The 2025 Bilderberg Conference was held between June 12–June 15, 2025 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, Sweden. The 2025 meeting was the 71st edition of the event. A Bilderberg Group press release listed 121 participants from 23 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.
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. As a result, media are not invited and delegates rarely speak about what was discussed.
Permits for two public demonstrations against the meeting were requested, one of which, a march from the Norrmalm Square to the Grand Hôtel, was planned for June 14.
Agenda The key topics for discussion were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. These topics included:
Transatlantic Relationship Ukraine US Economy Europe Middle East Authoritarian Axis Defence Innovation and Resilience AI, Deterrence and National Security Proliferation Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals Depopulation and Migration
Participants A list of 121 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. Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson attended the meeting despite his name not appearing on the published participant list.
Austria
Gerhard Zeiler Belgium Thomas Leysen
Canada Murray Auchincloss François-Philippe Champagne Chrystia Freeland
Denmark Connie Hedegaard
European Union (International) Maria Luís Albuquerque Magnus Brunner Nadia Calviño Paschal Donohoe Wopke Hoekstra Michael McGrath Maroš Šefčovič Sophie Wilmès Finland
Erkki Liikanen Sanna Marin Alexander Stubb
France Gabriel Attal Patricia Barbizet
Patrice Caine Henri de Castries Jean Lemierre Arthur Mensch Édouard Philippe Patrick Pouyanné Nicolas Roche Laurent Toulemon Luis Vassy
Germany Mathias Döpfner Julia Klöckner Katherina Reiche Gundbert Scherf Wolfgang Schmidt Christian Sewing
Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis Dimitri Papalexopoulos Ireland Jack Chambers Anne Heraty Michael O'Leary Italy Marco Alverà
Enrico Letta Mario Monti Valentino Valentini
NATO (International) Geoffrey van Leeuwen Mark Rutte Netherlands
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Kajsa Ollongren Rolly van Rappard David van Weel
Norway Børge Brende Øyvind Eriksen
Jens Stoltenberg
Other (International) Fatih Birol Alexander Gabuev Alexandra Prokopenko
Poland Rafal Brzoska Wojciech Kostrzewa Radoslaw Sikorski Portugal José Manuel Barroso Leonor Beleza Diogo Salvi
Spain Diego del Alcázar Benjumea Ana Botín Pablo Hernández de Cos Pablo Isla Sweden Magdalena Andersson Ebba Busch Daniel Ek Börje Ekholm Micael Johansson
Martin Lundstedt Jacob Wallenberg Marcus Wallenberg Switzerland André Kudelski Beatrice Weder di Mauro Turkey Murat Özyeğin Mehmet Şimşek Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba United Kingdom Demis Hassabis Jeremy Hunt Zanny Minton Beddoes Gideon Rachman John Sawers Wes Streeting United States Stacey Abrams Anne Applebaum James H. Baker Albert Bourla Jack Clark Kate Crawford Christopher Donahue Nicholas N. Eberstadt Jane Fraser Thomas L. Friedman Kevin Harrington Rebeccah Heinrichs Mellody Hobson Alex Karp Stephen Kotkin Michael Kratsios Henry R. Kravis Robert Lighthizer John Micklethwait Satya Nadella Samuel Paparo Brian Schimpf Eric E. Schmidt Jason Smith Mustafa Suleyman Lawrence Summers Peter Thiel Fareed Zakaria
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