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APN has been supplied with the complete list - stamped "Confidential, Not For Publication" - of those who attended this year’s Bilderberg conference in Scotland. When asked by reporters what was going on at the 132-bed, �600-a-night Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire, staff would only say that the hotel was closed for "a private function." Yet by any reckoning these guests deserve a place on the A-list of global power-broking. Apart from David Rockefeller, Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman, N M Rothschild & Son, and Lord Carrington, they included: Leon Brittan, Vice President, European Commission; Javier Solana Madariaga, NATO Secretary General; Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Anatoli B Chubais, Russia, former First Vice Minister; George Robertson, Britain’s Secretary for Defence; US Envoy Richard Holbrooke; John Deutch, former Director-General, CIA; Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister, Finland; Franz Vranitsky, former Austrian Federal Chancellor; Kenneth Clarke, Britain’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer; William Hague, leader, UK Conservative Party; Mark Grossman, Assistant Secretary, US State Department; Max Kohnstamm, Senior Consultant, European Policy Centre; Lawrence H Summers, Deputy Secretary for International Affairs, US Treasury; George Papandreou, Greece, Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs. The highest echelons of international banking and finance were, as customary, heavily represented. |
There was James D Wolfeson, President, World Bank; Andrew Crockett, General Manager, Bank of International Settlements; Martin Taylor, chief executive, Barclays Bank; William J McDonough, president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; William R Rhodes, Vice Chairman, Citibank, N.A.; Stanley Fischer, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF; Otman Issing, Deutsche Bundesbank; Hilmar Kopper, chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank A.G.; Peter Sullivan, chairman, Goldman Sachs; Kjell Storvik, Governor, Bank of Norway; Gerhard Randa, chairman of Managing Board, Bank of Austria; Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Spain, vice chairman, Baanco de Santander; Eric Roll, Senior Adviser, SBC Warburg Dillon Read; Jacob Wallenberg, representing the fabulously rich Swedish family dynasty, their enterprises accounting for about 45 of the Swedish stock market. Other striking names included John P Brown, Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum; Paul Allaire, chairman, and G Richard Thoman, president, Xerox Corporation; Percy Barnevik, Sweden, chairman, ABB Asea Brown Boveri; Jurgen E Schrempp, chairman, Daimler-Benz A.G., Jessica Tuchman Matthews, president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Etienne Davignon, Belgium, executive chairman, Societe de Belgique, former vice-chairman, Commission of European Communities; Christopher Hogg, UK, chairman, Reuter Group; Anatole Kaletsky, Associate Editor, London Times. |
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