The 2022 Bilderberg Conference was held between June 2–5 at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington, D.C. (now the Salamander Washington DC Hotel). It was the first time the conference had convened in person since 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Bilderberg Group press release stated that there were approximately 120 participants from 21 countries. The 2022 meeting was the 68th edition of the event.
Established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Bilderberg conferences are an annual private gathering of the European and North American political and business elite. Events are attended by between 120 and 150 people each year invited by the Bilderberg Group's steering committee; including high-level politicians, CEOs, national security experts, academics and journalists.
During the conference, the Mandarin Oriental was entirely booked out and cordoned off with barricades. Police cars and limousines were reported to be surrounding the entrance, and a Hong Kong flag was flown outside the hotel. Hotel staff spoken to by journalists from The Australian claimed to either not know what was going on inside, or that they could not say.
Agenda The key topics for discussion at the 2022 Bilderberg conference were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. Topics for discussion included:
Geopolitical Realignments NATO Challenges China Indo-Pacific Realignment Sino-US Tech Competition Russia Continuity of Government and the Economy Disruption of the Global financial system Disinformation Energy Security and Sustainability Post Pandemic Health Fragmentation of Democratic Societies Trade and Deglobalization Ukraine
Participants A list of 120 participants was published on the Bilderberg website. This list may not be complete, as a source connected to the Bilderberg group told The Daily Telegraph in 2013 that some attendees do not have their names publicized."Bilderberg Group? No conspiracy, just the most influential group in the world". The Daily Telegraph (London). June 6, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013. The Guardian reported that it was "highly likely" that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be joining the meeting via Zoom.
Beate Meinl-Reisinger Andreas Treichl Gerhard Zeiler
Thomas Leysen Tinne Van der Straeten
Mark J. Carney Charles Emond Chrystia Freeland Mark Little Tobias Lütke
Ida Auken Connie Hedegaard Martin Krasnik (International) Charles Michel Didier Reynders Margaritis Schinas
Erkki Liikanen Sanna Marin Kaius Niemi
Patricia Barbizet Valérie Baudson Thomas Buberl Bernard Émié Patrick Pouyanné
Paul M. Achleitner (treasurer) Mathias Döpfner Jörg Kukies Constanze Stelzenmüller
Dimitri Papalexopoulos Kyriakos Pierrakakis Markos Veremis
Thomas Byrne Paschal Donohoe Michael O'Leary
Stefano Feltri Francesco Starace (International) Jens Stoltenberg
Ben van Beurden Victor Halberstadt (co-chair) Ralph Hamers Wopke Hoekstra Jean Marc Huët Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Mark Rutte Peter Wennink
Øyvind Eriksen Grace Reksten Skaugen
Wojciech Kostrzewa Radoslaw Sikorski
José Luís Arnaut José Manuel Barroso Isabel Furtado Ana Pinho Diogo Salvi Nuno Sebastião
José Manuel Albares Pablo Casado Carlos Núñez
Lena Hallengren Martin Lundstedt Marcus Wallenberg
Sergio Ermotti André Kudelski Livia Leu
Emre Erdogan Ömer Koç Mithat Rende Murat Yetkin Afsin Yurdakul
Oksana Markarowa Yuriy Vitrenko
Jeremy Fleming Michael Gove Demis Hassabis Shashank Joshi David Lammy Bernard Looney Zanny Minton Beddoes Gideon Rachman John Sawers Mark Sedwill Mustafa Suleyman Tom Tugendhat Emma Walmsley (International) Audrey Azoulay
Adewale Adeyemo Roger C. Altman Sam Altman Anne Applebaum James H. Baker Albert Bourla William J. Burns Kurt Campbell Tarun Chhabra William C. Dudley Jen Easterly Elizabeth Economy Yaya Fanusie Mary Kay Henry Mellody Hobson Ben Hodges Reid Hoffman Alex Karp Henry A. Kissinger Michael Kofman Henry R. Kravis Marie-Josée Kravis (co-chair) Yann LeCun Michael Mullen Craig J. Mundie David H. Petraeus Gina M. Raimondo Nadia Schadlow Eric E. Schmidt Kevin Scott Kyrsten Sinema Jake Sullivan Ashley J. Tellis Peter Thiel Celeste Wallander
See also List of Bilderberg meetings
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