Bilderberg 2008 Chantilly

The 56th Bilderberg meeting was held in Chantilly, Virginia, USA on 5 – 8 June 2008.Press release, Bilderberg Meetings, 5 June 2008, bilderbergmeetings.org, 7 July 2010.
==Agenda==
According to the Bilderberg website, the agenda included the following items:
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*Cyber-terrorism
*A Nuclear-Free World
*Managing Financial Turbulence
*US Foreign Policy Without Change
*How Serious Are the Threats on Our Economies
*Islam in Europe
*Africa
*Afghanistan, Challenge for the West
*Iran-Pakistan
*A Look at the Future
*The Mounting Threat of Protectionism
*Russia
*After Bush: The Future of US-EU Relations
*Current Affairs: US ElectionsConferences 2009-1954 - 00's, bilderbergmeetings.org, acessed 7 July 2010.
==Participants==
*Honorary Chairman Etienne Davignon, Vice Chairman, Suez-Tractebel
*Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
*John Adams,	Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada
*Fouad Ajami, Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
*Keith B. Alexander, Director, National Security Agency
*Joaquín Almunia, Commissioner, European Commission
*George Alogoskoufis, Minister of Economy and Finance, Greece
*Roger C. Altman, Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
*Ali Babacan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
*Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister, Netherlands
*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 Spa
*Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
*Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sweden.
*Antti Blåfield, Senior Editorial Writer, Helsingin Sanomat
*Stine Bosse CEO, TrygVesta
*Ian Brodie, Chief of Staff, Prime Minister's Office, Canada
*Oscar Bronner, Publisher and Editor, Der Standard
*Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA
*Juan Luis Cebrián, CEO, PRISA
*Edmund Clark, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
*Kenneth Clarke, Member of Parliament, UK
*Kristin Clemet, Managing Director, Civita
*Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
*Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman, Lafarge
*António Costa, Mayor of Lisbon
*Chester A. Crocker, James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies
*Thomas A. Daschle, Former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader
*Paul Desmarais, Jr., Chairman and co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada
*Anna Diamantopoulou, Member of Parliament, Greece
*Thomas E. Donilon, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
*Mario Draghi, Governor, Banca d'Italia
*Brigitte Ederer, CEO, Siemens AG Österreich
*N. Murray Edwards, Vice Chairman, Canadian Natural Resources Limited
*Anders Eldrup, President, DONG A/S
*John Elkann, Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
*Martha J. Farah Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience; Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
*Martin S. Feldstein, President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research, USA
*Joschka Fischer, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany
*Harold E. Ford, Jr., Vice Chairman, Merill Lynch & Co., Inc.
*Peter Forstmoser, Professor for Civil, Corporation and Capital Markets Law, University of Zürich
*Paul Gallagher, Attorney General, Ireland
*Timothy F. Geithner, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
*Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal
*Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, AIB Group
*Harold Goddijn, CEO, TomTom
*Zeynep Göğüş, Journalist; Founder, EurActiv.com.tr
*Donald E. Graham, Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
*Victor Halberstadt, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
*Richard C. Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
*Seppo Honkapohja, Member of the Board, Bank of Finland
*Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General, NATO
*Allan B. Hubbard, Chairman, E & A Industries, Inc.
*Jan Huyghebaert, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group
*Wolfgang Ischinger, Former Ambassador of Germany to the UK and US.
*Kenneth Jacobs, Deputy Chairman, Head of Lazard U.S., Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
*James A. Johnson, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
*Tom Johnstone, President and CEO, AB SKF
*Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
*Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Minister of European Affairs, France
*John Kerr, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
*Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
*Eckart von Klaeden, Foreign Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU
*Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Alcoa
*Mustafa Koç, Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
*Bassma Kodmani, Director, Arab Reform Initiative
*Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
*Marie-Josée Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
*Neelie Kroes, Commissioner, European Commission
*Aleksander Kwasniewski, Former President, Poland
*Wolfgang Leitner, CEO, Andritz AG
*Bernardino León Gross, Secretary General, Office of the Prime Minister, Spain
*Peter Mandelson, Commissioner, European Commission
*Christophe de Margerie, CEO, Total
*Roger Martin, Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
*János Martonyi, Professor of International Trade Law; Partner, Baker & McKenzie; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary
*Jessica T. Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
*Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner, European Commission
*William J. McDonough, Vice Chairman and Special Advisor to the Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
*Frank McKenna, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group
*Tom McKillop, Chairman, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
*Thierry de Montbrial, President, French Institute for International Relations
*Mario Monti, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
*Craig J. Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
*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
*Christine Ockrent, CEO, French television and radio world service
*Jorma Ollila, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
*Maud Olofsson, Minister of Enterprise and Energy; Deputy Prime Minister, Sweden.
*H.R.H. the Prince of Orange
*George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Faik Öztrak, Member of Parliament, Turkey
*Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Former Minister of Finance; President of Notre Europe, Italy. 
*Alexis Papahelas, Journalist, Kathimerini
*Dimitris Papalexopoulos, CEO, Titan Cement Co. S.A.
*Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, USA
*Frank H. Pearl, Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC
*Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
*François Pérol, Deputy General Secretary in charge of Economic Affairs, France
*Volker Perthes, Director, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
*H.R.H. Prince Phillipe, Belgium.	 
*J. Robert S. Prichard, President and CEO, Torstar Corporation
*Heather M. Reisman, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
*Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, USA
*Rui Rio, Mayor of Porto
*David Rockefeller, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
*Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander
*Charlie Rose, Producer, Rose Communications
*Flemming Rose, Editor, Jyllands Posten
*Dennis B. Ross, Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
*Barnett R. Rubin Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation, New York University
*Ferit Şahenk, Chairman, Doğuş Holding A.Ş.
*Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina
*Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO, Google
*Rudolf Scholten, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
*Fritz. H. Schur, Fritz Schur Gruppen
*Karel Schwarzenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
*Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas
*George P. Shultz, Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
*H.M. the Queen of Spain	 
*Markus Spillmann, Editor-in-Chief and Head Managing Board, Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG
*Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot Professor, Harvard University
*J. Martin Taylor, Chairman, Syngenta International AG
*Peter A. Thiel, President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
*Frans Timmermans, Minister of European Affairs, Netherlands
*Dmitri V. Trenin, Deputy Director and Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center
*Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank
*Sanam Vakil, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
*Manuel Valls, Member of Parliament, France
*Thomas Varvitsiotis, Co-Founder and President, V + O Communication
*Daniel L. Vasella, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG
*Raimo Väyrynen, Director, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs
*Hubert Védrine, Hubert Védrine Conseil
*Knut Vollebaek, High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE
*Jacob Wallenberg, Chairman, Investor AB
*J. Vin Weber, CEO, Clark & Weinstock
*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, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 8 July 2010.
==Rapporteurs==	 
*Vendeline von Bredow, Business Correspondent, The Economist
*Adrian D. Wooldridge, Foreign Correspondent, The EconomistParticipants, Bilderberg Meetings, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, bilderbergmeetings.org, accessed 8 July 2010.
==Notes==
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