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Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
General Keith B. Alexander, is the current Director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA), Chief, Central Security Service (CCSS) and Commander, United States Cyber Command.
Alexander was born in Syracuse, New York, and entered active duty at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Previous assignments include the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS, G-2), Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. from 2003 to 2005; Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command at Fort Belvoir, Virginia from 2001 to 2003; Director of Intelligence (J-2), United States Central Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida from 1998 to 2001; and Deputy Director for Intelligence (J-2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 1998. Alexander served in a variety of command assignments in Germany and the United States. These include tours as Commander of Border Field Office, 511th MI Battalion, 66th MI Group; 336th Army Security Agency Company, 525th MI Group; 204th MI Battalion; and 525th Military Intelligence Brigade.
Alexander attended Bilderberg meetings in 2008 and 2009.
Additionally, Gen Alexander held key staff assignments as Deputy Director and Operations Officer, Army Intelligence Master Plan, for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; S-3 and Executive Officer, 522nd MI Battalion, 2nd Armored Division; G-2 for the 1st Armored Division both in Germany and Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia.
In addition to his Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy, Alexander has an M.S.B.A. from the Boston University Graduate School of Management and dual Master of Science degrees in systems technology (electronic warfare) and physics from the Naval Postgraduate School. He also holds a Master of Science degree in national security from the National Defense University.
His military education includes the Armor Officer Basic Course, the Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the National War College.
General Alexander was confirmed by the US Senate for appointment to the rank of general on May 7, 2010 and was officially promoted to that rank in a ceremony on May 21, 2010. General Alexander also assumed command of United States Cyber Command in that ceremony.
Altman, Roger C., Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
Roger Altman is an American investment banker, private equity investor and former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury who served under Bill Clinton.
Altman holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
He was a general partner of Lehman Brothers from 1974 to 1977. From 1977 to 1981 he served as the Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury, during which time he helped oversee the then-troubled financial affairs of Chrysler. In 1981, he returned to Lehman Brothers, where he became the co-head of investment banking and served on the board of the company and the management committee. During the 1980s, he was a lecturer and adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management. In 1987, Altman joined the newly-formed Blackstone Group as vice-chairman, head of its mergers and acquisitions advisory business and a member of the investment committee.
Altman served as the Deputy Treasury Secretary, before resigning in 1994 following a record-keeping scandal. In 1996, instead of returning to Blackstone, he co-founded Evercore Partners, a boutique advisory and private equity investment firm in New York City, and currently serves as firm's Chairman.
Altman has served as advisor to two presidential candidates: John Kerry in 2004, and Hillary Clinton in 2008.
Altman is founder and chairman of Evercore Partners, which advised on the GM deal. Evercore, after being paid $46 million by GM pre-bankruptcy, asked for a $17.9 million "success fee." A U.S. bankruptcy trustee termed the fees "staggering" and "inordinately large" and said it "clearly exceeds the bounds of reasonableness" given that "Evercore had no success at finding a purchaser or funder for the Debtors."
Altman is married to journalist Jurate Kazickas.
Altman is listed as a member of the Steering Committee of The Bilderberg Group, a controversial group of influential business and government leaders who meet annually behind closed doors under a media blackout to discuss world issues.
Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the founder, president, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.
After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. Then Bezos worked for Bankers Trust, becoming a vice-president. Later on he also worked in computer science for D. E. Shaw & Co.
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way and setting up the original company in his garage. His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs and a billionaire. In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup company called Blue Origin.
Bezos' salary as CEO for 2010 was only $81,840, in addition to $1.6 million paid for his personal security. He owns 20% of Amazon's stock.
Bezos is known for his attention to business process details. As described by Condé Nast's Portfolio.com, he "is at once a happy-go-lucky mogul and a notorious micro-manager. ... an executive who wants to know about everything from contract minutiae to how he is quoted in all Amazon press releases."
Collins, Timothy C., CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
Timothy C. Collins is the founder, senior managing director, and chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Citigroup.
Collins was born in Frankfort, Kentucky. Raised in Fostoria, Ohio. A 1974 graduate of Fostoria High School. He has a B.A. degree in Philosophy from DePauw University (1978),[1] where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta Indiana Zeta chapter, and an MBA from Yale School of Management. He was also a delegate at the 2010 Bilderberg Conference held in Spain. This group consists of an assembly of notable politicians, industrialists and financiers who meet annually to discuss issues on a non-disclosure basis.
