BILDERBERG MEETINGS
RYE BROOK CONFERENCE
10-12 May 1985
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR EUROPE AND CANADA:
Victor Halberstadt*
Professor of Public Finance, Leyden University

HONORARY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR THE UNITED STATES:
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr.*
Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

 

ITA Giovanni Agnelli** President, FIAT S.p.A.
USA Dwayne O. Andreas Chairman, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Inc.
NOR Johan H. Andresen Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tiedemann Group
AUS Hannes Androsch* Chairman of the Managing Board, Creditanstalt-Bankverein; Former Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Finance
USA Hans H. Angermueller Vice Chairman, Citibank, N.A.
USA George W. Ball** Former Under Secretary of State
POR Francisco Pinto Balsemao Former Prime Minister; Director, “Jornal Expresso”
CAN Thomas J. Bata Chairman, Bata Ltd.
USA Jack F. Bennett* Director and Senior Vice President, Exxon Corporation
NOR Eivinn Berg Ambassador and Peramanent Representative, Norwegian Delegation to NATO; Former State Secretary
TUR Selahattin Beyazit* Director of Companies
USA John C. Bierwirth Chairman, Grumman Corporation
TUR M. Nuri Birgi Ambassador at Large
ICE Bjorn Bjarnason Assistant Editor-in-Chief, “Morgunbladid”
CAN Conrad M. Black Chairman, Argus Corporation, Ltd.
USA Bill Bradley U.S. Senator, New Jersey
USA Nicholas F. Brady Chairman, Dillon, Read & Company, Inc.; Former U.S. Senator (New Jersey)
USA Zbigniew Brzezinski Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia University; Former Assistant to President Carter for National Security Affairs
USA William P. Bundy** Former Editor, “Foreign Affairs”
USA Louis W. Cabot Chairman, Cabot Corporation
ITA Umberto Cappuzzo Chief of Staff, Italian Army
GRE Costa Carras* Member of the Board, Greek Shipping Cooperation Committee
FRA Helene Carrere D’encausse Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris; Professor of History and Political Science of the Soviet Union at the Sorbonne
SPA Jaime Carvajal Urquijo* Chairman, Banco Hispano Industrial
SWI Kaspar V. Cassani Senior Vice President, IBM Corporation; Chairman, IBM World Trade EMEA Corporation
SPA Juan Luis Cebrian Director and Editor-in-Chief, “El Pais”
INT A. W. Clausen President, The World Bank
POR Jose Manuel Torres Couto Secretary-General, General Trade Union UGT
FRG Ralf Dahrendorf Professor, Konstanz University (School of Social Sciences)
USA Kenneth W. Dam Deputy Secretary of State
BEL Etienne Davignon Former Member, Commission of the European Communities
USA Murray H. Finley* President, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, AFL-CIO
IRE Garret Fitzgerald Prime Minister of the Irish Republic
FRA Jean Francois-Poncet Former Miister of Foreign Affairs
FRA Michel Francois-Poncet Chairman, Paribas North America
USA Charles Getchell* Partner, Gray & Wendell; Rapporteur Bilderberg Meetings
FRA Michel Giraud Senator; President, Regional Council of Ile de France
USA Donald Gregg Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
USA William E. Griffith Proessor, Political Science Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CAN Franklyn Griffiths Professor, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto
SWE Sten Gustafsson* Chairman of the Board, Saab-Scania AB
ICE Geir Hallgrimsson* Minister of Foreign Affairs
SWI Hans Heckmann Executive Vice President, Member of the Executive Board, Union Bank of Switzerland
USA Henry J. Heinz II** Chairman, H.J. Heinz Company, Inc.
SWE Mats Hellstroem Minister for Foreign Trade
FRG Alfred Herrhausen* Managing Director, Deutsche Bank A.G.
USA John J. Horan Chairman, Merck & Company, Inc.
USA Robert Hormats Director, Goldman Sachs International Corporation; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
FIN Jaakko Iloniemi Member of the Management Board, The Union Bank of Finland; Former Ambassador to the U.S.
UK Martin W. Jacomb Vice Chairman, Kleinwort, Benson Limited
BEL Daniel E. Janssen* Member Executive Committee, Solvay & Cie, S.A.
USA James R. Jones U.S. Congressman, Oklahoma
USA Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.* Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; Former President, National Urban League
GRE Basil Kafiris Governor, Agricultural Bank of Greece
FRG Karl Kaiser Director, Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Affairs
TUR Jak V. Kamhi Chairman of the Board, Profilo Holding A.S.
UK Geoffrey C. Kent Chairman and Chief Executive, Imperial Group, PLC
USA Henry A. Kissinger* Former Secretary of State; Professor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University
