Bilderberg 2012 Chantilly

The 60th Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia, USA began on 31 May 2012 and was due to close on 3 June 2012.Press Release, Bilderberg Meetings, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 2 June 2012.
==Agenda==
According to a press release issued ahead of the conference, it was due to "deal mainly with political, economic and societal issues like Transatlantic Relations, Evolution of the Political Landscape in Europe and the US, Austerity and Growth in Developed Economies, Cyber Security, Energy Challenges, the Future of Democracy, Russia, China and the Middle East."Press Release, Bilderberg Meetings, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 2 June 2012.
==Participants==
*Chairman: Henri de Castries Chairman and CEO, AXA Group
*Josef Ackermann	Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
*Marcus Agius	Chairman, Barclays plc
*Fouad Ajami	Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
*Keith B. Alexander	Commander, US Cyber Command; Director, National Security Agency
*Joaquín Almunia	Vice-President - Commissioner for Competition, European Commission
*Roger C. Altman	Chairman, Evercore Partners
*Luís Amado	Chairman, Banco Internacional do Funchal (BANIF)
*Johan H. Andresen	Owner and CEO, FERD
*Matti Apunen,	Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
*Ali Babacan	Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs
*Francisco Pinto Balsemão 	President and CEO, Impresa; Former Prime Minister
*Nicolas Baverez	Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
*Christophe Béchu	Senator, and Chairman, General Council of Maine-et-Loire
*H.R.H. Prince Philippe of Belgium 
*Enis Berberoğlu	Editor-in-Chief, Hürriyet Newspaper
*Franco Bernabè	Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia
*Nick Boles	Member of Parliament
*Jonas Bonnier	President and CEO, Bonnier AB
*Svein Richard Brandtzæg 	President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
*Oscar Bronner	Publisher, Der Standard Medienwelt
*Gunilla Carlsson 	Minister for International Development Cooperation
*Mark J. Carney	Governor, Bank of Canada
*Juan Luis Cebrián 	CEO, PRISA; Chairman, El País
*Willibald Cernko 	CEO, UniCredit Bank Austria AG
*Pierre André de Chalendar 	Chairman and CEO, Saint-Gobain
*Jeppe Christiansen	CEO, Maj Invest
*Anatoly B. Chubais 	CEO, OJSC RUSNANO
*W. Edmund Clark 	Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group
*Kenneth Clarke	Member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of Justice
*Timothy C. Collins	CEO and Senior Managing Director, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
*Fulvio Conti	CEO and General Manager, Enel S.p.A.
*Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. Mitchell E.	Governor of Indiana
*Christopher DeMuth	Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute
*Thomas E. Donilon	National Security Advisor, The White House
*Robert Dudley	Group Chief Executive, BP plc
*John Elkann	Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
*Thomas Enders	CEO, Airbus
*Michael J. Evans	Vice Chairman, Global Head of Growth Markets, Goldman Sachs & Co.
*Werner Faymann	Federal Chancellor of Austria.
*Ulrik Federspiel	Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S
*Niall Ferguson	Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
*Douglas J. Flint 	Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
*Ying Fu	Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, China.
*Paul Gallagher	Former Attorney General of Ireland; Senior Counsel
*Richard A. Gephardt	President and CEO, Gephardt Group
*Anastasios Giannitsis 	Former Minister of Interior, Greece; Professor of Development and International Economics, University of Athens
*Austan D. Goolsbee	Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
*Donald E. Graham	Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
*Lilli Gruber,	Journalist - Anchorwoman, La 7 TV
*Karel de Gucht	Commissioner for Trade, European Commission
*Victor Halberstadt	Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
*Britt Harris	CIO, Teacher Retirement System of Texas
*Reid Hoffman	Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
*Yiping Huang	Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
*Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.	Chairman, Huntsman Cancer Foundation
*Wolfgang Ischinger	Chairman, Munich Security Conference; Global Head Government Relations, Allianz SE
*Igor S. Ivanov	Associate member, Russian Academy of Science; President, Russian International Affairs Council
*Erik Izraelewicz	CEO, Le Monde
*Kenneth M. Jacobs	Chairman and CEO, Lazard
*James A. Johnson	Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
*Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.	Senior Managing Director, Lazard
*Alexander Karp	CEO, Palantir Technologies
*Alexander Karsner Executive Chairman, Manifest Energy, Inc
*Anousheh Karvar	Inspector, Inter-ministerial Audit and Evaluation Office for Social, Health, Employment and Labor Policies, France. 
