Seventeen Years of Bilderbergers including the 2000 Invitees and Their Elite Affiliations*
By Eric Samuelson, J.D.
Name Associations
Dean Gooderham Acheson BB/CFR
Theodore C. Achilles BB/CFR
Josef Ackermann BB
Umberto Agnelli BB
Terence Airey BB
Keith B. Alexander BB
Paul Arthur Allaire BB/CFR/TC
Graham Tillety Allison, Jr. BB/CFR/TC
Roger Altman BB
Joaquim Ferreira Amaral BB
Tage Andersen BB
Robert Orville Anderson BB/CFR
Dwayne Orville Andreas BB/CFR/TC
Hannes Androsch BB
Charles C. Arliotis BB
Michael Hayden Armacost BB/CFR/TC
Jacob A. Ashberg BB
Anders Aslund BB
F.D. Aster BB
George Wildman Ball BB/CFR
Francisco Pinto Balsemao BB
Walworth Barbour BB
Percy Barnevik BB
Robert Leroy Bartley BB/CFR/TC
Robert Leroy Bartley BB/CFR/TL
Wilfrid S. Baumgartner BB
Evan Bayh BB
Queen Beatrix BB
Frederick Sessions Beebe BB/CFR
David E. Bell BB/CFR
Elliott Vance Bell BB/CFR
George W. Bell BB
Douglas J. Bennet, Jr. BB
Frederic M. Bennett BB
Jack F. Bennett BB
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. BB/CFR
Fritz Berg BB
Samuel Richard ("Sandy") Berger BB/CFR JZC. Fred Bergsten BB/CFR/TC
Adolph A. Berle, Jr. BB
Franco Bernabe BB
Ben S. Bernanke BB
Prince Bernard BB
Richard Bernstein BB
Christoph Bertram BB
Selahattin Beyazit BB
Carl Bildt BB
Barry Bingham BB
M. Nuri Birgi BB
Lajos Bkokros BB
Conrad Black BB/TC
Eugene Robert Black BB/CFR
Robert D. Blackwill BB
Tony Blair BB
Robert Blum BB
Richard Bolling BB
Michael Jay Boskin BB
Ana Patricia Botin BB
Walter E. Boveri BB
Robert Richardson Bowie BB/CFR/TC
Charles G. Boyd BB
John Brademas BB/CFR/RS/TC
Nicholas Frederick Brady BB/CFR
Karl Brandt BB
Kingman Brewster, Jr. BB/CFR
Edward W. Brooke BB/CFR
Irving Brown BB/CFR
John Browne BB
David K. E. Bruce BB/CFR
John H. Bryan BB/TC
Zbigniew Brzezinski BB/CFR/TC
William Frank Buckley, Jr. BB/S&B 1950/CFR
McGeorge Bundy BB/CFR/S&B 1940
W. Randolph Burgess BB/CFR
Louis Wellington Cabot BB/CFR
Miriam Camps BB
King Juan Carlos BB
Costa Carras BB
Jaime Urquijo Carvajal BB
Peter Rupert Carrington BB/TC
Frank T. Cary BB
Clifford Philip Case BB/CFR
Victor F.W. Cavendish-Bentinck BB
James Chace BB/CFR
John Hubbard Chafee BB/S&B 1947/TC
Hakon Christianson BB
Walter Ciser BB
Walter Lee Cisler BB
Gian G. Cittadini Cesi BB
W. Edmund Clark BB
Kenneth Clarke BB
Kristin Clement BB
Harlan B. Cleveland BB/CFR/RS
Harold Van B. Cleveland BB/CFR
Hillary Clinton BB
William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton BB/CFR/RS/TC
David Lee Cole BB
John S. Coleman BB
Emelio Gabriel Collado BB
Bertrand Collomb BB
Pierre Commin BB
Karl T. Compton BB
Donald C. Cook BB/CFR
B.D. Cooke BB
Richard Newell Cooper BB/CFR/TC
Lammont du Pont Copeland BB/CFR
Jon Corazine BB
Andrew Wellington Cordier BB/CFR
E. Gerald Corrigan BB/CFR/TC
Ramon C. Cortines BB
Jon Stevens Corzine BB
Gardner Cowles BB/CFR
Joao Cravinho BB
Devon Cross BB/CFR
Charles H. Dallara BB/CFR
Kenneth W. Dam BB/CFR
Tom A. Daschle BB
George A. David BB
Viscount Étienne Davignon BB
Lynn E. Davis BB/CFR/TC
John A.D. de Chastelain BB
