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Ben Bernanke leaves the 2008 Bilderberg
Date5 June 2008 - 8 June 2008
LocationChantilly, Virginia, USA
DescriptionThe 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
PerpetratorsBilderberg/Steering committee
ParticipantsJosef Ackermann, John Adams, Fouad Ajami, Keith Alexander, Joaquín Almunia, George Alogoskoufis, Roger Altman, Ali Babacan, Jan Peter Balkenende, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Nicolas Baverez, Franco Bernabè, Ben Bernanke, Carl Bildt, Antti Blåfield, Stine Bosse, Ian Brodie, Oscar Bronner, Henri de Castries, Juan Luis Cebrián, Edmund Clark, Kenneth Clarke, Kristin Clemet, Timothy C. Collins, Bertrand Collomb, António Costa, Chester A. Crocker, Thomas Daschle, Etienne Davignon, Paul Desmarais, Anna Diamantopoulou, Thomas E. Donilon, Mario Draghi, Brigitte Ederer, N. Murray Edwards, Anders Eldrup, John Elkann, Martha J. Farah, Martin S. Feldstein, Joschka Fischer, Harold E. Ford Jr., Peter Forstmoser, Paul Gallagher, Timothy Geithner, Paul Gigot, Dermot Gleeson, Harold Goddijn, Zeynep Gögüs, Donald E. Graham, Victor Halberstadt, Richard Holbrooke, Seppo Honkapohja, Jaap G. de Hoop Scheffer, Allan B. Hubbard, Jan Huyghebaert, Wolfgang Ischinger, Kenneth Jacobs, James A. Johnson, Tom Johnstone, Vernon Jordan, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, John Kerr, Henry Kissinger, Eckart von Klaeden, Klaus Kleinfeld, Mustafa Koç, Bassma Kodmani, Henry R. Kravis, Marie-Josée Kravis, Neelie Kroes, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Wolfgang Leitner, Bernardino León Gross, Peter Mandelson, Christophe de Margerie, Roger Martin, János Martonyi, Jessica T. Mathews, Charlie McCreevy, William J. McDonough, Frank McKenna, Tom McKillop, Thierry de Montbrial, Mario Monti, Craig J. Mundie, Egil Myklebust, Matthias Nass, Beatrix Armgard, Christine Ockrent, Jorma Ollila, Maud Olofsson, Willem-Alexander Ferdinand, George Osborne, Faik Öztrak, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Alexis Papahelas, Dimitris Papalexopoulos, Henry M. Paulson, Frank H. Pearl, Richard Perle, François Pérol, Volker Perthes, H.R.H. Prince Philippe, J. Robert S. Prichard, Heather M. Reisman, Condoleezza Rice, Rui Rio, David Rockefeller, Matias Rodriguez Inciarte, Charlie Rose, Flemming Rose, Dennis B. Ross, Barnett R. Rubin, Ferit Sahenk, Mark Sanford, Eric Schmidt, Rudolf Scholten, Fritz H. Schur, Karel Schwarzenberg, Kathleen Sebelius, George P. Shultz, Queen Sofia, Markus Spillmann, Lawrence H. Summers, J. Martin Taylor, Peter A. Thiel, Frans Timmermans, Dmitri V. Trenin, Jean-Claude Trichet, Sanam Vakil, Manuel Valls, Thomas Varvitsiotis, Daniel L. Vasella, Raimo Väyrynen, Hubert Védrine, Knut Vollebaek, Jacob Wallenberg, J. Vin Weber, James D. Wolfensohn, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert B. Zoellick
Witnessed byVendeline von Bredow, Adrian D. Wooldridge

The 2008 Bilderberg Meeting was the 56th such meeting and had participants from European countries, the United States and Canada. It was held at Chantilly, Virginia, USA. The guests included business executives, politicians, financiers, editors/journalists and academics. The next meeting was the 2009 Bilderberg.

Agenda

The 2008 Bilderberg Agenda has not been leaked, but the website at Bilderberg Meetings has posted an agenda.

1. Cyber-terrorism

2. A Nuclear-Free World

3. Managing Financial Turbulence

4. US Foreign Policy Without Change

5. How Serious Are the Threats on Our Economies

6. Islam in Europe

7. Africa

8. Afghanistan, Challenge for the West

9. Iran-Pakistan

10. A Look at the Future

11. The Mounting Threat of Protectionism

12. Russia

13. After Bush: The Future of US-EU Relations

14. Current Affairs: US Elections

References