UK Andrew Knight* Editor, “The Economist”
INT Emile Van Lennep Former Secretary-General, OECD
UK Lord Lever of Manchester Former Cabinet Minister and Financial Secretary; Former Member of Parliament
LIE H.S.H. Prince Hans-Adam von Liechtenstein
NET Hans B. Van Liemt Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors, D.S.M.
POR Ernani Rodrigues Lopes Minister of Finance
USA Winston Lord* President, The Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.
CAN Donald S. Macdonald Senior Partner, McCarthy & McCarthy; Chairman, Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada
CAN Roy MacLaren President, CB Media Ltd. and Publisher, Canadian Business; Former Member of Parliament and Minister of National Revenue
USA Bruce K. MacLaury* President, The Brookings Institution
FRA Jacques Maisonrouge Vice Chairman, Liquid Air Corporation
USA Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.* U.S. Senator, Maryland
FRG Alois Mertes Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
FRA Thierry de Montbrial* Director, French Institute of International Relations; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique
ITA Mario Monti* Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy and Director of the Institute of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan
SWI Felicien Morel Director of Finance, Canton of Fribourg; Former M.P.
DEN Niels Norlund* Editor-in-Chief, “Berlingske Tidende”
TUR Osman Olcay Ambassador to NATO; Former Foreign Minister
INT Robert O’Neill Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies
INT Jean-Claude Paye Secretary-General, OECD
USA Richard Perle Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
USA Leland S. Prussia Chairman, Bank of America
USA Rozanne L. Ridgway U.S. Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic
USA David Rockefeller** Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank International Advisory Committee
INT Bernard W. Rogers Supreme Allied Commander Europe
UK Lord Roll of Ipsden** Chairman, S. G. Warburg & Co., Ltd.
ITA Guido Rossi Lawyer
NET H. Onno Ruding Minister of Finance, Chairman of the Interim Committee of the IMF
ITA Giovanni Sartori Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
USA Richard M. Scammon Director, Elections Research Center
ITA Mario Schimberni President, Montedison
USA Brent Scowcroft Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates; Former Member of President’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control
FRA E. Antoine Seilliere* Director-General, Compagnie Generale d’Industrie et de Participations
UK Patrick Sheehy Chairman, BAT Industries, PLC
SPA Javier Solana Madariaga Minister of Culture
FRG Theo Sommer* Publisher, “Die Zeit”
USA Herbert Stein Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
UK Norman Tebbit Secretary of Trade and Industry; Member of Parliament, Member of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet
CAN Pierre Elliott Trudeau Former Prime Minister
SWI Victor Umbricht** Member of the Advisory Board, Ciba-Geigy Ltd.; Mediator, East African Community
NET Joop M. Den Uyl Parliamentary Leader, Labour Party; Former Prime Minister
AUS Franz Vranitzky Minister of Finance
UK Mark Weinberg Chairman, Hambro Life Assurance, PLC
NOR Niels Werring, Jr.* Senior Partner, Wilh. Wilhelmsen
USA John C. Whitehead Chairman, International Advisory Board, Goldman Sachs & Co., Inc.
FRG Norbert Wieczorek Member of Parliament
USA James D. Wolfensohn President, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.
FRG Otto Wolff von Amerongen** Chairman of the Board of Management, Otto Wolff A.G.
CAN Bernard Wood Director, North-South Institute
FRG Manfred Worner Minister of Defense
USA Edwin H. Yeo III Managing Director, Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc., former Under Secretary of the Treasury
UK Lord Young of Graffham Minister without Portfolio; Member Prime Minsiter’s Cabinet
ITA Paolo Zannoni* Director, Department of Political Analysis, FIAT S.p.A.
IN ATTENDANCE:
UK John Hennings Organizer, 1986 Conference; Former High Commissioner in Singapore
USA Charles W. Muller President, Murden and Company
AUS Georg Zimmer-Lehman Managing Director, Creditanstalt-Bankverein
RAPPORTEURS:
USA Charles Getchell Partner, Gray & Wendell
USA Grant F. Winthrop Communications and Public Relations Consultant

* Member of the Steering Committee
** Member of the Advisory Committee

 

Agenda

May 10-12, 1985 – Rye Brook, New York, USA

I. Divergent social and economic trends in the Atlantic World

II. How should the West deal with the Soviet Bloc?

III. The Strategic Defense Initiative

IV. How should the West deal with developing countries?

V. Current events: the U.S. Budget and the European perspective

VI. Operating the Alliance