He began his career in finance, marketing, and manufacturing at Cummins Engine Company. From 1981 to 1984, he worked with the management consulting firm of Booz & Company, specializing in strategic and operational assignments with major industrial and financial firms. He became a vice president at Lazard Frères in New York, then managed Onex Corporation’s New York office.
Founded in 1995, Ripplewood manages about $4.0 billion in four institutional private equity funds: Ripplewood Partners, L.P., Ripplewood Partners II, L.P., RHJ International, L.P. and New LTCB Partners C.V. The company invests in education publishing, telecoms, automotive retail, specialty chemicals, consumer products & food manufacturing, and industrial products.
Ripplewood has invested in nearly a dozen industry groups and in companies with more than $20 billion of revenue. It has led several of the largest private equity transactions, including its takeover of the Long-Term Credit Bank, renamed Shinsei Bank, which helped restructure the Japanese economy. Collins was named one of the “25 Stars of Asia: Leaders at the Forefront of Change” by BusinessWeek magazine in 2004.[2]
Collins is a director of several public companies as well as some of Ripplewood’s private portfolio companies. He is involved in several not-for-profit and public sector activities, including the U.S.-Japan Business Council, the Trilateral Commission, the U.S.-Japan Private Sector/Government Commission, Yale Divinity School advisory board, Yale School of Management board of advisors, American Friends of the British Museum, Yaddo, the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Trout Unlimited, and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.
His managing partners are Lawrence Lavine, Harris Williams and Michael C. Duran.
Feldstein, Martin S., George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Martin Stuart Feldstein is currently the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the NBER from 1978 through 2008. From 1982 to 1984, Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan (where his deficit hawk views clashed with Reagan administration economic policies). He has also been a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty since 2003.
In 1977, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, a prize awarded every two years to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the greatest contribution to economic science. He is among the 10 most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He is the author of more than 300 research articles in economics and is known primarily for his work on macroeconomics and public finance. He has pioneered much of the research on the working mechanism and sustainability of public pension systems. Feldstein is an avid advocate of Social Security reform and has been a main driving force behind former President George W. Bush's initiative of partial privatization of the Social Security system. Aside from his contributions to the field of public sector economics, he has also authored other important macroeconomics papers. One of his more well-known papers in this field was his influential investigation with Charles Horioka of investment behavior in various countries. He and Horioka found that in the long run, capital tends to stay in its home country – that is to say, a nation's savings is used to fund its investment opportunities. This has since been known as the “Feldstein-Horioka puzzle”.
In 1997, writing about the upcoming European monetary union and the Euro, Feldstein warned that the "adverse economic effects of a single currency on unemployment and inflation would outweigh any gains from facilitating trade and capital flows" and that, while "conceived of as a way of reducing the risk of another intra-European war", it was "more likely to have the opposite effect" and "lead to increased conflicts within Europe and between Europe and the United States".
In 2005, Feldstein was widely considered a leading candidate to succeed chairman Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This was in part due to his prominence in the Reagan administration and his position as an economic advisor for the Bush presidential campaign. The New York Times wrote an editorial advocating that Bush choose either Feldstein or Ben Bernanke due to their credentials, and the week of the nomination The Economist predicted that the two men had the greatest probability of selection out of the field of candidates. Ultimately, the position went to Bernanke, possibly because Feldstein was a board member of AIG, which announced the same year that it would restate five years of past financial reports by $2.7 billion. Subsequently, as a result of risky bets made by its Financial Products Division, AIG suffered a massive financial collapse that played a central role in the worldwide economic crisis of 2007–08 and the ensuing global recession. The firm was rescued only by multiple capital infusions by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, which extended a $182.5 billion line of credit. Although Feldstein was not explicitly linked to the accounting practices in question, he had served as a Director of AIG since 1988. In March 2007, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced that one of four 2007 Bradley Prizes to honor outstanding achievement would be awarded to Feldstein. On September 10, 2007, Feldstein announced that he would be stepping down as president of NBER effective June 2008.
Feldstein served as a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2007 to 2009.
Feldstein said in March 2008 he believed the United States was in a recession and it could be a severe one.
As a member of the board of AIG Financial Products, Feldstein was one of those who had oversight of the division of the international insurer that contributed to the company's crisis in September, 2008. He now serves as a board member for Eli Lilly and Company. He previously served on the boards of several other public companies including JPMorgan and TRW.
On February 6, 2009, Feldstein was announced as one of U.S. President Obama's advisors on the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
On May 27, 2009 Feldstein announced he will step down as a director of AIG. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Group of 30 and the National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Martin Feldstein is a member of the Bilderberg Group and a regular participant in their meetings.
He is a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and has been listed as one of the most likely to win for several years.
Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Reid G. Hoffman is an American entrepreneur and investor. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching.
After working at Apple Computer and Fujitsu in product management, Hoffman co-founded his first company, SocialNet.com, an on-line dating service.
While at SocialNet, Hoffman was a member of the board of directors at the founding of PayPal, an electronic money transmission service, and later joined the firm as a full-time employee. At the time of PayPal's acquisition by eBay in 2002, he was Executive Vice President of PayPal.
Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in December 2002. It was one of the first business-oriented on-line social networks. He was LinkedIn’s founding CEO for the first four years before becoming Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. Currently he is Executive Chairman. LinkedIn currently has 100 million members in over 200 countries.
According to David Kirkpatrick's book The Facebook Effect, Hoffman arranged the first meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, which led to Thiel's initial $500,000 angel investment in the company. Hoffman invested alongside Thiel in Facebook's very first financing round.
Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
Chris R. Hughes is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the on-line social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin.
Hughes was the coordinator of on-line organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's on-line social networking website. He was the subject of an April 2009 cover story in Fast Company magazine under the headline, "The Kid Who Made Obama President; How Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Unleashed Barack's Base - and Changed Politics and Marketing Forever".
Jacobs, Kenneth M., Chairman & CEO, Lazard
Kenneth M. Jacobs is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lazard since November 16, 2009. Lazard Ltd (NYSE: LAZ) is the parent company of Lazard Group LLC, a global, independent investment bank with approximately 2,300 employees in 42 cities across 27 countries throughout Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. Formerly known as Lazard Frères & Co. the firm's origins date back to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and capital raising, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments, and individuals. Lazard remained privately held until May 5, 2005, when the company conducted an initial public offering of its shares.
Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
Johnson has long been one of Washington's most prominent leaders, holding leadership positions in business, the arts, and politics.
Johnson began his career as a faculty member at Princeton University, later moving on to the United States Senate as a staff member and to the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (now Target Corp.) as director of public affairs. He was executive assistant to Vice President Walter Mondale during the entire Carter Administration (1977–1981). Later, he founded and headed Public Strategies, a private consulting firm, from 1981 to 1985.
From 1991 to 1998, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the quasi-public organization that guarantees mortgages for millions of American homeowners. Previously, he was vice chairman of Fannie Mae (1990–1991) and a managing director with Lehman Brothers (1985–1990). An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report from September 2004 found that, during Johnson's tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998. A 2006 OFHEO report found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson's compensation. Originally reported as $6–7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.
As of 2006, he is a vice chairman of the private banking firm Perseus LLC, a position he has held since 2001. He is also a board member at Goldman Sachs, Gannett Company, Inc., a media holding group, KB Home, a home construction firm, Target Corporation, Temple-Inland, and a former director of UnitedHealth Group.
Johnson has also served as chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Arts (1996–2004) and the Brookings Institution (1994–2003). He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Friends of Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. In 1994 he received the Honor Award from the National Building Museum for his contributions to the U.S.'s building heritage during his tenure at Fannie Mae.
On May 22, 2008, Democratic Party officials confidentially divulged that Obama had asked Johnson "to lead the process" for selecting Obama's running mate. On June 4, 2008, Obama announced the formation of a three-person committee to vet vice presidential candidates, including Johnson. However, Johnson soon became a source of controversy when it was reported that he had received loans directly from Angelo Mozilo, the CEO of Countrywide Financial, a company implicated in the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis. Although he was not accused of any wrongdoing and was initially defended by Obama on the grounds that he was simply an unpaid volunteer, Johnson announced he would step down from the vice-presidential vetting position on June 11, 2008, in order to avoid being a distraction to Obama's campaign.
Johnson is a strong Obama supporter who has personally donated the maximum $4,600 to his 2008 Presidential campaign, as well as $1,000 to Obama's Senate campaign in 2004. In addition to personal donations, Johnson is a bundler for the Obama campaign, raising between $200,000 and $500,000. He has also participated in Obama campaign efforts to recruit former Clinton supporters.
On September 19, 2008, the McCain campaign released an ad critical of Obama which linked him to Johnson.
According to Gretchen Morgenson, who with Joshua Rosner wrote Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon, James Johnson is the "corporate America's founding father of regulation manipulation" and one of the key figures responsible for the 2008 financial breakdown.
Jordan, Jr., Vernon E., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. a friend and adviser to Bill Clinton, served as part of Clinton's transition team in 1992–1993, shortly after he was elected President.
