Bilderberg 2013 Watford

Bilderberg 2013 Watford, The 61st Bilderberg meeting took place from 6-9 June 2013 in Hertfordshire, UK. Around 140 participants from 21 European and North American countries attended.Meeting 2013, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 3 June 2013.
==Agenda==
*Can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs?
*Jobs, entitlement and debt
*How big data is changing almost everything
*Nationalism and populism
*US foreign policy
*Africa’s challenges
*Cyber warfare and the proliferation of asymmetric threats
*Major trends in medical research
*Online education: promise and impacts
*Politics of the European Union
*Developments in the Middle East
*Current affairsMeeting 2013, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 3 June 2013.
==Participants==
*Chairman, Henri de Castries, France, Chairman and CEO, AXA Group.	
*Paul M. Achleitner, Germany, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG.
*Josef Ackermann, Germany, Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd.
*Marcus Agius, Great Britain, Former Chairman, Barclays plc.
*Helen Alexander, Great Britain, Chairman, UBM plc.
*Roger C. Altman, United States, Executive Chairman, Evercore Partners.
*Matti Apunen, Finland, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA.
*Susan Athey, United States, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
*Asli Aydıntaşbaş, Turkey, Columnist, Milliyet Newspaper.
*Ali Babacan, Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs.
*Edward M. Balls, Great Britain, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.
*Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portugal, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA
*Nicolas Barré, France, Managing Editor, Les Echos
*José M. Durão Barroso, President, European Commission.
*Nicolas Baverez, France, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
*Olivier de Bavinchove, Commander, Eurocorps.
*John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford.
*Franco Bernabè, Italy, Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A.
*Jeff Bezos, United States, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com.
*Carl Bildt, Sweden, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
*Anders Borg, Sweden, Minister for Finance.
*Jean François van Boxmeer, Netherlands, Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, Heineken N.V.
*Svein Richard Brandtzæg, Norway, President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
*Oscar Bronner, Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt.
*Peter Carrington, Great Britain, Former Honorary Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings.
*Juan Luis Cebrián, Spain, Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA.
*W. Edmund Clark, President and CEO, TD Bank Group.
*Kenneth Clarke, Great Britain, Member of Parliament.
*Bjarne Corydon, Denmark, Minister of Finance.
*Sherard Cowper-Coles, Business Development Director, International, BAE Systems plc
*Enrico Tommaso Cucchiani, Italy, CEO, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
*Etienne Davignon, Belgium, Minister of State; Former Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings
*Ian Davis, Great Britain, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company.
*Robbert H. Dijkgraaf, Netherlands, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
*Haluk Dinçer, Turkey, President, Retail and Insurance Group, Sabancı Holding A.S.
*Robert Dudley, Great Britain, Group Chief Executive, BP plc
*Nicholas N. Eberstadt, United States, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute.
*Espen Barth Eide, Norway,	Minister of Foreign Affairs.
*Börje Ekholm, Sweden, President and CEO, Investor AB.
*Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS.
*J. Michael Evans, United States, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co.
*Ulrik Federspiel, Denmark, Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S.
*Martin S. Feldstein, United States, Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, NBER.
*François Fillon, France, Former Prime Minister.
*Mark C. Fishman, , United States, President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
*Douglas J. Flint, Great Britain, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
*Paul Gallagher, Ireland, Senior Counsel.
*Timothy F. Geithner, United States, Former Secretary of the Treasury
*Michael Gfoeller, United States, Political Consultant.
*Donald E. Graham, United States, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company.
*Ulrich Grillo, Germany, CEO, Grillo-Werke AG.
*Lilli Gruber, Italy, Journalist - Anchorwoman, La 7 TV.
*Luis de Guindos, Spain, Minister of Economy and Competitiveness.
*Stuart Gulliver, Great Britain, Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc.
*Felix Gutzwiller, Switzerland,Member of the Swiss Council of States.
*Victor Halberstadt, Netherlands, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings.
*Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
*Simon Henry, Great Britain, CFO, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
*Paul Hermelin, France, Chairman and CEO, Capgemini Group.
*Pablo Isla, Spain, Chairman and CEO, Inditex Group.
*Kenneth M. Jacobs, United States, Chairman and CEO, Lazard.
*James A. Johnson, United States, Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners. 
*Thomas J. Jordan, Switzerland, Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank.
*Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., United States, Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC.
*Robert D. Kaplan, United States, Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor.
*Alex Karp, United States, Founder and CEO, Palantir Technologies.
*John Kerr, Great Britain, Independent Member, House of Lords.
*Henry A. Kissinger, United States, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
*Klaus Kleinfeld, United States, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa.
*Klaas H.W. Knot, Netherlands, President, De Nederlandsche Bank.
*Mustafa V. Koç, Turkey, Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
*Roland Koch, Germany, CEO, Bilfinger SE.
