The
         former CEO of Kissinger Associates, David Rothkopf , wrote  Superclass in which he said the world was ruled by Thirty Families
         and  their 6,000 Minions. For several years I have written brief bios of the  men and women attending Bilderberg thinking
         that insights into the  Minions of the multi-billionaire families they represent will give us a  clue as to what they plan
         to do to us in the near future.
 
 The key topics for discussion this year include:
 
         - Populism in Europe
 - The inequality challenge
 - The
         future of work
 - Artificial intelligence
 - The US before midterms
 - Free trade
 - US world leadership
 - Russia
 - Quantum computing
 - Saudi Arabia and Iran
 - The “post-truth”
         world
 - Current events
 
 CHAIRMAN
         Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman of Institut Montaigne.  Former Chairman and CEO, AXA; President of Institut Montaigne.
         AXA,the  insurance giant is the 9th largest company in the world. An American  unit of AXA was involved in the Wall Street
         fleeces Main Street scandal  which was investigated by the New York state Attorney General. Member of  the Steering Committee.
         The Institut Montaigne is a French tank funded  by Bankers A former AXA chairman founded it in 2000. It is an AXA  operation.
         They favor social cohesion (meaning they don’t want the  rabble to revolt.) They have studied in depth race riots in
         the Paris  suburbs but have since brought in millions of unvetted refugees. Either  not very bright or are working to destroy
         Europe.) Castries was replaced  as CEO of AXA on Sept 1, 2016.
 
 Achleitner, Paul
         M. (DEU), Chairman Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG; Treasurer, Foundation Bilderberg Meetings. Deutsche
         Bank has long been a favorite of Bilderberg. They helped fix interest  rates and gold and silver prices. Remember Gordon Brown’s
         disastrous  sale of UK gold? It was designed to drive down the price of gold and to  save Deutsche Bank. It was contrary to
         British interests to sell gold  for below market prices. He went to Harvard and worked for Goldman  Sachs. He is on the Board
         at Bayer and Daimler (Mercedes.) He was the  second Jewish CEO of Deutsche Bank in recent years. Bayer is taking over  Monsanto.
         Anyone ready for GMO Round Up Ready babies?
 
 Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA
         Consulting Group.  Member  of the Steering Committee. His wife is Katherine de Rothschild. Her  father is Evelyn
         de Rothschild who was a co-founder of Bilderberg. Agius  began his career at the Rothschild associated Lazard bank.  PA
         consulting sold half of its shares to the American Carlyle Group.  The Carlyle Group is tied to CIA and Sate Dept personnel
         from the Bush  administration. They are major arms merchants.
 
 Alesina, Alberto (ITA),
         Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Former  Chairman Economics Department at Harvard.
         Has written lots of articles  and books of interest. His academic mentor was Jeffrey Sachs. Bloomberg  once said he was the
         favorite of fiscal hawks. He has written about  stabilization in high inflation countries. He taught at Tel Aviv  University. First
         time participant.
 
 Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chairman, Evercore. He
         used to be with Lehman Brothers and Blackstone Group. He was a key  supporter of Hillary Clinton. He was an adviser on the
         GM bankruptcy  collecting $46 million in fees for Evercore. He is a member of the  Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Democratic
         party and Clinton  insider. Speaking of infrastructure ripoffs, he helps run the Hamilton  Project which is focused on rebuilding
         America’s infrastructure. They  are linked to Brookings. Since they are liberals, the corporate press  will not call
         them thieves if they steal a trillion dollars.
 
 Amorim, Paula (PRT), Chairman,
         Américo Amorim Group. She  is the daughter of the man who was the wealthiest man in Portugal. She  seems
         to be in charge of his business interest. She divorced her first  husband and married a man with two Jewish last names. First
         time  participant.
 
 Anglade, Dominique (CAN), Deputy Premier of Quebec; Minister
         of Economy, Science and Innovation. First time participant. She is a member of the Liberal party.
 
         Applebaum, Anne (POL), Columnist, Washington Post; Professor of Practice, London School of Economics. Director
         of the Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute. This institute works for  advancing reforms proposed by Bilderberg and other
         billionaires. She is a  fixture at Bilderberg.
 
 Azoulay, Audrey (INT), Director-General,
         UNESCO. She is a  French Socialist and was Minister of Culture under Macron. She is the  daughter of a Jewish family
         from Morocco who grew up in Left Wing  politics. Her father is an advisor to Mohammad VI King of Morocco. First  time
         participant.
 
 Baker, James H. (USA), Director, Office of Net Assessment, Office
         of the Secretary of Defense. He is  responsible for providing the Secretary of Defense and other senior
         leaders with independent assessments of the prospects of the military  capabilities of the United States relative to other
         actors, as well as  the political, economic and regional implications of those assessments.  ONA focuses most on strategies
         and opportunities that improve the U.S.  position in military-economic-political competition. ONA also studies  the security
         environment and provides a source of deep, long term future  thinking for the Department of Defense. Former colonel. First
         time  attendee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations which means  he is a Globalist. Invited for his expert
         knowledge on threat  assessments. America’s abilities to fight a major war and win are highly  over exaggerated.
 
         Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), President, Temaris & Associés. She just  stepped
         down but is still on the board of Artemis. She is also the head  of Christie’s auction house. Her husband is an investment
         banker at  Barclays. She is board member and vice president at Gucci owner Kering  She has a strong history in French business.
         Recently elevated to the  Steering Committee.
 
