The Bilderberger meeting in Stockholm, June 12-15.
By Derimot-Knut Lindtner, Editor-June 19, 2025
The Bildenberger Group has had a meeting in Stockholm from 12-15 June this year at the Grand Hotel in the Swedish capital. Below is an agenda of global issues as well as a list of all participants.
From the set agenda you will find many key global issues today:
- Transatlantic relations
- Ukraine
- United States economy
- Europe
- Middle East
- The authoritarian axis
- Innovation and resilience in defense
- Artificial Intelligence, Deterrence, and National Security
- Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
- Geopolitics around energy and critical minerals
- Population decline and migration
What is the Bildenberger Group?
The Bilderberg Group – power without transparency
The Bilderberg Group (also known as the Bilderberg Meeting or the Bilderberg Conference) is a closed forum where leading figures from politics, business, academia, finance, defense, and the media meet to discuss global issues. The group was established in 1954 and is named after its first meeting place: Hotel de Bilderberg in Oosterbeek, Netherlands.
It goes without saying that one does not gather prominent political and economic leaders without a purpose. The purpose is, of course, to set guidelines for future policy – both nationally and globally. The meetings are closed to the public. The press is not allowed in.
No formal decisions are made, but the participants are undoubtedly influenced by what is said. No minutes are kept, and no one is allowed to quote what others have said. This is a form of exercising power – without responsibility.
This is contrary to the basic principles of a vibrant democracy, where everyone who participates in political processes must speak their mind and be accountable to the voters. Here, key decision-makers in a number of countries do not have to abide by the usual democratic rules of the game. Instead, they coordinate views and strategies – without the population knowing what is being discussed.
Is the West really democratic? When you look at meetings like this – and similar gatherings at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – the answer is no. We live in what can best be described as pseudo-democracies : democracies in form, but not in content. It is the power of money that rules – and the Bilderberg Group is one of their most important meeting places to coordinate their activities from year to year. The fact that the population is allowed to choose who will administer these activities in each individual country is called democracy.
(The Bilderberg Group members are also now members of the Freemasons worldwide.)
Knut Lindtner
Editor
Here is the participant list:
| Abrams, Stacey | (United States) | CEO, Sage Works Production |
| Albuquerque, Maria Luis | (INT) | European Commissioner Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union |
| Alcazar Benjumea, Diego del | (ESP) | CEO, IE University |
| Alverà, Marco | (ITA) | Co-Founder, zhero.net; CEO TES |
| Andersson, Magdalena | (SWE) | Leader, Social Democratic Party |
| Applebaum, Anne | (United States) | Staff Writer, The Atlantic |
| Attal, Gabriel | (FROM) | Former Prime Minister |
| Auchincloss, Murray | (CAN) | CEO, BP plc |
| Baker, James H. | (United States) | Former Director, Office of Net Assessment, Department of Defense |
| Barbizet, Patricia | (FROM) | Chair and CEO, Temaris & Associés SAS |
| Barroso, Jose Manuel | (PRT) | Chair International Advisors, Goldman Sachs International |
| Baudson, Valerie | (FROM) | CEO, Amundi S.A. |
| Beauty, Leonor | (PRT) | President, Champalimaud Foundation |
| Birol, Fatih | (INT) | Executive Director, International Energy Agency |
| Botin, Ana | (ESP) | Group Executive Chair, Banco Santander SA |
| Bourla, Albert | (United States) | Chair and CEO, Pfizer Inc. |
| Brende, Borge | (NOR) | President, World Economic Forum |
| Brzoska, Rafal | (POL) | CEO, InPost SA |
| Busch, Ebba | (SWE) | Minister for Energy, Business and Industry |
| Caine, Patrice | (FROM) | Chairman & CEO, Thales Group |
| Calviño, Nadia | (INT) | President, European Investment Bank |
| Castries, Henri de | (FROM) | President, Institut Montaigne |
| Chambers, Jack | (IRL) | Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Reform and Digitalisation |
| Champagne, Francois-Philippe | (CAN) | Minister of Finance and National Revenue |
| Clark, Jack | (United States) | Co-Founder & Head of Policy, Anthropic PBC |
| Crawford, Kate | (United States) | Professor and Senior Principal Researcher, USC and Microsoft Research |
| Donahue, Christopher | (United States) | Commander, US Army Europe and Africa |
| Donohoe, Paschal | (INT) | President, Eurogroup; Minister of Finance |
| Dopfner, Mathias | (DEU) | Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE |
| Eberstadt, Nicholas N. | (United States) | Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, AEI |
| Oak, Daniel | (SWE) | CEO, Spotify SA |
| Ekholm, Borje | (SWE) | CEO, Ericsson Group |
| Eriksen, Øyvind | (NOR) | President and CEO, Aker ASA |
| Feltri, Stefano | (ITA) | Journalist |
| Fentener van Vlissingen, Annemiek | (NLD) | Chair, SHV Holdings NV |
| Fraser, Jane | (United States) | CEO, Citigroup |
| Freeland, Chrystia | (CAN) | Minister of Transport and Internal Trade |
| Friedman, Thomas L. | (United States) | Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times |
| Gabuev, Alexander | (INT) | Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center |
| Hammer, Kristina | (AUT) | President, Salzburg Festival |
| Harrington, Kevin | (United States) | Senior Director for Strategic Planning, NSC |
| Hassabis, Demis | (UK) | Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind |
