2025 Bilderberg Conference
The 2025 Bilderberg Conference was held between June 12–June 15, 2025 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, Sweden. The 2025 meeting was the 71st edition of the event. A Bilderberg Group press release listed 121 participants from 23 countries.
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 prominent politicians, CEOs, national security experts, academics and journalists.
Bilderberg conferences operate under the Chatham House Rule, meaning that participants are sworn to secrecy and cannot disclose the identity or affiliation of any particular speaker. As a result, media are not invited and delegates rarely speak about what was discussed.
Permits for two public demonstrations against the meeting were requested, one of which, a march from the Norrmalm Square to the Grand Hôtel, was planned for June 14.
Agenda
The key topics for discussion were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. These topics included:- Transatlantic Relationship
- Ukraine
- Economy of [the United States|US Economy]
- Europe
- Middle East
- Authoritarian Axis
- Defence Innovation and Resilience
- AI, Deterrence and National Security
- Proliferation
- Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Minerals
- Depopulation and Migration
Participants
A list of 121 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. Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson attended the meeting despite his name not appearing on the published participant list.Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
European Union (International)
- Maria Luís Albuquerque
- Magnus Brunner
- Nadia Calviño
- Paschal Donohoe
- Wopke Hoekstra
- Michael McGrath
- Maroš Šefčovič
- Sophie Wilmès
Finland
France
- Gabriel Attal
- Patricia Barbizet
- Patrice Caine
- Henri de Castries
- Jean Lemierre
- Arthur Mensch
- Édouard Philippe
- Patrick Pouyanné
- Nicolas Roche
- Laurent Toulemon
- Luis Vassy
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
NATO (International)
Netherlands
Norway
Other (International)
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
- Magdalena Andersson
- Ebba Busch
- Daniel Ek
- Börje Ekholm
- Micael Johansson
- Martin Lundstedt
- Jacob Wallenberg
- Marcus Wallenberg
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
- Stacey Abrams
- Anne Applebaum
- James H. Baker
- Albert Bourla
- Jack Clark
- Kate Crawford
- Christopher Donahue
- Nicholas N. Eberstadt
- Jane Fraser
- Thomas L. Friedman
- Kevin Harrington
- Rebeccah Heinrichs
- Mellody Hobson
- Alex Karp
- Stephen Kotkin
- Michael Kratsios
- Henry R. Kravis
- Robert Lighthizer
- John Micklethwait
- Satya Nadella
- Samuel Paparo
- Brian Schimpf
- Eric E. Schmidt
- Jason Smith
- Mustafa Suleyman
- Lawrence Summers
- Peter Thiel
- Fareed Zakaria