Jordan controversially helped Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, after she left the White House. On October 1, 2003, a United States court of appeals rejected Jordan's claim for reimbursement for legal services regarding Clinton's involvement with Lewinsky and Paula Jones. Jordan asked the government to pay him $302,719, but was paid only $1,215.
Since January 2000, Jordan has been Senior Managing Director with Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, an investment banking firm. He is also currently a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, including American Express, J.C. Penney Corporation, Xerox, Asbury Automotive Group and the Dow Jones & Company. He is formerly a member of the board of directors of Revlon, Sara Lee, Corning and RJR Nabisco during 1989 leveraged buy-out fight between RJR Nabisco CEO F. Ross Johnson and Henry R. Kravis and his company KKR. A close friend of Jordan was the late Xerox tycoon Charles Peter McColough, who convinced Jordan to join the Board of Trustees at Xerox. McColough served as a mentor and friend of Jordan's until McColough's death.
In 2004, Jordan led debate preparation and negotiation efforts on behalf of John Kerry, the Democratic nominee for President.
In 2006, Jordan served as a member of the Iraq Study Group, which was formed to make recommendations on the U.S. policy in Iraq.
Keane, John M., Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired
John Keane is a retired four-star general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and a defense analyst currently serving as Chairman of the Board for The Institute for the Study of War.
Keane retired from military service in 2003, after which he founded Keane Advisors, LLC, a consulting firm. He is also a national security analyst for ABC News. He has served an advisory role in the management of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, as a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee. In January 2007, Keane and scholar Frederick W. Kagan released a policy paper, entitled "Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq", through the American Enterprise Institute that called for bringing security by putting around 30,000 additional American troops there for a period of at least 18 months. In part convinced by this paper, President George W. Bush ordered on January 10, 2007 the deployment of 21,500 additional troops to Iraq, most of which would be deployed to Baghdad.
Kissinger, Henry A., Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Henry Alfred Kissinger is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many following presidents and many world leaders.
A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated the opening of relations with the People's Republic of China, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, ending American involvement in the Vietnam War. Various American policies of that era, including the bombing of Cambodia, remain controversial.
Kissinger is still a controversial figure today. He was honored as the first recipient of the Ewald von Kleist Award of the Munich Conference on Security Policy and currently serves as the chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.
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Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Kleinfeld received a business degree from Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany and a Ph.D. in management, University of Würzburg.
In 1986, he joined Ciba-Geigy in Basel (Switzerland), where he was a product manager in the Pharmaceutical Division.
Kleinfeld has worked for Siemens AG since 1987. His first position was in the company’s Corporate Sales and Marketing unit.
In January 2001, Kleinfeld moved to the United States, where he served first as chief operating officer (COO) and then – from 2002 to 2004 – as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Siemens USA.
In January 2004, Klaus Kleinfeld was appointed to Siemens’ Corporate Executive Committee. Kleinfeld was appointed Vice President of Siemens AG in the middle of 2004 and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on January 27, 2005, succeeding Dr. Heinrich von Pierer. As CEO, Kleinfeld set about restructuring Siemens. This led to the company turning in profits last year of $3.96 billion (up 35%) and increasing Siemens share price by 40%. His attempts at modernization, however, brought him into conflict with the defenders of Siemens business culture, both inside and outside the company. While generally viewed positively by the worldwide financial press, Kleinfeld regularly received criticism from the media in Germany, mostly for lack of social responsibility against Siemens workers.
Under his leadership, the company's financially stricken mobile handset business was sold for a negative charge to Taiwan's BenQ in June 2005. The German subsidiary, BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG, declared bankruptcy about one year later when the Taiwanese parent enterprise stopped all funding, resulting in extensive redundancies. This led to speculation in the German media that Siemens had off-loaded the division to avoid dealing with the fallout of its imminent demise. At about the same time, Siemens' Supervisory Board increased the salary of the Siemens Board of Directors by 30% although, in an attempt at damage limitation over the negative publicity involved in the redundancies, the board pledged their pay rises to a relief fund set up by Siemens to aid the workers affected.
In 2006, a series of corruption charges were laid against Siemens. Kleinfeld, along with other former Siemens executives and board members, was "accused of failing to prevent corruption". In September 2009, Siemens extended an offer to Kleinfeld and other former members of "its Managing Board against whom damages are being claimed ... to declare their willingness to reach a settlement." While Kleinfeld denied wrongdoing and no charges were brought, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle the matter.
Kleinfeld is a member of the board of directors of Alcoa Inc., of Bayer AG and of Citigroup Inc. After the announcement that he would be joining Alcoa, he resigned from the Citigroup board as Alcoa’s then CEO was the lead director for the board.
