The 2024 Bilderberg Conference was held between May 30–June 2, 2024 in Madrid, Spain at the Eurostars Suites Mirasierra hotel. The 2024 meeting was the 70th edition of the event. A Bilderberg Group press release stated that there were 131 participants from around 25 countries.
Established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Bilderberg conferences (or meetings) 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 prominent politicians, CEOs, national security experts, academics and journalists. Several US presidents have attended the meetings before winning a presidential election. These politicians include Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Bilderberg conferences operate under the Chatham House Rule, meaning that participants are sworn to secrecy and cannot disclose the identity or affiliation of any particular speaker.
Agenda The key topics for discussion were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. These topics included:
State of AI AI Safety Changing Faces of Biology Climate Future of Warfare Geopolitical Landscape Europe's Economic Challenges US Economic Challenges US Political Landscape Ukraine and the World Middle East China Russia
Participants A list of 131 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. King Felipe VI of Spain was reported to have attended the meeting despite his name not being on the list.
Pamela Rendi-Wagner Robert Zadrazil Gerhard Zeiler
Ilham Kadri Thomas Leysen Karel Verhoeven
Yoshua Bengio Mark J. Carney François-Philippe Champagne Evan Siddall
Bjarne Corydon Connie Hedegaard Søren Pind
Kaja Kallas (International) Nadia Calviño Paschal Donohoe Paolo Gentiloni Wopke Hoekstra Ylva Johansson Charles Michel Maroš Šefčovič
Anders Adlercreutz Erkki Liikanen Alexander Stubb Erja Yläjärvi
Patricia Barbizet Valérie Baudson Henri de Castries Arthur Mensch Agnès Pannier-Runacher Édouard Philippe Patrick Pouyanné
Jamil Anderlini Marco Buschmann Mathias Döpfner Friedrich Merz Wolfgang Schmidt Christian Sewing
Niki Kerameus Alexis Papahelas Dimitri Papalexopoulos
Simon Coveney Michael O'Leary Leo Varadkar
Marco Alverà Lorenzo Bini Smaghi Michele Della Vigna Giuliano da Empoli Lilli Gruber Mario Monti (International) James Appathurai Christopher Cavoli Jens Stoltenberg
Charlene de Carvalho Caroline de Gruyter Victor Halberstadt Tom-Jan Meeus Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Mark Rutte
Kjerstin Braathen Øyvind Eriksen Other (International) Alexander Gabuev
Andrzej Domański Kasia Kieli Radoslaw Sikorski
José Manuel Barroso Isabel Gil Duarte Moreira
Anatoly Chubays
José Manuel Albares Ana P. Botín Ildefonso Castro José Creuheras Carlos Cuerpo Sol Daurella Comadrán José M. Entrecanales Pablo Hernández de Cos Pedro J. Ramírez José Juan Ruiz
Daniel Ek Ann Linde Marcus Wallenberg
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral André Kudelski
Mustafa Aydin Kadri Gürsel Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan Ömer Koç Mehmet Şimşek
Dmytro Kuleba
Murray Auchincloss Demis Hassabis Zanny Minton Beddoes Gideon Rachman Wael Sawan John Sawers Mustafa Suleyman Martin H. Wolf (International) Sigrid Kaag
Stacey Abrams Adewale Adeyemo Roger C. Altman Dario Amodei Anne Applebaum Albert Bourla Tarun Chhabra Jen Easterly Niall Ferguson Jonathan Finer Jane Fraser Kevin Harrington Mellody Hobson Alex Karp Stephen Kotkin Henry R. Kravis Marie-Josée Kravis Eric S. Lander Peter Lee Robert Lighthizer Palmer Luckey John Micklethwait David H. Petraeus Richard H. Phillips Nadia Schadlow Eric E. Schmidt Wendy R. Sherman Bret Stephens Peter Thiel Jonathan D. T. Ward Thomas Wright Fareed Zakaria
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