Assorted politicians, monarchs, bankers, arms dealers, spooks, CEOs, media execs and lizard-people meet in Copenhagen today for the annual Bilderberg conference. Here is a selected guest list:
Marcus Agius – Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group; former Group Chairman, Barclays
Keith Alexander – Former Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Former Director, National Security Agency
Roger Altman – Executive Chairman, Evercore
Edward Balls – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ben van Beurden – CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
Philip Breedlove – Four star US general; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Benoit Coeuré – Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
Sherard Cowper-Coles – Senior Adviser to the Group Chairman and Group CEO, HSBC Holdings plc
Mathias Döpfner – CEO, Axel Springer SE
Robert Dudley- Group Chief Executive, BP plc
Thomas Enders – CEO, Airbus Group
Douglas Flint – Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
Justine Greening – Secretary of State for International Development
Kenneth Jacobs – Chairman and CEO, Lazard
Henry Kissinger – Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Christine Lagarde – Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
Peter Mandelson – Chairman, Global Counsel LLP
John Micklethwait – Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands
George Osborne – George Chancellor of the Exchequer
John Sawers – Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Eric Schmidt – Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
H.M. the Queen of Spain
Martin Wolf – Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
Robert Zoellick – Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group
What could the head of MI6, the former director of the NSA, the boss of Google and Justine Greening be talking about?