Kravis, Henry R., Co-Chairman and co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co.
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading a leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR).
After working at various jobs in New York City's financial sector, he and his first cousin, George R. Roberts, joined the staff of Bear Stearns. Kravis and Roberts share the same grandfather, an immigrant from Russia. There, they worked under the corporate finance manager, Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.. They both became partners at Bear Stearns at a very young age, 30 and 31.
Working for Bear Stearns in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kravis, alongside Kohlberg and Roberts began a series of what they described as "bootstrap" investments. Kohlberg's acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company in 1964 is among the first significant leveraged buyout transactions. In the following years Kohlberg and later Kravis and Roberts would complete a series of buyouts including Stern Metals (1965), Incom (a division of Rockwood International, 1971), Cobblers Industries (1971), and Boren Clay (1973) as well as Thompson Wire, Eagle Motors and Barrows through their investment in Stern Metals. Although they had a number of highly successful investments, the $27 million investment in Cobblers ended in bankruptcy. Kravis and his associates created a series of limited partnerships to acquire these various corporations, ones they judged were performing well below their sales and profit potential or where there were untapped financial assets that could be monetized. In most cases, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co put up ten percent of the acquisition price from its own funds and borrowed the rest from investors by issuing high-yield bonds.
Under Kravis and Roberts the firm was responsible for the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. At a cost of $31.4 billion,[8] it was then the highest price ever paid for a commercial enterprise. The publicity surrounding the event led to the story being dramatized in the book and film, Barbarians at the Gate. In early 1995, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co divested its remaining holdings in RJR Nabisco.
Kravis, Marie-Josée, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
Marie-Josée Kravis is an economist and philanthropist. She is from Montreal, Quebec, and is the third wife of financier Henry Kravis.
Marie-Josée has been a power player in the US boardroom, with stints on the board of companies including Ford. She is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, President of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves on the International Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and on the board of directors of Publicis,SA and LVMH. She is a member of the Board of the Qatar Museum Authority. She has served on the Board of Directors of CIBC, The Standard Life Insurance CO, Hasbro Inc., Hollinger International, Vivendi Universal, Ford Motor Company and IAC/InterActiveCorp.
Li, Cheng, Senior Fellow and Director of Research, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
Cheng Li focuses on the transformation of political leaders, generational change and technological development in China.
He is currently a Trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs and an Adviser to the Academic Advisory Group of the U.S.-China Working Group, the United States Congress.
Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Craig James Mundie is chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. He has championed Microsoft Trustworthy Computing and digital rights management.
Mundie attended a meeting of the Bilderberg group in Vouliagmeni, Greece from May 14-17 in 2009. At the World Economic Forum debate on cyber attacks held in January 2010 in Davos, Switzerland, it was reported that Mundie advocated that individuals be licensed before being allowed to use the Internet.
Orszag, Peter R., Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Peter Richard Orszag is a Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup. He is also a columnist at Bloomberg View and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining Citigroup, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. Prior to that, he was the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama.
In 2009, he became engaged to ABC News financial reporter Bianna Golodryga, co-host of ABC's Weekend Good Morning America.
Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration.
Perle advocates pre-emptive strikes, such as in Iraq, as an extension of America's right to self defense. For example, Perle has expressed support for a theoretical first strike on North Korean and Iranian nuclear facilities.
As a member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based consulting firm Monitor Group, Perle was an advisor to Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2006. "Perle traveled to Libya twice in 2006 and met with Vice President Dick Cheney after the trips." According to Monitor documents, Perle traveled to Libya with several other advisers to hold lectures and workshops, and promote the image of Libya and its ruler.
Rockefeller, David, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
David Rockefeller, Sr. is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil.
A lifelong globalist, due to the strong influence of his father, he had at an early age further spread his connections when he was invited to attend the inaugural elitist Bilderberg Group meetings, starting with the Holland gathering in 1954. He has been a consistent attendee through the decades and has been a member of the "steering committee", which determines the invitation list for the upcoming annual meetings. These have frequently included prominent national figures who have gone on to be elected as political leaders of their respective countries including Bill Clinton who first attended in 1991.
David Rockefeller joined the Council on Foreign Relations as its youngest-ever director in 1949 and subsequently became chairman of the board from 1970 to 1985; today he serves as honorary chairman.
In 2002 Rockefeller authored his autobiography "Memoirs" wherein, on page 405, Mr. Rockefeller writes: "For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Rockefeller maintains that, although Bilderberg's role is not to resolve disputes, because of the wide-ranging experience of the various attendees participants are 'free to report on what they have heard' to their respective heads of government.