| Hedegaard, Connie | (DNK) | Chair, KR Foundation |
| Heinrichs, Rebeccah | (United States) | Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute |
| Heraty, Anne | (IRL) | Chair, Sherry Fitzgerald ana IBEC |
| Herlin, Jussi | (FINE) | Vice Chairman, KONE Corporation |
| Hernandez de Cos, Pablo | (ESP) | General Manager Elect, Bank for International Settlements |
| Hobson, Mellody | (United States) | Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments LLC |
| Hoekstra, Wopke | (INT) | European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth |
| Hunt, Jeremy | (UK) | Member of Parliament |
| Isla, Pablo | (ESP) | Vice-Chair, Nestlé SA |
| Johansson, Michael | (SWE) | President and CEO, Saab AB |
| Jonsson, Conni | (SWE) | Founder and Chair, EQT Group |
| Karp, Alex | (United States) | CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc. |
| Klöckner, Julia | (DEU) | President of the Bundestag |
| Kostrzewa, Wojciech | (POL) | President, Polish Business Roundtable |
| Kotkin, Stephen | (United States) | Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| Kratsios, Michael | (United States) | Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| Kravis, Henry R. | (United States) | Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chair, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. |
| Kudelski, André | (CHE) | Chair and CEO, Kudelski Group SA |
| Kuleba, Dmytro | (UKR) | Adjunct Professor, Sciences Po |
| Leeuwen, Geoffrey van | (INT) | Director Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO |
| Lemierre, Jean | (FROM) | Chair, BNP Paribas |
| Letta, Enrico | (ITA) | Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs |
| Leysen, Thomas | (BEL) | Chair, dsm-firmenich AG |
| Lighthizer, Robert | (United States) | Chair, Center for American Trade |
| Liikanen, Erkki | (FINE) | Chair, IFRS Foundation Trustees |
| Lundstedt, Martin | (SWE) | CEO, Volvo Group |
| Marin, Sanna | (FINE) | Strategic Counsellor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change |
| McGrath, Michael | (INT) | European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law |
| Mensch, Arthur | (FROM) | Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI |
| Micklethwait, John | (United States) | Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP |
| Minton Beddoes, Zanny | (UK) | Editor-in-Chief, The Economist |
| Mitsotakis, Kyriakos | (GRC) | Prime Minister |
| Monti, Mario | (ITA) | Senator for life |
| Nadella, Satya | (United States) | CEO, Microsoft Corporation |
| Netherlands, HM the King of the | (NLD) | |
| O’Leary, Michael | (IRL) | Group CEO, Ryanair Group |
| Ollongren, Kajsa | (NLD) | Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, GLOBSEC |
| Özyeğin, Murat | (TRIP) | Chair, Fiba Group |
| Papalexopoulos, Dimitri | (GRC) | Chair, TITAN SA |
| Paparo, Samuel | (United States) | Commander, US Indo-Pacific Command |
| Philippe, Edouard | (FROM) | Mayor, Le Havre |
| Pouyanné, Patrick | (FROM) | Chair and CEO, TotalEnergies SE |
| Prokopenko, Alexandra | (INT) | Fellow, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center |
| Rachman, Gideon | (UK) | Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times |
| Rappard, Rolly van | (NLD) | Co-Founder and Chair, CVC Capital Partners |
| Reiche, Katherina | (DEU) | Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy |
| Ringstad Vartdal, Birgitte | (NOR) | CEO, Statkraft AS |
| Roche, Nicolas | (FROM) | Secretary General, General Secretariat for Defense and National Security |
| Rutte, Mark | (INT) | Secretary General, NATO |
| Salvi, Diogo | (PRT) | Co-Founder and CEO, TIMWE |
| Sawers, John | (UK) | Executive Chair, Newbridge Advisory Ltd. |
| Scherf, Gundbert | (DEU) | Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Helsing GmbH |
| Schimpf, Brian | (United States) | Co-Founder & CEO, Anduril Industries |
| Schmidt, Eric E. | (United States) | Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc |
| Schmidt, Wolfgang | (DEU) | Former Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Head of the Chancellery |
| Šefčovič, Maroš | (INT) | European Commissioner Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency |
| Sewing, Christian | (DEU) | CEO, Deutsche Bank AG |
| Sikorski, Radoslaw | (POL) | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Simsek, Mehmet | (TRIP) | Minister of Finance |
| Smith, Jason | (United States) | Member of Congress |
| Stoltenberg, Jens | (NOR) | Minister of Finance |
| Streeting, Wes | (UK) | Secretary of State for Health and Social Care |
| Stubb, Alexander | (FINE) | President of the Republic |
| Suleyman, Mustafa | (United States) | CEO, Microsoft AI |
| Summers, Lawrence | (United States) | Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University |
| Thiel, Peter | (United States) | President, Thiel Capital LLC |
| Toulemon, Laurent | (FROM) | Senior Researcher, INED |
| Owl, Robert | (DNK) | Chair, AP Moller-Maersk A/S |
| Valentini, Valentino | (ITA) | Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy |
| Vassy, Luis | (FROM) | Director, Sciences Po |
| Verhoeven, Karel | (BEL) | Editor-in-Chief, De Standaard |
| Wallenberg, Jacob | (SWE) | Chair, Investor AB |
| Wallenberg, Marcus | (SWE) | Chair, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB |
| Neither di Mauro, Beatrice | (CHE) | President, Center for Economic Policy Research |
| Weel, David van | (NLD) | Minister of Justice and Security |
| Wilmes, Sophie | (INT) | Vice-President, European Parliament |
| Zakaria, Fareed | (United States) | Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS |
| Zeiler, Gerhard | (AUT) | President, Warner Bros. Discovery International |
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