Thierry de Montbrial BB
David de Pury BB
Edmond de Rothschild BB
Lodewijk J.R. de Vink BB
Arthur Hobson Dean BB/CFR21
Richard Dearlove BB
Aage Deleuran BB
Frederick Lewis Deming BB/CFR
John M. Deutch BB/TC
Thomas Edmund Dewey BB/CFR
John Diebold BB/CFR
C. Douglas Dillon BB/CFR
Christopher J. Dodd BB/CFR
Joseph N. Dodge BB
Thomas E. Donilon BB/CFR
Hedley Williams Donovan BB/CFR/RS/TC
William C. Dudley BB
Willem F. Duisenberg BB
Allen Welsh Dulles BB/CFR
James S. Duncan BB
John Edwards (Senator) BB
Theodore Lyman Eliot, Jr. BB
Gazi Ercel BB
Sedat Ergin BB
Fritz Erler BB
Mike Espy BB
Diane Feinstein BB/J/TC
Martin Stuart Feldstein BB/CFR/TC
John Henry Ferguson BB/CFR
Thomas Knight Finletter BB/CFR
Murray H. Finley BB
Stanley Fischer BB/TC
Ralph Edward Flanders BB
James J. Florio BB
Thomas Stephen Foley BB/CFR/TC
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. BB/CFR
Henry Ford II BB
Lynn Forester BB
William Chapman Foster BB/CFR
Alistair Frame BB
Max Frankel BB/CFR J
Felix Frankfurter BB/CFR J
Oliver Franks BB
Donald Frazer BB
Charles W. Freeman, Jr. BB
Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen BB/CFR
Paolo Fresco BB/TC
Stephen James Friedman BB/CFR/TC
Thomas L. Friedman BB/CFR/TC
James William Fulbright BB
James William Fulbright BB/RS
David Frum BB
Hauge Gabriel BB/CFR
Orit Gadiesh BB
Hugh T.N. Gaitskell BB
Cornelius E. Gallagher BB
John Rogers Galvin BB
Dean De La Garde BB
Jeane de la Garde BB
Robert L. Gardner BB/CFR
Timothy Geithner BB
David Richmond Gergen BB/CFR/TC
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. BB/CFR/TC
Louis Gestner BB
Charles Getchell BB
Francesco Giavazzi BB
Harry D. Gideonse BB/CFR
Herbert Giersch BB
Paul Gigot BB
Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric BB/CFR
Agnelli Giovanni BB
Peter C. Godsoe BB
Clinton S. Golden BB
Andrew Jackson Goodpaster BB/CFR
Abraham Lincoln Gordon BB
Lincoln Gordon BB/CFR
Joseph T. Gorman BB/CFR/TC
William T. Gossett BB
Donald Edward Graham BB
Katherine Graham BB/CFR/TC J
Frank H. G. Grave BB
Maurice ("Hank") R. Greenberg BB/CFR/TCAnthony G.S. Griffin BB
Eduardo Marcal Grilo BB
Marc Grossman BB
Alfred M. Gruenther BB/CFR
Henry Anatole Grunwald BB/CFR
Colin Gubbins BB
John J. Gunther BB/CFR
Sten Gustafsson BB
Lawrence R. Hafstad BB
Chuck Hagel BB
Jens Christian Hague BB
Victor Halberstadt BB
Geir Hallgrimsson BB
Lee Herbert Hamilton BB/TC
Fred R. Harris BB
Joseph Close Harsch BB/CFR
Arthur A. Hartman BB/CFR
Gabriel Hauge BB/CFR
Jens Hauge BB
Brooks Hays BB/CFR
Brooks Hays BB
Denis W. Healey BB
Tom C. Hedelius BB
Arnold D.P. Heeney BB
Per Egil Hegge BB
Michael A. Heilperin BB/CFR
Henry John Heinz II BB/CFR/S&B 1931
Alfred Herrhausen BB
Peter A. Herrndorf BB
Christian Archibald Herter BB/CFR
Theodore Martin Hesberg BB/CFR/TC
Theodore Martin Hesburgh BB/CFR/TC
William Alexander Hewitt BB/CFR/TC
Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper BB
Jim Hoagland BB
Harold K. Hochschild BB/CFR
Leif Hoegh BB
Westye Hoegh BB
Paul Gray Hoffman BB/CFR
Stanley Hoffman BB/CFR