*Garry Kasparov	Chairman, United Civil Front (of Russia)
*John Kerr	Independent Member, House of Lords
*John Kerry	Senator for Massachusetts
*E. Fuat Keyman	Director, Istanbul Policy Center and Professor of International Relations, Sabanci University
*Henry A. Kissinger	Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
*Klaus Kleinfeld	Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
*Mustafa Koç	Chairman, Koç Holding A.Ş.
*Roland Koch	CEO, Bilfinger Berger SE
*Bassma Kodmani	Member of the Executive Bureau and Head of Foreign Affairs, Syrian National Council
*Henry R. Kravis	Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
*Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
*Neeli Kroes	Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda
*Fred Krupp	President, Environmental Defense Fund
*Pascal Lamy	Director-General, World Trade Organization
*Enrico Letta	Deputy Leader, Democratic Party (PD)
*Ariel E. Levite	Nonresident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
*Cheng Li	Director of Research and Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
*John Lipsky	Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
*Andrew N. Liveris	President, Chairman and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company
*Peter Löscher	President and CEO, Siemens AG
*William J. Lynn	Chairman and CEO, DRS Technologies, Inc.
*Peter Mandelson	Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel
*Jessica T. Mathews	President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
*Jacob Mchangama	Director of Legal Affairs, Center for Political Studies (CEPOS)
*Frank McKenna	Deputy Chair, TD Bank Group
*Kenneth B. Mehlman,	Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
*John Micklethwait	Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
*Thierry de Montbrial President, French Institute for International Relations
*Jorge Moreira da Silva	First Vice-President, Partido Social Democrata (PSD)
*Craig J. Mundie	Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
*Matthias Nass,	Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit
*H.M. The Queen of the Netherlands 
*Juan María Nin Génova, Deputy Chairman and CEO, Caixabank
*Michael Noonan	Minister for Finance, Ireland.
*Peggy Noonan	Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
*Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, plc
*Peter R. Orszag, Vice Chairman, Citigroup
*Dimitri Papalexopoulos, Managing Director, Titan Cement Co.
*Alexander Pechtold, Parliamentary Leader, Democrats '66 (D66)
*Richard N. Perle	Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
*Paul Polman	CEO, Unilever PLC
*J. Robert S. Prichard	Chair, Torys LLP
*Itamar Rabinovich	Global Distinguished Professor, New York University
*Gideon Rachman	Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, The Financial Times
*Steven Rattner	Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC
*Alison M. Redford	Premier of Alberta
*Heather M. Reisman	CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
*Wolfgang Reitzle	CEO & President, Linde AG
*Kenneth S. Rogoff	Professor of Economics, Harvard University
*Charlie Rose	Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
*Dennis B. Ross	Counselor, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
*Jacek Rostowski	Minister of Finance, Poland.
*Robert E. Rubin	Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
*Mark Rutte	Prime Minister, Netherlands.
*Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría Antón, Soraya	Vice President and Minister for the Presidency, Spain.
*Paul Scheffer	Professor of European Studies, Tilburg University
*Eric E. Schmidt	Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
*Rudolf Scholten	Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
*Jean-Dominique Senard	CEO, Michelin Group
*David Shambaugh	Director, China Policy Program, George Washington University
*Josette Sheeran	Vice Chairman, World Economic Forum
*Risto Siilasmaa	Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nokia Corporation
*Jerry I. Speyer 	Chairman and Co-CEO, Tishman Speyer
*Pietro Supino	Chairman and Publisher, Tamedia AG
*Peter D. Sutherland	Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
*Peter A. Thiel	President, Clarium Capital / Thiel Capital
*Serpil Timuray	CEO, Vodafone Turkey
*Jürgen Trittin	Parliamentary Leader, Alliance 90/The Greens
*Loukas Tsoukalis	President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
*Jutta Urpilainen	Minister of Finance
*Daniel L. Vasella	Chairman, Novartis AG
*Pierre Vimont	Executive Secretary General, European External Action Service
*Peter Voser	CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
*Jacob Wallenberg	Chairman, Investor AB
*Kevin Warsh	Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
*Martin H. Wolf	Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
*James D. Wolfensohn	Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company
*Nigel S. Wright	Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime Minister, Canada.
*Daniel Yergin	Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates
*Robert B. Zoellick	President, The World Bank Group
===Rapporteurs===	
*Vendeline von Bredow	Business Correspondent, The Economist
*Adrian D. Wooldridge	Foreign Correspondent, The EconomistParticipants, Bilderberg Meetings, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 31 May-3 June 2012, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 2 June 2012.
==Notes==
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