 Barroso, José M. Durão
         (PRT), Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Former President, European Commission. Former  EU president. He
         used to be a frequent object of Nigel Farage’s wrath  at the EU parliament. Farage used to name Barroso as one of a
         long list  of EU commissioners who were either former Maoists and Communists or  were convicted felons or under indictment
         for felonies. He was a member  of the underground Maoist MRPP . I am as concerned about his  relationship with Goldman Sachs
         as his college days in a Maoist action  group.
 
 Beerli, Christine (CHE), Former
         Vice-President, International Committee of the Red Cross. Her  husband has a Jewish last name. First time participant.
         Maybe she was  invited because the   Red Cross has expert knowledge of refugees.
 
 Berx,
         Cathy (BEL), Governor, Province of Antwerp. Married to an expert on European law. She is a Christian Democrat
         politician and is Flemish. First time.
 
 Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Royal Dutch
         Shell plc. Shell is  owned in large part by the Dutch royal family and the Rothschilds. They  are two of the 30 ruling
         families mentioned by Rothkopf in Superclass.  He is one of their 6,000 Minions. He worked for 10 years in  Houston. First
         time participant.
 
 Blanquer, Jean-Michel (FRA), Minister of National Education,
         Youth and Community Life. He  used to be a Director of Latin American studies.  Bilderberg needs help  explaining
         things to Millennials. Maybe that is why he was invited.  Socialist. First time participant.
 
 Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Group Executive Chairman, Banco Santander. Formerly  head of Santander
         UK. This is an old drug money laundering bank with  ties to Latin America and the Rothschilds. Her mother is of Irish  descent
         (O’Shea). She worked for J P Morgan for 8 years. She is on the  powerful Bilderberg Steering Committee.
 
         Bouverot, Anne (FRA), Board Member; Former CEO, Morpho. Also  a board member of GSM, a European
         trade group of Mobile phone  companies. Morpho is an electronic security firm. Invited because she is  an expert. First time.
         Worked in Mexico and US.
 
 Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and
         CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA. Member  of the Steering Committee. Norsk is the fourth largest integrated  electrical generation
         and aluminum producer in the world.
 
 Brende, Børge (INT), President, World
         Economic Forum. Brende  served as chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development  2003–2004. In
         2005, he took up the appointment of international vice  chairman of the China Council for the International Cooperation on
          Environment and Development (advisory board to the State Council). He  has been managing director of the World Economic Forum.
         He is a member  of the Conservative party but he would never make it in the Republican  party in America. Returning Participant.
         First time was in 2016.
 
 Brennan, Eamonn (IRL), Director General, Eurocontrol.
          This organisation is developing a Europe-wide air traffic management system. First time participant.
 
         Brnabic, Ana (SRB), Prime Minister. She is gay. She  is a graduate of a public policy
         course at Hull University in  Yorkshire. Serbia is up for EU membership which she supports. First time  participant. Probably
         want her to take some Muslim refugees. Not likely  given Serbia’s recent conflicts with the Muslims of Kosovo and their
          history of conflict with the Ottoman Empire.
 
 Burns, William J. (USA), President,
         Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Returnin Participant.  He replaced Jessica Tuchman Matthews who
         was on the Steering Committee  (he is not) as President of Carnegie. She retired. He is a professional  diplomat and
         was asked first by john Kerry and then President Obama to  delay his retirement.
 
 
 Burwell, Sylvia M. (USA), President, American University. She  worked for the Clinton and Obama admins.
         She worked with Robert Rubin,  Erskine Bowles, the Gates Foundation, WalMart (a Jewish company), She  was HHS Secretary  and
         Director of the Office of Management and Budget.  She is an expert on US budgets which is something the Pentagon and  Bilderberg
         need to understand before starting another war. First time  Participant.
 
 Caracciolo,
         Lucio (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, Limes.  He directs the Italian geopolitical magazine
         Limes which he founded in 1993 and the Eurasian Review of Heartland Geopolitics founded in 2000. He is considered one of the leading Italian experts in geopolitics. He
         has participated numerous times as a member of Bilderberg.
 
 Carney, Mark J.
         (GBR), Governor, Bank of England. Returning  Participant. Worked for 13 years with Goldman Sachs. Was Bank of
         Canada  Governor and is responsible as anyone for their over priced real estate  market. Currently at B of E. He has been
         in charge of the Bank for  International Settlements. That means is is a primary Minion of the  Ruling class.
 
         Cattaneo, Elena (ITA), Director, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, University of Milan. She
          is there for her expertise on stem cells which is of concern for  elderly billionaires. She is a pharmacologist. She is a
         Senator for Life  in Italy which explains how the incoming populist PM was delayed by  their Senate.
 
         Cazeneuve, Bernard (FRA), Partner, August Debouzy; Former Prime Minister. Another budget expert.
         Has other expertise. Well connected obviously in French politics. First time Participant.
 
 Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, El País. His  company owns radio and
         TV stations and is in publishing as well. They  are owned by the Phoenix Group, a British insurance company. He was a   Member
         of the Steering Committee when he attended the last few  meetings. But as of 2017 he has been removed from the Steering  Committee.
         Some members of Bilderberg are more equal than others. Ditto  for the Steering Committee. Some just recruit new members. Others
         set  policy.  But then there is this: He has been named in the Panama Papers  scandal. And the Rothschilds do have an
         office in Reno Nevada that does  nothing but use that style of financial secrecy to hide their money.
 
         Champagne, François-Philippe (CAN), Minister of International Trade.  Speaks English,
         French and Italian. First time Participant. Lived in Europe. Liberal party member.
 