*Henry R. Kravis, United States,Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
*Marie-Josée Kravis, United States, Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute
*André Kudelski, Switzerland, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group. 
*Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Greece, Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals S.A.
*Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund.
*Kurt J. Lauk, Germany, Chairman of the Economic Council to the CDU, Berlin.
*Lawrence Lessig, United States, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School; Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
*Thomas Leysen, Belgium, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group.
*Christian Lindner, Germany, Party Leader, Free Democratic Party (FDP NRW)
*Stefan Löfven, Sweden, Party Leader, Social Democratic Party (SAP)
*Peter Löscher, Germany, President and CEO, Siemens AG.
*Peter Mandelson, Great Britain, Chairman, Global Counsel; Chairman, Lazard International. 
*Jessica T. Mathews, United States, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
*Frank McKenna, Canada, Chair, Brookfield Asset Management.
*John Micklethwait, Great Britain, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist.
*Thierry de Montbrial, France, President, French Institute for International Relations.
*Mario Monti, Italy, Former Prime Minister.
*Craig J. Mundie, United States, Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation.
*Alberto Nagel, Italy, CO, Mediobanca.
*H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands.
*Andrew Y. Ng, United States, Co-Founder, Coursera.
*Jorma Ollila, Finland, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc.
*David Omand, Great Britain, Visiting Professor, King's College London
*George Osborne, Great Britain, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
*Emanuele Ottolenghi, United States, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
*Soli Özel, Turkey, Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University; Columnist, Habertürk Newspaper.
*Alexis Papahelas,Greece, Executive Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper.
*Şafak Pavey, Turkey, Member of Parliament (CHP).
*Valérie Pécresse, France, Member of Parliament (UMP).
*Richard N. Perle, United States, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
*David H. Petraeus, United States,	General, U.S. Army (Retired).
*Paulo Portas, Portugal, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs
*J. Robert S. Prichard, Canada, Chair, Torys LLP.
*Viviane Reding, Vice President and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, European Commission.
*Heather M. Reisman, Canada, CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
*Hélène Rey, France, Professor of Economics, London Business School
*Simon Robertson, Great Britain, Partner, Robertson Robey Associates LLP; Deputy Chairman, HSBC Holdings.
*Gianfelice Rocca, Italy, Chairman, Techint Group.
*Jacek Rostowski,Poland, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister.
*Robert E. Rubin, United States, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
*Mark Rutte, Netherlands, Prime Minister.
*Andreas Schieder, Austria, State Secretary of Finance 
*Eric E. Schmidt, United States, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
*Rudolf Scholten, Austria, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG.
*António José Seguro, Portugal, Secretary General, Socialist Party.
*Jean-Dominique Senard, France, CEO, Michelin Group.
*Kristin Skogen Lund, Norway, Director General, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise.
*Anne-Marie Slaughter, United States, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
*Peter D. Sutherland, Ireland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International.
*Martin Taylor, Great Britain, Former Chairman, Syngenta AG
*Tidjane Thiam, Group CEO, Prudential plc.
*Peter A.Thiel, President, Thiel Capital.
*Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
*Jakob Haldor Topsøe, Denmark, Partner, AMBROX Capital A/S.
*Jutta Urpilainen, Finland, Minister of Finance.
*Daniel L. Vasella, Honorary Chairman, Novartis AG
*Peter R. Voser, Great Britain, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
*Brad Wall, Canada, Premier of Saskatchewan.
*Jacob Wallenberg, Sweden, Chairman, Investor AB.
*Kevin Warsh, United States, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
*Galen G. Weston, Canada, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited.
*Shirley Williams of Crosby, Great Britain, Member, House of Lords.
*Martin H. Wolf, Great Britain, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
*James D. Wolfensohn, United States, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company.
*David Wright, Great Britain, Vice Chairman, Barclays plc.
*Robert B. Zoellick, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics.Meeting 2013, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 3 June 2013.
==External resources==
*Cameron to attend 'secretive' Bilderberg meeting, BBC News, 7 June 2013.
*Sarah Butcher, 7 Bankers Who Never Miss The Most Secretive, Annual Meeting Of The World's Rich And Powerful, Business Insider, 3 June 2013
*Tom Griffin, Bilderberg 2013, Spinwatch, 6 June 2013
*Matthew Holehouse, Osborne, Clarke and Balls to attend Bilderberg Group meeting, telegraph.co.uk, 3 June 2013.
*Matthew Holehouse, Bilderberg Group? No conspiracy, just the most influential group in the world, telegraph.co.uk, 6 June 2013.
*Harry Phibbs, Now that it is no longer secret, is the Bilderberg Group losing its cachet?, ConservativeHome, 8 June 2013.
*Dorothy Thornhill, A reflection post Bilderberg conference in Watford, mycouncillor.org.uk, 11 June 2013.
==Notes==
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