The 2024 Bilderberg Conference was held between May 30–June 2, 2024 in Madrid, Spain at the Eurostars Suites Mirasierra hotel.[2][3] The 2024 meeting was the 70th edition of the event.[2] A Bilderberg Group press release stated that there were 131 participants from around 25 countries.[4]
| 2024 Bilderberg Conference 70th Bilderberg Meeting | |
|---|---|
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| Host country | Spain |
| Date | May 30–June 2, 2024 |
| Venue(s) | Eurostars Suites Mirasierra[1] |
| Cities | Madrid |
| Participants | c. 130 from 23 countries |
| Follows | 2023 Bilderberg Conference |
| Precedes | 2025 Bilderberg Conference |
| Website | https://bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2024/ |
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.[5][6][7] 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.[5]
Agenda
editThe key topics for discussion were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting.[8] 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
editA list of 131 participants was published on the Bilderberg website.[4] 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.[9] King Felipe VI of Spain was reported to have attended the meeting despite his name not being on the list.[10][11]
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Estonia
European Union (International)
- Nadia Calviño
- Paschal Donohoe
- Paolo Gentiloni
- Wopke Hoekstra
- Ylva Johansson
- Charles Michel
- Maroš Šefčovič
Finland
France
- Patricia Barbizet
- Valérie Baudson
- Henri de Castries
- Arthur Mensch
- Agnès Pannier-Runacher
- Édouard Philippe
- Patrick Pouyanné
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
NATO (International)
Netherlands
- Charlene de Carvalho
- Caroline de Gruyter
- Victor Halberstadt
- Tom-Jan Meeus
- Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
- Mark Rutte
Norway
Other (International)
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Spain
- 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
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- Murray Auchincloss
- Demis Hassabis
- Zanny Minton Beddoes
- Gideon Rachman
- Wael Sawan
- John Sawers
- Mustafa Suleyman
- Martin H. Wolf
United Nations (International)
United States
- 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
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ Yebra, Daniel (May 31, 2024). "Hermetismo absoluto en la cumbre Bilderberg que acoge Madrid con la participación de Albares y Cuerpo". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ^ a b Gilchrist, Karen (May 30, 2024). "A top secret meeting is kicking off in Madrid with the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Microsoft AI in attendance". CNBC. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ^ Wall, Martin (May 31, 2024). "Donohoe, Varadkar and Coveney to attend Bilderberg meeting in Madrid". The Irish Times. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ^ a b "Participants 2024". Bilderberg Meetings. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ^ a b Gilchrist, Karen (May 18, 2023). "A secretive annual meeting attended by the world's elite has A.I. top of the agenda". CNBC. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
- ^ Sommerlad, Joe (June 4, 2019). "Who are the secretive Bilderberg Group and are they really the New World Order?". The Independent. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
- ^ Kantor, Lukas (January 1, 2024). "Bilderbergers head EU, NATO, IMF and UN". Academia.edu. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ^ "Press release 2024". Bilderberg Meetings. Retrieved May 31, 2024.
- ^ Holehouse, Matthew (June 6, 2013). "Bilderberg Group? No conspiracy, just the most influential group in the world". The Telegraph. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
- ^ Skelton, Charlie (June 1, 2024). "War, AI and more war: the 2024 Bilderberg agenda is sure to set off alarm bells". the Guardian. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
- ^ "El Club Bilderberg celebra su 70 aniversario en Madrid: 10 españoles en la lista de 130 invitados". MARCA (in Spanish). May 31, 2024. Retrieved May 31, 2024.