James Fulton Hoge, Jr. BB/CFR/TC
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke BB/CFR/TC
Chet Holifield BB
Donald Frederick Horning BB
Robert W. Huber BB
Thomas Lowe Hughes BB/CFR
Robert Edward Hunter BB/CFR
Jan Huyghebaert BB
Hans lgler BB
Jaakko lloniemi BB
Donald J. Irwin BB
Wolfgang Ischinger BB
Otmar Issing BB
C.D. Jackson BB
Henry M. Jackson BB
William Harding Jackson BB
Peter Jankowitsch BB
Daniel E. Janssen BB
Jacob K. Javits BB/CFR/J
Nelson Dean Jay BB/CFR
Peter Charles Jennings BB
J. Bennett Johnson BB
James Arthur Johnson BB
Joseph Esrey Johnson BB/CFR
James Jones BB
Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. BB/CFR/TC
Peter Robert Kahn BB/CFR J
Nikolai Kamov BB
Peter R. Kann BB
C. Frits Karsten BB
Milton Katz BB/CFR
Carl Kaysen BB/CFR
George F. Keenan BB
George F. Kennan BB/CFR
David Michael Kennedy BB
Jefferson Ward Kenner BB
John Kerr BB
Kurt Kiesinger BB
Robert M. Kimmitt BB
Suna Kirac BB
Henry Alfred Kissinger BB/CFR/TC J
Andrew Knight BB
Antonie T. Knoppers BB/CFR
Max Kohnstamm BB
Hilmar Kopper BB
Max Kothbauer BB
Pieter Korteweg BB
Joseph Kraft BB/CFR
Yannos Kranidiotis BB
Alex Krauer BB
Henry R. Kravis BB/CFR
Marie-Josee Kravis BB/TC
Wiliam Kristol BB
William Kristol BB
Peter F. Krogh BB
Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere BB
Leon J.G. Lambert BB
Thomas William Lamont BB/CFR21
Eric Le Boucher BB
Erkki Leekanen BB
Jan Leschly BB
Walter James Levy BB/CFR
Andre Levy-Lang BB
William W. Lewis BB
Franklin Anthony Lindsay BB/CFR
Lawrence Litchfield, Jr. BB
Edward Littlejohn BB
Imbriani Longo BB
Charles Edwin Lord BB/S&B 1949
Winston Bao Lord BB/S&B 1959/TC
Isador Lubin BB/CFR
Henry Robinson Luce BB/CFR/S&B 1920
Bjorn Lundvall BB
Franz J. Lutolf BB
Donald S. Macdonald BB
Roy MacLaren BB/TC
Bruce K. MacLaury BB
Margaret O. MacMillan BB
William S. Maillard BB
Peter Mandelson BB
Edwin McCammon Martin, Jr. BB
Edward S. Mason BB/CFR
Jessica (Tuchman) Mathews BB/CFR
Charles McCormick Mathias, Jr. BB/CFR
Jack Foust Matlock, Jr. BB
Jessica Tuchman Matthews BB
Reginald Maudling BB
Charles William Maynes BB/CFR
John Jay McCloy BB/CFR
David J. McConald BB
James McCormack, Jr. BB/CFR
Paul Winston McCracken BB/CFR/TC
David J. McDonald BB
William J. McDonough BB/CFR
Gale W. McGee BB/CFR
George C. McGee BB/CFR
George Crews McGhee BB/CFR
Ralph E. McGill BB
Richard A. McGinn BB
Donald F. McHenry BB/CFR
Frank McKenna BB
David McLaughlin BB
Robert Strange McNamara BB/CFR/TC
John T. McNaughton BB/CFR
Vasco Mello BB
Alex W. Menne BB
Gerald A. Mestallet BB
Gerard A. Mestrallet BB
Johannes Meynen BB
R. John Mickletwait BB
Charles D. Miller BB
George J. Mitchell BB
Ihor Mityukov BB
Dominique Moisi BB
Walter Fritz Mondale BB/CFR/TC
A. S. Mike Monroney BB
Mario Monti BB
F. Bradford Morse BB
Philip E. Mosley BB
Bill D. Moyers BB/CFR
Charles W. Muller BB
Robert Daniel Murphy BB/CFR
Egil Myklebust BB
Francisco Murteira Nabo BB
Frank C. Nash BB
Matthias Nass BB
Alfred C. Neal BB/CFR
George Nebolsine BB
Queen of the Netherlands BB