 Cohen,
         Jared (USA), Founder and CEO, Jigsaw at Alphabet Inc. Former  Deputy Director, CIA Another curious case. He
         was a first time attendee  and new member of the Bilderberg Steering committee in 2017. (No longer  on Steering Committee.)
         He was appointed by Obama and served under John  Brennan who was in charge of the Get Trump movement inside the DC  Swamp..
         But check out Cohen’s previous job at the Treasury Dept: He  served as the Treasury Department’s Assistant Secretary
         for Terrorist  Financing. The US has been funding Al Qaeda and ISIS so this job and his  work with Brennan plus the fact that
         he is started out on the Steering  Committee is a major reveal. What to do about populists is a listed  Bilderberg topic of
         concern. He is a lawyer and worked in white collar  criminal defense until 1999. He worked for Treasury in 1999 and is the
          author of Title III of the Patriot Act which dealt with money  laundering. He left government service in January 2001. The
         Patriot Act  was sitting there just waiting for 911 so the Bush admin could get it  passed in October of that year.
 
         Colao, Vittorio (ITA), CEO, Vodafone Group. He is stepping  down as CEO. He started out working
         for Morgan Stanley and then for  McKinsey Consultants, both American firms. He lives in England. Notice  these Participants
         are not really representative of the nations they  come from. New Participant.
 
 Cook,
         Charles (USA), Political Analyst, The Cook Political Report. The  NY Times said he was “one of the
         best political handicappers in the  nation”. Looks like first time Participant but I only checked the lists  for the
         past 4 years. Bilderberg needs an expert on American politics  and populism. He is a Democrat. Worked as a pollster.
 
         Dagdeviren, Canan (TUR), Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab.  She is a serious expert on making
         electronic components to adapt to  human bodies. She is a First time Participant. Billionaires are  interested in pacemakers
         but also in putting chips in the  non-billionaire class.
 
 Donohoe, Paschal (IRL),
         Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform. He  worked for 6 years with Procter and Gamble in the UK
         and then for a  British alcohol company in Ireland. He is a member of Fine Gael  political party and has expertise on budgets.
         He is a First time  Participant.
 
 Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chairman
         and CEO, Axel Springer SE. Returning  member. He is also head of Federation of German Newspaper Publishers
          (BDZV). His wife has a Jewish maiden name. Her father was in senior  management at Deutsche Bank which is a Jewish run.
 
         Ecker, Andrea (AUT), Secretary General, Office Federal President of Austria. She  is an assistant
         to Alexander Van der Bellen who was the Green candidate  against the populists who eventually won the parliament. She
         is pro-EU  and accepts the refugees flooding Europe. She is a new Participant.
 
 Elkann,
         John (ITA), Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.  He  owns part of the Rothschild Economist magazine. He is
         the grandson and  heir of Gianni Agnelli. Fiat owns Lancia, Ferrari, Maserati and  Chrysler. Elkann is Jewish and was born
         in New York. He also runs the  Agnelli family investment firm Exor which owns Juventus F.C., Cushman  & Wakefield and
         SGS. Henry Kissinger, Carla Bruni, and Ell McPherson  attended his wedding. He has moved his Exor investments out of Italy.
          He moved their headquarters to the Netherlands. Italy is suffering and  could bring down the EU. He is a member of the Steering
         Committee. He is  a member of one of the Thirty ruling families.
 
 Émié,
         Bernard (FRA), Director General, Ministry of the Armed Forces. He is a career diplomat. Makes sense to Macron
         to put a diplomat in charge of the military.  He is a new Participant.
 
 Enders,
         Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus SE. Airbus is important to  Bilderberg. Forbes called Airbus an industrial symbol
         of European  unity. EU might soon be reduced to symbols if not ashes. This is  apparent to people understand the implications
         of having more Unpayable  Debts than at any time in world history. They are meeting in Italy. That  nation could bring down
         the EU, the entire global economy and the US  government as well as maybe 100 or more governments worldwide. He is a
          member of the Steering Committee.
 
 Fallows, James (USA), Writer and Journalist.
         He is a liberal  and started as a speech writer for President Jimmy Carter. He has been  running a series articles against
         Trump. Journalists are often invited  to Bilderberg. Not listed in the past few years as attending.
 
         Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA. He  is a former Vice-Chair of
         the Federal Reserve Bank. He was a Bush  appointee. TIAA is a teacher’s pension. American pensions are toast  thanks
         to Bilderberg criminality. Last year he was appointed to the  board of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. He is married
         to a former  SEC commissioner who was also a Bush appointee. Returning member.
 
 Ferguson,
         Niall (USA), Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He  has moved from Harvard
         to Stanford. He was born in Glasgow and  graduated from Oxford. He is an official biographer of Henry Kissinger  and has written
         about the Rothschild family . He represents the latter  at Bilderberg. He is an economic historian and one of his areas of
          expertise is Hyperinflation. He has said the euro is doomed and can only  be saved by more centralization (and less democracy).
         We will all  become experts in Hyperinflation at the rate at which the  Bilderbergers  are printing money. They are intentionally
         creating more debts so  taxpayers will become permanent debt slaves. Returning member.
 
 Fischer, Stanley (USA), Former Vice-Chairman, Federal Reserve; Former Governor, Bank of Israel. He
          was born in Rhodesia. He taught economics to Ben Bernanke and Mario  Draghi. He is well thought of by Central Bankers. He
         favors charging  bank depositors for losses made by Bankers. He is Bilderberg’s economics  expert.
 
