2022 Bilderberg Conference

The 2022 Bilderberg Conference was held between June 2–5 at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington, D.C. (now the Salamander Washington DC Hotel). It was the first time the conference had convened in person since 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A Bilderberg Group press release stated that there were approximately 120 participants from 21 countries. The 2022 meeting was the 68th edition of the event.

Established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Bilderberg conferences are an annual private gathering of the European and North American political and business elite. Events are attended by between 120 and 150 people each year invited by the Bilderberg Group's steering committee; including high-level politicians, CEOs, national security experts, academics and journalists.

During the conference, the Mandarin Oriental was entirely booked out and cordoned off with barricades. Police cars and limousines were reported to be surrounding the entrance. Hotel staff spoken to by journalists from The Australian claimed to either not know what was going on inside, or that they could not say.

Agenda
The key topics for discussion at the 2022 Bilderberg conference were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. Topics for discussion included:


 * Geopolitical Realignments
 * NATO Challenges
 * China
 * Indo-Pacific Realignment
 * Sino-US Tech Competition
 * Russia
 * Continuity of Government and the Economy
 * Disruption of the Global financial system
 * Disinformation
 * Energy Security and Sustainability
 * Post Pandemic Health
 * Fragmentation of Democratic Societies
 * Trade and Deglobalization
 * Ukraine

Participants
A list of 119 participants was published on the Bilderberg website. This list may not be complete, as a source connected to the Bilderberg group told The Daily Telegraph in 2013 that some attendees do not have their names publicized.


 * Paul Achleitner (treasurer)
 * Adewale Adeyemo
 * José Manuel Albares
 * Roger Altman
 * Sam Altman
 * Anne Applebaum
 * José Luis Arnaut
 * Ida Auken
 * Audrey Azoulay
 * James Baker
 * Patricia Barbizet
 * José Barroso
 * Valérie Baudson
 * Ben van Beurden
 * Albert Bourla
 * Thomas Buberl
 * William Burns
 * Thomas Byrne
 * Kurt Campbell
 * Mark Carney
 * Pablo Casado
 * Tarun Chhabra
 * Paschal Donohoe
 * Mathias Döpfner
 * William Dudley
 * Jen Easterly
 * Elizabeth Economy
 * Bernard Émié
 * Charles Emond
 * Emre Erdogan
 * Øyvind Eriksen
 * Sergio Ermotti
 * Yaya Fanusie
 * Stefano Feltri
 * Jeremy Fleming
 * Chrystia Freeland
 * Isabel Furtado
 * Michael Gove
 * Victor Halberstadt (co-chair)
 * Lena Hallengren
 * Ralph Hamers
 * Demis Hassabis
 * Connie Hedegaard
 * Mary Henry
 * Mellody Hobson
 * Ben Hodges
 * Wopke Hoekstra
 * Reid Hoffman
 * Jean Marc Huët
 * Shashank Joshi
 * Alex Karp
 * Henry Kissinger
 * Ömer Koç
 * Michael Kofman
 * Wojciech Kostrzewa
 * Martin Krasnik
 * Henry Kravis
 * Marie-Josée Kravis (co-chair)
 * André Kudelski
 * Jörg Kukies
 * David Lammy
 * Yann LeCun
 * Livia Leu
 * Thomas Leysen
 * Erkki Liikanen
 * Mark Little
 * Bernard Looney
 * Martin Lundstedt
 * Tobias Lütke
 * Sanna Marin
 * Oksana Markarowa
 * Beate Meinl-Reisinger
 * Charles Michel
 * Zanny Minton Beddoes
 * Michael Mullen
 * Craig Mundie
 * Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
 * Kaius Niemi
 * Carlos Núñez
 * Michael O'Leary
 * Dimitri Papalexopoulos
 * David Petraeus
 * Kyriakos Pierrakakis
 * Ana Pinho
 * Patrick Pouyanné
 * Gideon Rachman
 * Gina Raimondo
 * Grace Reksten Skaugen
 * Mithat Rende
 * Didier Reynders
 * Mark Rutte
 * Diogo Salvi
 * John Sawers
 * Nadia Schadlow
 * Margaritis Schinas
 * Eric Schmidt
 * Kevin Scott
 * Nuno Sebastião
 * Mark Sedwill
 * Radoslaw Sikorski
 * Kyrsten Sinema
 * Francesco Starace
 * Constanze Stelzenmüller
 * Jens Stoltenberg
 * Tinne Van der Straeten
 * Mustafa Suleyman
 * Jake Sullivan
 * Ashley Tellis
 * Peter Thiel
 * Andreas Treichl
 * Tom Tugendhat
 * Markos Veremis
 * Yuriy Vitrenko
 * Celeste Wallander
 * Marcus Wallenberg
 * Emma Walmsley
 * Peter Wennink
 * Murat Yetkin
 * Afsin Yurdakul