Bilderberg Group
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The Bilderberg Group is an annual private conference that brings together 120 to 150 influential people from Europe and North America, including political leaders, business executives, financial experts, academics, and journalists. It matters because the closed-door nature of these high-level meetings and the concentration of powerful decision-makers in one room raise questions about transparency and influence in global affairs.
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The Bilderberg Meeting (also known as the Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg Conference or Bilderberg Club) is an annual off-the-record forum established in 1954 to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. The group's agenda, originally to prevent another world war, is now defined as bolstering a consensus around free market Western capitalism and its interests around the globe. Participants include political leaders, experts, captains of industry, finance, and academia, numbering between 120 and 150.
Attendees are entitled to use information gained at meetings, but not attribute it to a named speaker—an arrangement, called the Chatham House Rule, that the club says is meant to encourage candid debate while maintaining privacy. Critics from a wide range of viewpoints have called it into question, and it has drawn conspiracy theories from both the left and right.