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BILDERBERG MEETINGS

SINTRA

JUNE 3^RD-6^TH 1999

NOT FOR QUOTATION
 

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Introduction

The forty-seventh Bilderberg Meeting was held at the Caesar Park Hotel Penha Longa, Sintra, Portugal, from June 3^rd-6^th 1999. There were 111 participants from 24 countries. The participants represented government, diplomacy, politics, business, law, education, journalism and institutes specializing in national and international studies. All participants spoke in a personal capacity, not as representatives of their national governments or employers. As is usual at Bilderberg Meetings, in order to permit frank and open discussion, no public reporting of the conference took place.

This booklet is an account of the 1999 Bilderberg Meeting and is distributed only to participants of this and past conferences and to prospective participants of future conferences. It represents a summary of the panellists' opening remarks for each session, and of the comments and interventions in the subsequent discussion.

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Participants

HONORARY CHAIRMAN

• Belgium Etienne Davignon Chairman, Société Générale de Belgique

HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL

• Netherlands Victor Halberstadt Professor of Economics, Leiden University

PARTICIPANTS

• Italy Umberto Agnelli Chairman, IFIL-Finanziaraia di Partecipazioni

• Spain Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma President of the Spanish Senate

• United States of America Paul A. Allaire Chairman, Xerox Corporation

• Portugal Joaquim F. do Amaral Member of Parliament

• Sweden Anders Åslund Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Portugal Francisco Pinto Balsemão Professor of Communication Science, New University, Lisbon; Chairman, IMPRESA

• Sweden Percy Barnevik Chairman, Investor

• United States of America Evan Bayh Senator (Democrat, Indiana)

• Italy Franco Bernabè Managing Director and CEO, Telecom Italia
  Sweden Carl Bildt Member of Parliament

• Canada Conrad M. Black Chairman, Telegraph Group

• United States of America Charles G. Boyd Executive Director, National Security Study Group

• Canada John A.D. de Chastelain Chairman, Independent International Commission on Decommissioning

• Great Britain Kenneth Clarke Member of Parliament

• Norway Kristin Clemet Deputy Director General, Confederation of Business and Industry

• France Bertrand Collomb Chairman and CEO, Lafarge

• United States of America Jon S. Corzine Retired Senior Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.

• Portugal João Cardona G. Cravinho Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Territorial Administration

• Greece George A. David Chairman of the Board, Hellenic Bottling Company

• United States of America Christopher J. Dodd Senator (Democrat, Connecticut)

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• United States of America Thomas E. Donilon Attorney-at-Law, O'Melveney & Meyers

• Turkey Gazi Erçel Governor, Central Bank of Turkey

• Turkey Sedat Ergin Ankara Bureau Chief, Hürriyet

• United States of America Martin S. Feldstein President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research

• International Stanley Fischer First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
  Italy Paolo Fresco Chairman, Fiat

• Italy Francesco Giavazzi Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan

• Canada Peter Godsoe C. Chairman and CEO, Bank of Nova Scotia

• United States of America Donald E. Graham Publisher, The Washington Post

• Netherlands Frank H.G. de Grave Minister of Defence

• Portugal Eduardo C. Marçal Grilo Minister of Education

• United States of America Chuck Hagel Senator (Republican, Nebraska)

• Sweden Tom C. Hedelius Chairman, Svenska Handelsbanken

• Norway Per Egil Hegge Editor, Aftenposten

• Canada Peter A. Herrndorf Former Chairman and CEO, TVOntario; Senior Visiting Fellow, University of Toronto

• United States of America Jim Hoagland Associate Editor, The Washington Post

• Norway Westye Höegh Chairman of the Board, Leif Höegh & Co.; Former President, Norwegian Shipowners' Association

• United States of America Richard C. Holbrooke Ambassador to the UN designate

• Belgium Jan Huyghebaert Chairman, Almanij N.V.

