1-2-2021 - The Bilderberg Group is a non-governmental organization founded in 1954 with the publicly-stated goal of preventing a third world war. An annual meeting has been conducted since 1954, with the intent of fostering dialogue between world leaders in politics, business, finance, the news media, and academia. Participation in the meeting is by invitation-only, and typically consists of 120 - 150 individuals. The meetings are private, and participants are not allowed to publicly reveal the names of speakers, or to publicly reveal positions taken by speakers or other participants.
- King Philippe of Belgium
- Queen Sofía of Spain
- Prince Philip of the British Commonwealth
- Prince Charles of the British Commonwealth
- Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- Henry Kissinger
- George Soros
- Angela Merkel
- Bill Clinton
- Hillary Clinton
- Sam Nunn
- John Kerry
- Lindsey Graham
- John Edwards
- Dick Gephardt
- Condoleezza Rice
- Tony Blair
- Margaret Thatcher
- Gordon Brown
- David Cameron
- Alexander Haig
- David Petraeus
- H.R. McMaster
- David Rockefeller, Sr.
- Paul Volcker
- Ben Bernanke
- Jeff Bezos (Founder & CEO of Amazon, owns The Washington Post, world's richest man)
- David M. Cote (Chairman and CEO of Honeywell)
- Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal)
- Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet)
- Bill Gates (current Chairman of Microsoft)
- Satya Nadella (current CEO of Microsoft)
- Chris Hughes (co-founder of Facebook)
- Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn)
- Donald E. Graham (former Publisher of The Washington Post, current member of Board of Directors of Facebook, owns seven US television stations)
- Richard Engel (Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News)
- Peggy Noonan (Columnist with the Wall Street Journal)
- George Stephanopoulos (Chief Washington Correspondent, ABC News)
- John Micklethwait (Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg News)
- Zanny Minton Beddoes (Editor-in-Chief, The Economist magazine)