         Gilvary, Brian (GBR), Group CFO, BP plc. He has a Ph.D and  is a mathematical modeler. He
         has been CFO for BP since 2012. BP is a  major oil firm. He is a First time Participant.
 
         Goldstein, Rebecca (USA), Visiting Professor, New York University. She  is one of 10 recipients
         of the humanities medal which was bestowed by  President Barack Obama during a Sept. 10 ceremony in the East Room of  the
         White House. Why in the world did they invite her? Maybe they think  she can sell Globalism to trendy idiots. She is
          a First time  Participant.
 
 Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor
         “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV. Editor-in-Chief  and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV. She is a native
         speaker of Italian  and German. She was critical of Berlusconi, quit her state TV job and  became a Euro MP. She returned
         to TV. She is fluent in English and has  worked as a war correspondent. She became a Member of the Steering  Committee in
         2016. She is older now but she is very sexy and well liked  at Bilderberg. The Steering Committee recommends new members.
         She is in  media and is close to Italian politicians, bankers, businessmen and  celebrities.
 
 Hajdarowicz, Greg (POL), Founder and President, Gremi International Sarl. Former  journalist.
         His company started in Pharmaceuticals. He partnered with  other firms to do consulting, acquisitions and mergers. He has
         bought a  daily and weekly newspaper. He is a new Participant.
 
 Halberstadt,
         Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Chairman Foundation Bilderberg Meetings. Former Honorary
         Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings.
 
 Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder
         and CEO, DeepMind, Google. He  is an expert in AI. He was a world class game developer and chess  champion before
         he earned a PhD in  Cognitive Neuroscience. Returning  participant. Bilderberg is interested very much in his work. And
         Google  is big at Bilderberg. He is a new Participant.
 
 Hedegaard, Connie (DNK),
         Chair, KR Foundation; Former European Commissioner.  She  worked as a journalist for many years. She is
         also a Danish politician  who was EU Commissioner for Climate Change serving under Bilderberg  Steering committee member Barroso.
         She is a member of the Danish  Conservative party.  She had been a minister for the Environment in   Denmark.
         The KR Foundation (http://krfnd.org/)  They want to phase out coal. They say they want sustainable energy and  sustainable finance. Not sure what sustainable
         finance means to a  Bilderberger. They do want taxpayers to pay a couple trillion dollars in  taxes and fees to them so they
         will save us from Climate Change. How  about the Wigner Effect? Look it up. It says that nuclear power plants  should be expected
         to enter into a final stage of discomposition after  30 year of service. News Flash: The US has 99 nuclear power plants with
          an average age of 38 years which is already 8 years beyond the Use By  Date. That is not good!! Her Foundation has a program
         to teach us  commoners how to learn to love and accept poverty.
 
 Helgesen, Vidar
         (NOR), Ambassador for the Ocean, He was  minister for Climate and was chief of Staff to Norway’s PM. Member
         of  what Norwegians might think is a conservative party. He is  a First time  Participant.
 
         Herlin, Antti (FIN), Chairman, KONE Corporation. He is the richest man in Finland. They need
         powerful people to spread their Globalist agenda. He is a new Participant.
 
 Hickenlooper,
         John (USA), Governor of Colorado. He is a  Democrat. He is  a First time Participant. He thinks
         he can run for  President. Colorado is a state whose politics were changed my massive  immigration. They need his insight
         and his pull in US politics. He is a  new Participant.
 
 Hobson, Mellody (USA),
         President, Ariel Investments LLC.  She is the  current Chair of the Board of Directors of
         DreamWorks Animation. She is  black. Third meeting. Ariel is a Chicago investment firm that manages  over $10 billion
         in assets. She married George Lucas and had a child  delivered by a surrogate birth mother.  New member of the Bilderberg
          Steering Committee.
 
 Hodgson, Christine (GBR), Chairman, Capgemini UK plc. They
          are management technology consultants. They specialize in outsourcing.  Why give a job to an Englishman or an American when
         someone in  Bangladesh can do it cheaper?Bilderberg will love her. She is a Director  at Standard Chartered bank. She is
          a First time Participant.
 
 Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder, LinkedIn; Partner,
         Greylock Partners.    Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn. Returning participant.  Bilderberg is drawing
         in High Tech firms. Greylock is one of the older  Venture Capital firms. He is a returning Participant.
 
         Horowitz, Michael C. (USA), Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. He
         is author of the book The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics,  which
         “examines how the financial and organizational challenges of  adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the
         international  balance of power.”  The book won the 2010 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award given by the Mershon  Center for
         International Security Studies, as well as the 2011 Best Book  Award from the International Security Studies section of the
          International Studies Association and the 2011 Harold D. Lasswell Prize,  Society of Policy Scientists. I guess Bilderberg
         figured out America is  destined to lose the next war because they stole so much money that the  country is a shell of what
         it was. He is  a First time Participant.
 
 Hwang, Tim (USA), Director,
         Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative.  He is   a First time Participant. Obviously they
         want to learn more about AI  and robots replacing unreliable workers and soldiers.
 
 Ischinger,
         Wolfgang (INT), Chairman, Munich Security Conference. Not  his first meeting. Missed 2016. This is an annual
         conference that  brings together CEOs and heads of state and other decision makers to  discuss security. That conference attracts
         a lot of very powerful  people. I think the Uber Rich are worried what happens to them when the  working people of Europe
         and North America have to give up eating  regular meals.
 
 Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA),
         Chairman and CEO, Lazard. Lazard  describes themselves as Financial advisors and asset managers. No  mention
         of their connections to the Rothschilds. Member of the Steering  Committee.
 