It was a dissatisfaction with the failure of this group to include Japan that subsequently led to him forming the Trilateral Commission (TC) in July 1973, influenced by, among others, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the National Security Advisor under Carter and the author of Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, published in 1970. They discussed forming the organization at a Bilderberg Group meeting in Belgium in 1972; Brzezinski subsequently became the inaugural United States director. The Commission also launched its own magazine, the Trialogue.
It held the founding session of its Executive Committee in Tokyo in October, 1973. In May 1975, the first plenary meeting of all of the Commission's regional groups — North America, Europe and Japan, comprising some 300 members — took place in Kyoto. In its Third Annual Report, released in mid-1976, the Commission noted that there was a "noticeably increased emphasis on trilateral ties as the cornerstone of American foreign policy".
This Commission was to come under media scrutiny when it was later disclosed that Carter appointed 26 former Commission members (who must resign before taking up government positions) to senior positions in his Administration. Moreover, it also came out that Carter himself was a former Trilateral member. (The Clinton Administration, by contrast, had close to a dozen Commission members, including Clinton himself; both Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush were also Trilateralists).
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Rose, Charlie, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
Charles Peete Rose, Jr. is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991, he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He was concurrently a correspondent for 60 Minutes II from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on 60 Minutes.
Rubin, Robert E., Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
Robert Edward Rubin served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton administrations. Before his government service, he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs eventually serving as a member of the Board, and Co-Chairman from 1990-1992. His most prominent post-government role was as Director and Senior Counselor of Citigroup, where he performed ongoing advisory and representational roles for the firm. From November to December 2007, he served temporarily as Chairman of Citigroup. On January 9, 2009, Citigroup announced he was resigning after being criticized for his performance. He received more than $126 million in cash and stock during his eight years at Citigroup.
In 1997, together with then-Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, Rubin strongly opposed the giving the Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight of over-the-counter credit derivatives when this was proposed by then-head of the CFTC Brooksley Born. Rubin's role was highlighted in a Public Broadcasting Service Frontline report, "The Warning." Over-the-counter credit derivatives were eventually excluded from regulation by the CFTC by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
Arthur Levitt Jr., a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has said in explaining Rubin's strong opposition to the regulations proposed by Born that Greenspan and Rubin were "joined at the hip on this." "They were certainly very fiercely opposed to this and persuaded me that this would cause chaos." However, in Mr. Rubin’s autobiography, he notes that he believed derivatives could pose significant problems and that many people who used derivatives did not fully understand the risks they were taking.
Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an engineer, a former member of the board of directors of Apple Inc., and current executive chairman of Google.
Schmidt was a campaign advisor and major donor to Barack Obama. Obama has considered him for Commerce Secretary. Schmidt was an informal advisor to the Obama presidential campaign and began campaigning the week of October 19, 2008, on behalf of the candidate. He had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the chief technology officer position which Obama created in his administration. Schmidt was a member of President Obama's transition advisory board. He proposed that the easiest way to solve all of the problems of the United States at once, at least in the domestic policy, is by a stimulus program that rewards renewable energy and, over time, attempts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy. He has since become a new member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
James Braidy Steinberg is an American academic and political advisor, currently Deputy Secretary of State.
Steinberg served as US State Department Director of Policy Planning (1994–1996), then Deputy National Security Advisor (December 1996–2001) to US President Bill Clinton.
After serving in the Clinton administration, Steinberg was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and the Institution's vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies (2001-2005).
Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
Peter Andreas Thiel is an American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, libertarian and venture capitalist of German descent. With Elon Musk and Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and was its CEO. He currently serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with under $700M in assets under management, and a managing partner in The Founders Fund, a $275 million venture capital fund that he launched with Ken Howery and Luke Nosek in 2005. He was an early investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, and sits on the company’s board of directors.
Thiel has made early-stage investments in numerous startups (personally or through his venture capital fund), including Slide, LinkedIn, Friendster, Rapleaf, Geni.com, Clickable Inc, Yammer, Yelp, Inc., Powerset, Vator, Palantir Technologies, Joyent, Rypple, IronPort, and CapLinked.
Thiel is listed as a member of the Steering Committee of The Bilderberg Group, a controversial group of influential business and government leaders who meet annually behind closed doors under a media blackout to discuss world issues.
Varney, Christine A., Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
Christine A. Varney is an American lawyer lobbyist, and Internet policy expert who served as personnel counsel for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. She now serves as Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the United States Department of Justice.
