Wang, Alexandr (USA), Chief AI Officer, Meta. He has been the chief AI officer of Meta Platforms since 2025 and leads its Superintelligence Labs. He is a friend of Sam Altman. He is a self-made billionaire. Has advised the Pentagon on AI. He attended Trump’s inauguration. He wants to win the AI war against China.
Zakaria, Fareed (USA), Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS. Member of the Steering Committee. He was born in Mumbai to a Muslim family. He has a PhD and had written lots of books. He supported Obama. His CNN show has poor ratings as do all CNN programs. He is a non-practicing Muslim married to a Christian woman. New participant in 2024 though he has attended the related Trilateral Commission. Lots of media attending. Bilderberg has lots of selling to the public to do.
Zarakol, Ayse (TUR), Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge. She was educated in the US. She has written books of interest to Bilderberg. One on the integration of defeated nations into world politics. And a more recent book on the rise of Asian nations. She will be useful at this meeting.
Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Warner Bros. Discovery International. Member of the Steering Committee. He used to run the German media group RTL. Media is important to Bilderberg. They need to control the minds of the proletariat. Remember Zbigniew Brzezinski’s famous quote. “It used to be easier to control a million people than to kill them. Now it is far easier to kill a million people than to control them. He died recently. Nobody in the media quoted that one. He is a long-time member.
Zipse, Oliver (DEU), Chair, BMW AG. He spent his entire professional life at BMW AG. Seems to be a good manager. BMW is important to Bilderberg.
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