 Kaag,
         Sigrid (NLD), Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation. She  worked for Shell as an analyst. She
         is an Arab linguist. She worked for  the UN in Lebanon and for the chemical weapons control group for Syria.  Syria has been
         falsely accused of using chemical weapons against  civilians so NATO could do bombing missions to defend their hired thugs
          at ISIS and Al Qaeda. She is married to a former senior PLO official who  has Jewish settlers “illegal colonists.”
         She is  a First time  Participant. I just tried to access an article cited in the comments but  access was denied by
         local host. That means the people of Israel must  know who we are.
 
 Karp, Alex (USA),
         CEO, Palantir Technologies.  Palantir  spied on computer users for the CIA and NSA. Co-founder is Peter Thiel
          also a member of the Steering Committee. Returning Participant.
 
 Kissinger,
         Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.  Serial war criminal, He seems to be slowing
         down. No longer on the Steering Committee.
 
 Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), CEO, NEOM.  NEOM
         is a fanciful $500  billion project to build a mega city in the Saudi desert that will  connect to Egypt via a bridge over
         the Gulf of Aqaba. Former Chairman  and CEO, Arconic He has a spotty business career. He had to quit Siemens  over corruption
         charges. He was CEO of ALCOA and then Arconic. He used  to be a member of of the board of directors of Citigroup and Bayer.
         For  some reason he is popular with the Bankers at Bilderberg. He is a member  of the Steering Committee.
 
         Knot, Klaas H.W. (NLD), President, De Nederlandsche Bank. He  was appointed by the crown.
         Klaas Knot has been President of DNB since 1  July 2011. By virtue of his position, he holds seats on the Governing  Council
         and General Council of the European Central Bank, as well as on  the Financial Stability Board, besides being a Governor of
         the  International Monetary Fund. Also on board of the BIS. Returning member  though he did not make the 2016 meeting.  He
         has been appointed honorary  professor of Economics of Central Banking at the Faculty of Economics  and Business of the University
         of Groningen, where he will regularly  give guest lectures. That sounds like it could be an exciting lecture if  we were
         allowed to ask questions and he was required to answer. Sir,  what is the difference between a non-interest bearing and an
         interest  bearing currency? I doubt you could get past question 2 before being  arrested. Returning Participant.
 
         Koç, Ömer M. (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.. He was the  only son of
         Turkey’s wealthiest man. He graduated from Johns Hopkins in  the USA. His company is the largest in Turkey and partners
         with many  foreign corporations making light bulbs and cars. He is a member of the  New York Yacht Club. He hired Peter Sutherland
         a former Head of  Bilderberg Europe. He is a member of the Steering Committee. Turkey is  undergoing severe economic
         problems as is every country with interest  bearing currencies and mountains of Unpayable Debts.
 
 Köcher, Renate (DEU), Managing Director, Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research. She
          is a pollster but writes columns as well. Her polls deliberately under  reported support for populists. Bilderberg is worried
         about  populism. She is  a First time Participant.
 
 Kotkin, Stephen (USA),
         Professor in History and International Affairs, Princeton University.  Stephen  Kotkin writes
         about power and the paradoxes of authoritarian regimes  across the globe, how they are often simultaneously powerful and 
         brittle, stable and unstable, long-lasting yet susceptible to  precipitous collapse. Outside Princeton, he has worked for
         several  foundations on higher education reform, mostly in the Communist  countries, and serves as a consultant for investors
         in emerging markets.  His current projects include a history of the world, as seen from  Stalin’s desk. Sounds like
         a good match for Bilderberg. He has expertise  to share on the brittle nature of authoritarian regimes. Let’s hope 
         Bilderberg is as brittle as the members fear. Returning member.
 
 Kragic, Danica (SWE),
         Professor, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH.  She is a professor of robotics. Lots of AI and
         robotics experts at Bilderberg 2018. She is a new Participant.
 
 Kravis, Henry
         R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR. When  they bought R J Reynolds, Catherine Austin Fitts couldn’t
         understand how  KKR could pay so much. She later learned that Reynolds sold cigarettes  to terrorists and drug dealers so
         they could launder money. KKR takse  over companies and steal their pensions. Returning member. His wife is a  member of  the
         Bilderberg Steering Committee.
 
 Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow,
         Hudson Institute; President, American Friends of Bilderberg. President,  American Friends of Bilderberg; Senior
         Fellow, Hudson Institute(founded  by Herman Kahn). It is funded by Eli Lily. She is from Montreal,  Quebec, and is the third
         wife of financier Henry Kravis. She is an  economist and serves on the board of major corporations. Returning  member of the
         Steering Committee. Head of US Bilderberg.
 
 Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman
         and CEO, Kudelski Group. Member  of the Steering Committee. He serves on many corporate boards. He wrote  this:
         Together with incredible opportunities come new risks, as the  virtual and real world become one in the fourth industrial
         revolution.  Read more here:
 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-dark-side-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution
 The asymmetry of risks that we are starting to face reinforces the  need for an integrated and
         holistic view of security issues, and a  strong synchronization between business and political action. (So what  does that
         mean to a Bilderberg member?)
 
 Lepomäki, Elina (FIN), MP, National Coalition
         Party.  She is   a First time Participant. She is a member of her parliament’s Finance  Committee.
         She is a conservative? and a Globalist. Bilderberg invites  people with influence back home to spread the word. She has graduate
          degrees in technology and economics.
 
 Leyen, Ursula von der (DEU), Minister of Defence.
          Returning participant.  She is close to Angela Merkel which is not a  good position these days.
 
         Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group. This is a large  European bank based in Brussels
         which has expanded along with the EU  into eastern Europe. Returning member of the Steering Committee.
 
         Makan, Divesh (USA), CEO, ICONIQ Capital.  He also worked at  The Goldman Sachs Group,
         Inc., and Morgan Stanley. Another Silicon  Valley firm. He is a Hindu from South Africa. Returning participant..
 
         Massolo, Giampiero (ITA), Chairman, Fincantieri Spa.; President, ISPI.   That company is owned
         by the government and builds ships. He is a  diplomat. Go figure. They teach ship building in the Poli Sci Dept at  major
         universities. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the  Aspen Institute. He is  a First time Participant.
 
         Mazzucato, Mariana (ITA), Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College
         London.  She gave a Ted Talk in which she said the government has often made  more innovations than the individual. She
         is married to an Italian film  producer and has dual US-Italian citizenship. Italy is going under and  they invite Italians
         with one foot in another country. Supposed expert  on innovation. Has worked with the EU, Brazil and the Labour party of 
         the UK. She is  a First time Participant.
 
 Mead, Walter Russell (USA),
         Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute. He writes the Global View column for the Wall Street Journal. He is
         a First time Participant.
 
 Michel, Charles (BEL), Prime Minister. Returning participant.
 
         Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP. He  used to be Editor-in-Chief, The
         Economist which is owned by the  Rothschilds. The Economist urged Iraq to attack Iran 6 months before the  war started. Returning
         member. Returning member but did not attend in  2016. It seems Bilderberg likes to change participants each year. They  are
         trying to maximize their influence without getting too many people  in the room. Otherwise they would become another Davos.
 
         Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist,  a Rothschild publication. New
         to Steering Committee.
 
 Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC), President, New Democracy
         Party.  Son  of a former PM. Used to work for Chase Bank before the merger. Lived a  lot of his life in France
         and the US. Returning participant.
 
 Mota, Isabel (PRT), President, Calouste Gulbenkian
         Foundation.   She is a non-executive member of the board of Santander-Totta Bank. She  is also Chairman of the Partex
         Oil and Gas (Holdings) Corporation  Supervisory Committee. In the political field, Isabel Mota has served as  Secretary
         of State for Planning and Regional Development in the 11th  and 12th Constitutional Governments, with responsibility for the
          negotiations with the European Union over Structural and Cohesion Funds  for Portugal. That Foundation is cultural but has
         a major influence in  Portugal. She is a First time Participant.
 
 Moyo, Dambisa
         F. (USA), Global Economist and Author. She is  an attractive woman from Africa. She has written 4 NY Times best
          sellers. She writes about the failure of aid in Africa and about China’s  drive for resources. (Africans know a lot
         about that.)  She is a First  time Participant. Invited for her expertise.
 
 Mundie,
         Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie & Associates. Mundie  advocates that individuals be licensed before being
         allowed to use the  Internet. Used to be part of Microsoft leadership. He was a scientific  adviser to Obama. Member of Steering
         Committee.
 
 Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD),   His family
         owns a  large part of Royal Dutch Shell along with the Queen of England and the  Rothschilds. Forbes magazine did a puff piece
         and said his family only  had 300 million dollars. This is not credible for a family that ruled  for 200 years. His mother
         Queen Beatrix attended in the past. Returning  participant.
 
 Neven, Hartmut
         (USA), Director of Engineering, Google Inc. He  is from Google which is a major player. But he is also head
         of Quantum  Computing AI at Google. Bilderberg is all about replacing those pesky  workers and soldiers with robots and AI.
         After all, the Georgia  Guidestones says we must reduce the world’s population to 500 million  which means the 7 billion
         most disobedient people must go.  New participant.
 
 Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author
         and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal.  Might  be there to talk about Trump. She is media but has deep connections
          within the Republican party. And she has more insights into Trump than  other writers. She said he is ‘the spark and
         not the fire.’
 
 Oettinger, Günther H. (INT), Commissioner for Budget
         & Human Resources, European Commission. Worked with Juncker and Barroso. Formerly headed the EU Digital Commission. New participant.
 
         O’Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair D.A.C.  Must have liked  him at his first
         meeting in 2015 because he was elevated to the  Steering Committee in 2017. This guy is out spoken and funny. O’Leary
          jokingly described the airline’s planned business class travel  experience as featuring “whores and rum”.
 
         O’Neill, Onora (GBR), Emeritus Honorary Professor in Philosophy, University of Cambridge. She
          was made a lifetime peer by the Labour government. She is a well  acclaimed philosophy professor. Not sure why they invited
         her. New participant.
 
 Osborne, George (GBR), Editor, London
         Evening Standard. He  is a former  Chancellor of the Exchequer. First class idiot in  economics.  He and
         Cameron came up with this idiotic Help to Buy scheme  purloined from Alan Greenspan. It got them past election day. The UK
         has  more Unpayable Debts to cancel than the US. The next Depression will  hit them harder than the US. Returning participant.
 
         Özkan, Behlül (TUR), Associate Professor in International Relations, Marmara University. New participant. He
          is an expert on politics and diplomacy from Turkey. That nation is  undergoing a major upheaval and has a crashing economy.
         They need his  help.
 
 Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Company
         S.A. Fourth year  . Member of the Steering Committee. Titan cement is a large  international company which
         is expanding into the US and eastern Europe.  He also appeared at Davos and likes to talk in public.
 
         Parolin, H.E. Pietro (VAT), Cardinal and Secretary of State. First participant from the Vatican
         that I can remember. Maybe he was invited because the Pope is a committed Globalist.
 