Before her appointment, Varney had experience working in both the private and public sectors. Before joining the Obama campaign, Varney was a fundraiser for the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2008 United States Presidential Election.
Until her appointment as an Assistant Attorney General, Varney was a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm Hogan and Hartson, where she led the Internet practice group. As a lawyer and lobbyist, Varney represented and advised companies on matters such as antitrust, privacy, business planning and corporate governance, intellectual property, and general liability issues. Notably, she represented Netscape during U.S. v. Microsoft and its merger with AOL. Other clients included eBay, DoubleClick, The Washington Post Company's Washingtonpost and Newsweek interactive businesses, Dow Jones & Company, AOL, Synopsys, Compaq, Gateway, the Liberty Alliance, and Real Networks. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, as a lobbyist Varney represented mostly computer and Internet firms, but also oil & gas interests.
In addition, Varney was instrumental in establishing several industry associations, including the Online Privacy Alliance, which helped promote self-regulation and identify Internet best practices in the field of on-line privacy. She also was on the board of directors of TRUSTe, a privacy certification and seal program.
Varney served in the Clinton Administration as a Federal Trade Commissioner from October 17, 1994 to August 5, 1997. As a Commissioner, Varney voted to bring actions against Toys 'R' Us for pressuring manufacturers to keep popular toys out of discount stores, to pursue charges of unfair advertising against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco for its "Joe Camel" advertising campaign, and to impose conditions on the mega-merger between Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System.[16] In her individual capacity, Varney became known for spearheading the FTC's examination of privacy and commerce, and promoting market theory analysis in the fields of information technology and biotechnology.
Before her career as a Commissioner, Varney worked as an associate at the firm of Pierson, Semmes & Finley (1986–1989), general counsel to the Democratic National Committee (1989 to 1992), chief counsel to the Clinton/Gore Campaign (1991), general counsel to the 1992 Presidential Inaugural Committee (1992), associate at the firm of Hogan & Hartson (1991–1993), and Assistant to the President and Secretary to the Cabinet (1993–1994). In her latter role, she acted as a liaison between the White House and cabinet departments. She stated the Clinton Administration's philosophy of cabinet management this way: "if you don’t surprise us, we won't micromanage you!"
She earned a degree at Trinity College, Dublin (1975), a B.A. at the State University of New York at Albany (1977), an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (magna cum laude 1978), and a J.D. at Georgetown Law School (1986).
While at the FTC, Varney predicted that on-line privacy would “become a critical aspect of [the FTC's] consumer protection responsibilities." Former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky has credited Varney as "the leading force in getting the agency active on the on-line privacy front."
In advocating adoption of the FTC's privacy guidelines, Varney identified a major goal of the FTC's Privacy Initiative as "avoid[ing] cumbersome regulation by facilitating the development of a set of voluntary guidelines." Varney's promotion of voluntary privacy guidelines was criticized by consumer privacy advocates as insufficient to provide adequate consumer protection. Others, however, lauded Ms. Varney's approach, believing that tight government regulations would stifle innovation.
As legal counsel and spokesperson for the On-line Privacy Alliance, Ms. Varney championed self-regulation as the basis for encouraging compliance with Internet privacy standards. Over time, however, her position changed. According to an article from November 2000, Varney said: "You could characterize the OPA as having a mantra of 'self-regulation, self-regulation, self-regulation’ . . . Next year, the mantra will be 'industry best practices as part of a comprehensive solution, and there may be legislation that would help.’"
As an FTC Commissioner, Varney voiced concerns about legislation that would grant certain antitrust immunities to doctors, as well as potential competitive problems caused by vertical integration of drug companies into the pharmacy benefits management market.
As Assistant Attorney General, Varney has suggested that there may be a lack of competition in the health insurance market, and has endorsed a measure that would revoke the federal antitrust exemption for health insurers. Ms. Varney has also been critical of "reverse payment" or "pay-for-delay" agreements, in which a potential generic competitor delays entry of a generic drug in exchange for a payment from a branded drug manufacturer with market power. A brief signed by Ms. Varney argues that such agreements are "presumptively unlawful." This position signifies a departure from the previous view held by the DOJ, and aligns the DOJ's position on "pay-for-delay" agreements with that of the FTC.
As a Commissioner at the FTC, Varney was outspoken about monopolies in innovation markets and about the possibility that vertical mergers create unfair barriers to entry.