• International Otmar Issing Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

• United States of America Vernon E. Jordan Jr. Senior Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (Attorneys-at-Law)

• Bulgaria Nikolai Kamov Member of Parliament

• Turkey Suna Kiraç Vice-Chairman of the Board, Koç Holding

• United States of America Henry A. Kissinger Chairman, Kissinger Associates

• Germany Hilmar Kopper Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank

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• Greece Yannos Kranidiotis Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs

• United States of America Marie-Josée Kravis Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

• United States of America Jan Leschly CEO, SmithKline Beecham

• International Erkki Liikanen Member of the European Commission

• Canada Roy MacLaren High Commissioner for Canada in Britain

• Canada Margaret O. MacMillan Editor, International Journal

• Great Britain Peter Mandelson Member of Parliament

• United States of America Jessica T. Mathews President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• United States of America William J. McDonough President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• United States of America Richard A. McGinn Chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies

• Portugal Vasco de Mello Vice Chairman and CEO, Grupo José de Mello

• Ukraine Ihor Mityukov Minister of Finance

• France Dominique Moïsi Deputy Director, IFRI

• International Mario Monti Member of the European Commission

• Portugal Francisco Murteira Nabo President and CEO, Portugal Telecom

• Germany Matthias Nass Deputy Editor, Die Zeit

• Netherlands Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands

• Iceland David Oddsson Prime Minister

• Poland Andrzej Olechowski Chairman, Central Europe Trust

• Finland Jorma Ollila Chairman of the Board and CEO, Nokia Corporation

• International Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

• Germany Werner A. Perger Political Correspondent, Die Zeit

• Great Britain Jonathon Porritt Programme Director, Forum for the Future

• Italy Alessandro Profumo CEO, Credito Italiano

• Switzerland David de Pury Chairman, de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Co.

• Austria Gerhard Randa CEO and Chairman, Bank Austria

• United States of America Steven Rattner Deputy Chief Executive, Lazard Freres & Co.

• United States of America Bill Richardson Secretary of Energy

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• United States of America David Rockefeller Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee

• Spain Matías Rodriguez lnciarte Executive Vice Chairman, BSCH

• Sweden Mauricio Rojas Associate Professor of Economic History, Lund University; Director of Timbro's Centre for Welfare Reform

• Great Britain Eric Roll Senior Adviser, Warburg Dillon Read

• Sweden Björn Rosengren Minister for Industry, Employment and Communication

• Portugal Ricardo E.S. Salgado President and CEO, Grupo Espírito Santo

• Portugal Jorge Sampaio President of Portugal

• Portugal Nicolau Santos Editor-in-Chief, EXPRESSO

• Netherlands Ad J. Scheepbouwer Chairman and CEO, TNT Post Group

• Austria Richard Schenz CEO and Chairman of the Board, OMV

• Austria Rudolf Scholten Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank

• Germany Jürgen E. Schrempp Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler

• Denmark Tøger Seidenfaden Editor-in-Chief, Politiken

• United States of America Robert B. Shapiro Chairman and CEO, Monsanto Company

• Russia Lilia Shevtsova Carnegie Moscow Center

• Portugal Artur Santos Silva President and CEO, BPI Group

• Spain Pedro Solbes Mira Member of Parliament, Socialist Party

• Hungary György Surányi President, National Bank of Hungary

• Great Britain J. Martin Taylor Former Chief Executive, Barclays

• United States of America G. Richard Thoman President and CEO, Xerox Corporation

• United States of America John L. Thornton President and CO-COO, Goldman Sachs Group

• Russia Dmitri V. Trenin Deputy Director, Carnegie Moscow Center

• France Jean-Claude Trichet Governor, Banque de France

• United States of America Laura d'Andrea Tyson Dean, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley

• Finland Matti Vanhala Chairman of the Board, Bank of Finland

• Finland Pentti Vartia Managing Director, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)

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• Switzerland Daniel L Vasella Chairman and CEO, Novartis

• Greece Thanos M. Veremis Professor of Political History, University of Athens; President of Eliamep

• Austria Franz Vranitzky Former Federal Chancellor

• Netherlands Lodewijk J. de Waal Chairman, Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (FNV)

• Great Britain Martin Wolf Associate Editor and Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
  International/

• United States of America James D. Wolfensohn President, The World Bank

• Germany Otto Wolff von Amerongen Chairman and CEO of Otto Wolff GmbH

• Turkey Erkut Yücaoglu Chairman, Tusiad

• Czechoslovakia Michael Zantovský Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Security, Czech Senate

• Austria Norbert Zimmermann Chairman, Berndorf

RAPPORTEURS

• Great Britain John Micklethwait New York Bureau Chief, The Economist

• Great Britain Adrian Wooldridge Foreign Correspondent, The Economist

IN ATTENDANCE

• Netherlands Maja Banck Executive Secretary, Bilderberg Meetings

• Portugal João A. Estarreja Local Organizer 1999 Conference

• United States of America Michael J. Farren Adviser, American Friends of Bilderberg, Inc.

• Austria Diemut Kastner Local Organizer 2000 Conference