 Patino,
         Bruno (FRA), Chief Content Officer, Arte France TV.  New participant. He runs media and they invite some
         they can trust.
 
 Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute. This
          is a Think Tank owned by KKR which takes over companies and steal their  pensions. Through R J Reynolds tobacco they launder
         money for drug  dealers and spies. Returning member. I am surprised they invited him  back. But he is not the only one with
         a dodgy past at Bilderberg. Maybe  not so surprising. His boss is head of Bilderberg USA. And he is a  military expert.
 
         Pichette, Patrick (CAN), General Partner, iNovia Capital. New participant. He was the
         CFO at Google. He is now a Venture capitalist. Not much of a Canadian is he?
 
 Pouyanné,
         Patrick (FRA), Chairman and CEO, Total S.A. Total is the 4th largest oil company in the world which is why he
         was invited. New participant.
 
 Pring, Benjamin (USA), Co-Founder and
         Managing Director, Center for the Future of Work. The  name of the center is deceptive. Their main web page says
         every move we  make is made known (even our location) is made known to those we trust.  I do not trust the NSA and the US
         government. Seems to be a big theme  at Bilderberg 2018. New participant.
 
 Rankka,
         Maria (SWE), CEO, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.  New participant.  Stanford grad. She advocated Global
         Cities for Sweden. Does not sound  like a real Swede. Typical Bilderberg. Will help them when she returns  to Sweden.
 
         Ratas, Jüri (EST), Prime Minister. New participant. Like the Serbian PM he was invited
         to help Bilderberg sell their agenda.
 
 Rendi-Wagner, Pamela (AUT), MP (SPÖ);
         Former Minister of Health. She  is a doctor and trained in London. The SPO is the Austrian Social  Democrat party.
         They are pro-EU and love millions of refugees flooding  into Europe. New participant.
 
 Rivera Díaz, Albert (ESP), President, Ciudadanos Party. Maybe  Bilderberg is trying to use a
         little finesse to prevent the break up of  Spain. His party does oppose independence for Catalonia. He uses the  phrase “Catalonia
         is my homeland, Spain is my country and Europe is our  future” to outline his party’s ideology. He represented
         them in the  Parliament. Catalonia is seething with resentment against Madrid and the  EU. But they do have a lot of migrants
         who will resist independence. He  is young and good looking. He is a former swimmer. He studied in the US  and in Finland.
         He founded the Ciudadanos Party. He is a lawyer. His  party has settled down as Center Left and has left the rabble rousing
         to  Podemos party. Their name translates as ‘we can.’ On 9 May 2016,  Podemos formed the electoral alliance Unidos
         Podemos with United Left,  Equo and minor left-wing parties. Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal pose  problems for Bilderberg.
         Diaz probably figures that Spain needs  northern Europe to pay the way for the South as the southeners have no  money.  Socialists
         temporarily rule but the opposition wants snap  elections. Returning participant.
 
 Rossi,
         Salvatore (ITA), Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Italy. He is a technician. Italy is in trouble. They need his
         expertise. New participant.
 
 Rubesa, Baiba A. (LVA), CEO, RB Rail AS. Chair
         of Baltic rail, an important regional concern. New participant. Born in Canada.
 
 Rubin, Robert E. (USA), Co-Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Treasury Secretary.  He
          was head of Citibank’s private bank which launders drug money. In 1999  Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers
         (Samuelson) and Arthur  Levitt told Brooksley Born of the CFTC that she could not regulate  Credit Default Swaps which were
         faux insurance. They went unregulated  and did not require the seller to set aside money to pay claims. All  sales income
         could be paid out in bonuses allowing the taxpayer to foot  the bill when it came due as it did in AIG. American taxpayers
         according  to Obama will have to pay hundreds of trillions of dollars in CDS after  the euro bonds collapse. All four of those
         men are Jewish. No concern  to them that a few billion people at some future date will starve to  death. Returning member.
 
         Rudd, Amber (GBR), MP; Former Secretary of State, Home Department. She  was forced to resign
         over a deportation targets memo. She was Secretary  for Climate Change. No such thing as human caused Global  Warming. New participant.
 
         Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister. He is a liberal and is in  coalition with Labor. In 2009,
         Rutte stated that Holocaust denial  should no longer be illegal. Returning member.
 
 Sabia,
         Michael (CAN), President and CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. He  earned his
         graduate degrees from Yale University. His wife, Hilary  Pearson, is the granddaughter of former Prime Minister Lester Pearson.
          In 2016, he was appointed as a Officer of the Order of Canada. First  meeting for him. He is a billionaire regarded as a
         savior in Montreal  where he is building a light rail system. Another man from a small  country who is keeping a struggling
         nation united. Have not heard much  from Quebec separatists of late. Returning member.
 
 Sadjadpour, Karim (USA), Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He  is an Iranian
         and consults at high levels giving expert advice on  Middle East affairs. Obvious why they need him. New participant.
 
         Sáenz de Santamaría, Soraya (ESP), Deputy Prime Minister. She  was in the Rajoy
         government. They are hoping for snap elections to  replace the Socialists. She was put in charge of Catalonia after the  locals
         decided to secede from Spain. Her country is in turmoil. She used  to be beautiful. She is a lawyer. New participant.
 
         Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners.   He was Chief, Secret
         Intelligence Service (MI6). He was a professional  diplomat being neither a spy nor a warrior. Has first hand knowledge of
          Iran. First meeting in 2015. Joined Steering committee in 2016. They  like him.
 