Upon her nomination as Assistant Attorney General, Varney was predicted to be a more aggressive enforcer of antitrust laws than her predecessors in the Bush administration. Consistent with this prediction, one of Varney's first acts as Assistant Attorney General was to withdraw the DOJ's guidelines for enforcement of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. In her first public comments as Assistant Attorney General, Varney criticized the guidelines for "effectively straightjacket[ing] antitrust enforcers and courts from redressing monopolistic abuses, thereby allowing all but the most bold and predatory conduct to go unpunished and undeterred."
Since Varney joined the DOJ's Antitrust Division, it has opposed an antitrust immunity request involving Continental Airlines’ move to join a global alliance of nine airlines, opened inquiries into the financial services and wireless phone industries, and began probing the settlement between Google and the Association of American Publishers. In the past two years, the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement work has resulted in the assessment of over $1.5 billion in fines against criminal conspirators.
As both a Commissioner of the FTC and Assistant Attorney General, Varney has called for more cooperation in international antitrust enforcement. As an FTC Commissioner, Varney stated, "there is much more to be done by way of fostering communication and cooperation between enforcement authorities," and promoted adherence to international antitrust guidelines. Similarly, in her first public remarks as Assistant Attorney General, Varney stated, "I believe that as targets of antitrust enforcement have expanded their efforts worldwide, there is a greater need for U.S. authorities to reach out to other antitrust agencies." Since then, Varney has called for greater convergence, cooperation, and transparency between international antitrust enforcement agencies.
Vaupel, James W., Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
James W. Vaupel, Ph.D. is a leading scientist in the fields of aging research, biodemography, and formal demography.
Warsh, Kevin, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board
From 1995 to 2002, Warsh worked for Morgan Stanley in New York City, ultimately becoming a Vice President and Executive Director in the company's Mergers and Acquisitions Department.
From 2002 to 2006, Warsh was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Executive Secretary of the National Economic Council. His primary areas of responsibility included domestic finance, banking and securities regulatory policy, and consumer protection. He advised the President and senior administration officials on issues related to the U.S. economy, particularly fund flows in the capital markets, securities, banking, and insurance issues. Warsh participated in the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and served as the administration's chief liaison to the independent financial regulatory agencies.
President Bush nominated Warsh and Randall Kroszner to fill two Fed vacancies on January 27, 2006. Warsh's nomination drew some criticism, based on his age and inexperience. At 35 years old, Warsh was the youngest appointment in the history of the Federal Reserve. At the time, former Fed vice chairman Preston Martin said Warsh's nomination was "not a good idea" and that if he had a voice in the Senate, he would vote no. However, Warsh impressed colleagues, especially Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, with his insights and political savvy, and he has played a significant role in navigating the financial market turmoil of 2007 and 2008.
Wolfensohn, James D., Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
James David Wolfensohn was the ninth president of the World Bank Group.
In 1980, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, after it was rumored that he was a candidate to succeed Robert McNamara as president of the World Bank. After he was unsuccessful in this pursuit, he established his own investment firm, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., along with partners including Paul A. Volcker. Upon accepting his nomination to serve as president of the World Bank in 1995, Wolfensohn divested of his ownership interest in James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. The firm was later bought by Bankers Trust.
In 2005, upon stepping down as president of the World Bank, he founded Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a privately held firm that invests, and provides strategic consulting advice to governments and large corporations doing business, in emerging market economies.
Since 2006, Wolfensohn has also been the chairman of the International Advisory Board of Citigroup.
In 2009, he became a member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation.
Bilderberg Steering Committee
Chairman Etienne Davignon, Vice Chairman, Suez-Tractebel
Ackermann, Josef, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
Altman, Roger C., Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
Balsemão, Francisco Pinto, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister
Bernabè, Franco, CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A.
Castries, Henri de, Chairman and CEO, AXA
Cebrián, Juan Luis, CEO, PRISA
Clark, Edmund, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
Clarke, Kenneth, Member of Parliament
David, George A., Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.
Eldrup, Anders, CEO, DONG Energy A/S
Enders, Thomas, CEO, Airbus SAS
Halberstadt, Victor, Professor of Public Economics, Leiden University
Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
Kerr, John, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc; Member, the House of Lords
Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Koç, Mustafa V., Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
Kravis, Marie-Josée, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Mathews, Jessica T., President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Montbrial, Thierry de, President, French Institute for International Relations (IFRI)
Monti, Mario, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
Myklebust, Egil, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA
Nass, Matthias, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit
Ollila, Jorma, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Reisman, Heather, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
Scholten, Rudolf, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Sutherland, Peter D., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Taylor, J. Martin, Chairman, Syngenta International AG
Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
Vasella, Daniel L., Chairman, Novartis AG
Wallenberg, Jacob, Chairman, Investor AB
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