Bilderberg 2009 Vouliagmeni

The 57th Bilderberg meeting was held in Vouliagmeni, Greece on 14 - 17 May 2009.Press release, Bilderberg Meetings, 17 May 2009, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 6 July 2010.
==Agenda==
According to the Bilderberg website, the meeting's agenda covered the following items: 
*Governments and Markets
*After the G-20: Role of Institutions
*Protectionism: How Serious
*Cyberterrorism: Policy and Strategy
*Sustainability: Post Kyoto Challenges
*Iraq: Role and Responsibilities in the Region
*Pakistan and Afghanistan
*A New Order: US and the World
*Lessons from a Crisis
*Challenge to Market Economies and Democracies
*New Imperialisms: Russia - China
*Current Affairs: How does Industry see the FutureConferences 2009-1954 - 00's, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 6 July 2010.
==List of Participants==
*Honorary Chairman Etienne Davignon, Vice Chairman, Suez-Tractebel
*Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
*Keith B. Alexander, Director, National Security Agency, USA
*George Alogoskoufis, Member of Parliament, Greece
*Roger C. Altman, Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
*Takis Arapoglou, Chairman and CEO, National Bank of Greece
*Ali Babacan, Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey
*Dora Bakoyannis, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece.
*Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO, Telenor Group
*Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister, Portugal
*Nicolas Baverez, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
*Franco Bernabè, CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A.
*Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden
*Jan Björklund, Minister for Education; Leader of the Liberal Party, Sweden
*Christoph Blocher, Former Swiss Counselor; Former Chairman and CEO, EMS-Group
*Alexandre Bompard, CEO, Europe 1
*Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
*Oscar Bronner, Publisher and Editor, Der Standard
*Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA
*Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, PRISA
*Luc Coene, Vice Governor, National Bank of Belgium
*Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
*George A. David, Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.
*Richard Dearlove, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge
*Annna Diamantopoulou, Member of Parliament, Greece
*Mario Draghi, Governor, Banca d'Italia
*Nicholas N. Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
*Anders Eldrup, President, DONG A/S
*John Elkann, Chairman, EXOR S.p.A.; Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
*Thomas Enders, CEO, Airbus SAS
*José Manuel Entrecanales, Chairman, Acciona
*Werner Faymann, Federal Chancellor, Austria
*Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
*Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group
*Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
*Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
*Ernst M.H. Hirsch Ballin, Minister of Justice, Netherlands
*Richard C. Holbrooke, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
*Jan H.M. Hommen, Chairman, ING N.V.
*Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO
*James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
*Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
*Jyrki Katainen, Minister of Finance, Finland
*John M. Keane, Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired
*Muhtar Kent, President and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
*John Kerr, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
*Eckart von Klaeden, Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU
*Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Alcoa Inc.
*Mustafa V. Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding A.Ş.
*Roland Koch, Prime Minister of Hessen
*Sami Kohen, Senior Foreign Affairs Columnist, Milliyet
*Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
*Marie-Josée Kravis	Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
*Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission
*Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Chairman and Board member of subsidiary companies of the S&B Group
*Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment, France
*Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organization
*Manuela Ferreira Leite, Leader, PSD, Portugal.
*Bernardino León Gross, General Director of the Presidency of the Spanish Government
*Peter Löscher, CEO, Siemens AG
*Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, UK
*Phillipe Maystadt, President, European Investment Bank
*Frank McKenna, Former Ambassador to the US, Canada
*John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
*Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations
*Mario Monti, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
*Miguel A. Moratinos Cuyaubé, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain
*Craig J. Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
*Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice Chancellor, McGill University
*Egil Myklebust, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA
*Matthias Nass, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit
*H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands
*Juan María Nin Génova, President and CEO, La Caixa
*Denis Olivennes, CEO and Editor in Chief, Le Nouvel Observateur
*Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
*George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK
*Frédéric Oudéa, CEO, Société Générale
*Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Former Minister of Finance, Italy; President of Notre Europe
*Alexis Papahelas, Journalist, Kathimerini
*Dimitris Papalexopoulos, Managing Director, Titan Cement Co. S.A.
*Yannis Papathanasiou, Minister of Economy and Finance, Greece.
*Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
*H.R.H. Prince Philippe, Belgium 
*Manuel Pinho, Minister of Economy and Innovation, Portugal
*Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director, Bruegel
*J. Robert S. Prichard, President and CEO, Metrolinx
*Romano Prodi, Chairman, Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation
*Hanna Rajalahti, Managing Editor, Talouselämä
*Heather M. Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
*Eivind Reiten, President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
*Michael Ringier, Chairman, Ringier AG
*David Rockefeller, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
*Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation, New York University
*Suzan Sabanci Dinçer, Chairman, Akbank
*Indira V. Samarasekera, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Alberta
*Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
*Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, UN World Food Programme
*Domenico Siniscalco, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley International
*Pedro Solbes, Vice-President of Spanish Government; Minister of Economy and Finance
*H.M. the Queen of Spain
*James B. Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State
*Björn Stigson, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
*Yannis Stournaras, Research Director, Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE).
*Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
*Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, IEA
*Martin J. Taylor, Chairman, Syngenta International AG
*Peter A. Thiel, Peter A.	President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
*Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Leader of The Social Democratic Party, Denmark
*Thomas Thune Andersen, Partner and CEO, Maersk Oil
*Andreas Treichl, Chairman and CEO, Erste Group Bank AG
*Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank
*Loukas Tsoukalis, President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
*Agah Uǧur, CEO, Borusan Holding
*Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister, Finland
*Daniel L. Vasella, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG
*Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell plc
*Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board, USA
*Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB
*Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman, SEB
*Nout Wellink, President, De Nederlandsche Bank
*Hans Wijers, Chairman, AkzoNobel NV
*Martin H. Wolf, Associate Editor & Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
*James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
*Paul Wolfowitz, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
*Robert B. Zoellick, President, The World Bank GroupParticipants, Bilderberg Meetings, Vouliagmeni, Greece 14-17 May 2009, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 6 July 2010.
===Rapporteurs===
*Vendeline von Bredow, Business Correspondent, The Economist
*Edward McBride, Business Editor, The EconomistParticipants, Bilderberg Meetings, Vouliagmeni, Greece 14-17 May 2009, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 6 July 2010.
==Notes==
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