 Schadlow,
         Nadia (USA), Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy.  She  is a senior program officer in the
         International Security and Foreign  Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation. She has published  articles about national
         security in the Wall Street Journal,  ForeignPolicy.com, The American Interest, Parameters, War on the Rocks,  and elsewhere.
         She has a PhD from Johns Hopkins University’s School of  Advanced International Studies. – She wrote this: Success
         in war  ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia  Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate
         a new political  order are not separate from war. They are instead an essential component  of war and victory. Returning
         member.
  
 Schneider-Ammann, Johann N. (CHE), Federal Councillor. He
          was President of Switzerland. He is an engineer. He is a member of the  Free Democrat party. The Free Democratic Party
         or Radical Democratic  Party. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the Liberal Party of Switzerland  to form FDP The Liberals.
         It was put under pressure by the Swiss  People’s Party. That latter party is the most anti-immigrant party in  Switzerland. Returning
         member. The current government has stated that  Glyphosate is OK.
 
 Scholten, Rudolf
         (AUT), President, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue. He  is a Social Democrat. They lost control
         of Austria. He was head of the  Austrian Central Bank. The Great Depression did not get going until the  Rothschild owned
         Credit Anstalt bank of Vienna collapsed on May 11,  1931. It had too many eastern European bad debts. This man is not a  professional
         banker. He is a member of the Bilderberg Steering  Committee.
 
 Sikorski, Radoslaw
         (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland. He  made uncomplimentary
         comments about the US in a bugged conversation. He  was in charge of the Oxford Debate club. He was a member of the  Bullingdon
         group, a very despicable bunch. David Cameron was a member.  He worked at AEI while in America. They are pro-Globalist and
         supposedly  conservative group. Returning participant.  He is a new member of the  Bilderberg Steering Committee.
 
         Simsek, Mehmet (TUR), Deputy Prime Minister. Returning participant.  A big change in
         the Turkish delegation. He was born an ethnic Kurd. He  worked for Merrill Lynch in London and UBS in New York. He also
         has  British citizenship. He is no friend of the Kurdish people.
 
 Skartveit, Hanne
         (NOR), Political Editor, Verdens Gang. Another journalist invited to promote Bilderberg. New participant.
 
         Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO He is  definitely there to talk about Iran,
         Russia and Syria. Returning  participant. He skipped 2016. He was twice PM of Norway. In 2011,  Stoltenberg received
         the United Nations (UN) Champion of Global Change  Award in New York City. That is a black mark in my book.
 
         Summers, Lawrence H. (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University. Major
          league sleaze ball. He lost a billion dollars after being told not to  make a stupid CDS bet in the market. In 1999
         Robert Rubin, Alan  Greenspan, Larry Summers (Samuelson) and Arthur Levitt told Brooksley  Born of the CFTC that she could
         not regulate Credit Default Swaps which  were faux insurance. They were unregulated and did not require the  seller to set
         aside money to pay claims. All sales income could be paid  out in bonuses allowing the taxpayer to foot the bill when it came
         due  as it did in AIG. American taxpayers according to Obama will have to pay  hundreds of trillions of dollars in CDS after
         the euro bonds collapse.  All four of those men are Jewish. No concern to them that a billion  people at some future date
         will starve to death. He is a returning  member.
 
 Thiel, Peter (USA), President,
         Thiel Capital. He is bringing  in the younger crowd of high tech billionaires the CIA and NSA will  need to end
         anonymity on the Internet and then close down free speech.  It should be noted that he is not an engineer. He is a lawyer
         and  Stanford graduate. He worked as a derivatives trader and runs a Hedge  Fund. He owned 10.2% of Facebook pre IPO. Thiel
         is a founder of PayPal  which shuts down service to those who practice free speech on the  Internet. He was an early investor
         in Facebook which legally should  never had been offered as an IPO at anything above a dollar a share.  PayPal has been linked
         by John Cruz to money laundering. He is a  Libertarian. He defended Trump during the elections. He said: “Everyone 
         says Trump is going to change everything way too much,” says the famed  venture capitalist, contrarian and member of
         the Trump transition team.  “Well, maybe Trump is going to change everything way too little. That  seems like the much
         more plausible risk to me.” He is a member of the  Bilderberg Steering Committee.
 
 Topsøe, Jakob Haldor (DNK), Chairman, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S. Returning   participant.
         He is a Banker. Lots of Bankers at Bilderberg. He has  previously been Head of Equities at ABN AMRO Bank in Denmark.
 
         Turpin, Matthew (USA), Director for China, National Security Council.  New participant.
          He co-ordinates policy on China for several agencies. He is inside the  Trump admin. Bilderberg needs inside knowledge of
         the US policy to  China.
 
 Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group,
         Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation. He  is chairman of an insurance company and a bank holding company. He is
         a  Leftist. Returning participant. He also favors a guaranteed income  policy. Lots of luck with that. The markets will
         crash before anything  like that happens.
 
 Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chairman,
         Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB. He  is a member of the famous Wallenberg family which was Jewish at one  time.
         He is a Director of several banks and of Coca-Cola. He is a member  of the Steering Committee.
 
 Woods, Ngaire (GBR), Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. She  opposed Brexit.
         Her husband is a Mideast expert. She was born in New  Zealand. Her husband is an American. She does not represent English
          people. New participant.
 
 Yetkin, Murat (TUR), Editor-in-chief, Hürriyet
         Daily News. New participant. He is another media invitee. Turkey and most of Europe is in turmoil.
 
         Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Turner International. He is the president of an international
         media company. New participant.
 
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