John Newhouse BB/CFR
Paul Henry Nitze BB/CFR
Nils Norlund BB
Lauris Norstad BB/CFR
Sam Nunn BB
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. BB/CFR/RS/TC
Barak Hussein Obama BB
David Oddsson BB
Andrzej Olechowski BB
Jorma Ollila BB
Conrad J. Oort BB
Frederic Oudea BB
Tommaso Padoa-Shioppa BB
John M. Page, Jr. BB
Cola G. Parker BB
Israel Helphand Parvus BB
David Patraeus BB
Morehead Patterson BB/S&B 1920
Henry M. Paulson, Jr. BB
Frederick B. Payne BB/CFR
Lester Pearson BB
Aurelio Peccei BB
Arno A. Penzias BB
Werner A. Perger BB
George William Perkins II BB
James Alfred Perkins BB/CFR
Richard N. Perle, BB
William James Perry BB/TC
Howard C. Petersen BB/CFR
Rudolph A. Peterson BB
Thomas Reeve Pickering BB/CFR
Gerald Piel BB/CFR
Emanuel Rubin Piore BB
Norman Podhoretz BB/CFR
Karl Otto Pohl BB
Jonathan Porritt BB
Colin L. Powell BB/CFR
John S. Pesmazoglu BB
Clyde V. Prestowitz BB
Don K. Price BB/CFR
Joel McFee Pritchard BB
J. Robert S. Prichard BB
Romano Prodi BB
Mario Monti BB
David de Pury BB
Alessandro Profumo BB
William Bauer Quandt BB
Isidor Isaaac Rabi BB/CFR
Gerhard Randa BB
Steven L. Rattner BB/CFR
John Shed Reed BB/CFR
James Barrett Reston BB/CFR
J.H. Retinger BB
Henry Reuss BB/CFR
Walter Philip Reuther BB
William R. Rhodes BB/CFR
Condoleezza Rice BB
Bill Richardson BB
Rozanne Lejeanne Ridgway BB/CFR/TC
Donald W. Riegle BB
Paul Rijkens BB
Henry Lithgow Roberts BB/CFR
Charles Wesley Robinson BB/CFR/TC
David Rockefeller BB/CFR/TC
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller BB/CFR
Sharon Percy Rockefeller BB
Inciarte Matias Rodriquez BB
Mauricio Rojas BB
Eric Roll of Ipsden BB
Robert Vincent Roosa BB/CFR/RS
Bjorn Rosengren BB
Dennis Ross BB
Eugene Victor Rostow BB/CFR
Renato Ruggiero BB
Donald Henry Rumsfeld BB/CFR
Dean Rusk BB/CFR/RS
John T. Ryan, Jr. BB/CFR
John Sainsbury BB
Ricardo E.S. Salgado BB
Charles E. Saltzman BB/CFR
Indira Samarasekera BB
Jorge Sampaio BB
Paul Anthony Samuelson BB
Nicolau Santos BB
Pasquale Saraceno BB
Robert A. Scalapino BB/CFR
Rudolf Scharping BB
Ad J. Scheepbouwer BB
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer BB
Jurgen E. Schrempp BB
Richard Schenz BB
Eric Schmidt BB
Adolph William Schmidt BB/CFR
Helmut Schmidt BB
William F. Schnitzler BB
Rudolf Scholten BB
Klaus Schwab BB
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer BB
Hugh Scott BB
Brent Scowcraft BB/CFR/TC
Kathleen Sebelius BB
Toger Seidenfaden BB
Ernest-Antoine Seilliere BB
John S. R. Shad BB
Robert B. Shapiro BB
Jack Sheinkman BB/CFR
Lillia Shevtsova BB
Marshall D. Shulman BB/CFR
George R. Shultz BB
Artur Santos Silva BB
Stefano Silvestri BB
Thomas W. Simons, Jr. BB
Howard Page Smith BB
John Smith BB
Walter ("Bettle") Bedell Smith BBJean C. Snoy et d'Oppuers BB
Nancy E. Soderberg BB/CFR
Pedro Mira Solbes BB
Theo Sommer BB
Helmut Sonnenfeldt BB/CFR/TC
George Soros BB/CFR
Joseph P. Spang, Jr. BB
John Sparkman BB
Charles Merville Spofford BB/CFR/S&B 1924
Lesley R. Stahl BB
J. L. S. Steele BB
James B. Steinberg BB
George Stephanopoulos BB/CFR/RS
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III BB/CFR
Dirk U. Stikker BB
Shepard Stone BB/CFR
Arthur Hays Sulzberger BB/CFR/J
Cyrus L. Sulzberger BB/CFR
Lawrence H. Summers BB/CFR
Gyorgy Suranyi BB
Peter D. Sutherland BB
Dick Taverne BB
Arthur R. Taylor BB
J. Martin Taylor BB
Terkel M. Terkelsen BB
Margaret Thatcher BB
Peter Thiel BB
G. Richard Thoman BB/CFR
John L. Thorton BB
Otto Grieg Tidemand BB
Dmitri V. Trenin BB
Jean-Claude Trichet BB
Alexander J. Trotman BB
Pierre Trudeau BB
John Wills Tuthill BB
Laura D'Andrea Tyson BB/CFR/TC
Victor H. Umbricht BB
Paul van Zeeland BB
Jeroen van der Veer BB
Matti Vanhala BB
Pentti Vartia BB
Daniel L. Vasella BB
Thanos M. Veremis BB
Raymond Vernon BB/CFR
Alice Victor BB
Vittorio Valetta BB
Ezra F. Vogel BB
John W. Vogt BB
Paul Adolph Volker BB/CFR/TC
Otto Wolf von Amerongen BB
John M. Voreys BB
Franz Vranitzky BB
Lodewijk J. Waal BB
Jacob Wallenberg BB
Marcus Wallenberg BB
Eric M. Warburg BB/CFR
Sidney James Weinberg BB
Stanley A. Weiss BB
Nout Wellink BB
Niels Werring BB
John Cunningham Whitehead BB/CFR/TC
Christine Todd Whitman BB
Marina von Neumann Whitman BB
Thomas Grey Wicker BB
Krister Wickman BB
Siegmund Widmer BB
Brayton Wilbur, Jr. BB/CFR
Francis O. Wilcox BB/CFR
Frazar B. Wilde BB/CFR
Lawrence Douglas Wilder BB
Alexander Wiley BB
Nils Wilhjelm BB
Joseph H. Williams BB
Lynn Russell Williams BB
Michael Wilson BB/CFR
Grant F. Winthrop BB
Hans-Jurgen Wischnewski BB
Frank G. Wisner II BB/CFR
James D. Wofensohn BB/CFR
Albert Wohlstetter BB/CFR
Martin Wolf BB
Otto Wolff von Amerongen BB
James David Wolfensohn BB/CFR
Paul D. Wolfowitz BB/CFR/TC
Adrian D. Wooldridge BB
Manfred Worner BB
Patrick Wright BB
Walter Bigelow Wriston BB/CFR
Casimir A. Yost BB/CFR
Erkut Yucaoglu BB
Fareed Zakaria BB
Paolo Zannoni BB
Michael Zantousky BB
James D. Zellerbach BB
Norbert Zimmermann BB
Robert B. Zoellick BB/CFR/TC
Minos Zombanakis BB
Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman BB/CFR J
*References include Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr., Who's Who of The Elite (December 1995). The years covered by Ross (from the Spotlight) were: 1955, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1991, 1994 and 1995. This list also includes 1996, 1997 and 1998 BB lists obtained from the Web. The 1998 CFR Annual Report was used for some of the "CFR" designations. Non-U.S. BB are primarily from 1999 WorldNetDaily list. Additions, biographical information or corrections welcomed.
Bilderberg Participants, 2009
Bilderberg Participants, 2004
Bilderberg structure and membership to 2002
Bilderberg participants from 1988 to 2000
Bilderberg Participants, 2011
(excluding 1990 but including 1982) indexed by country and affiliation. Prepared by Grattan Healy, Energy Adviser to the Green Party in the European Parliament.
Key to Abbreviations:
BB=Bilderberger CFR=Council on Foreign Relations J=Jewish RS=Rhodes Scholar S&B=Skulland Bones (Yale)TC=Trilaterial Commission Z=Zionist (tentative and incomplete)
