WEF/Annual Meeting/1984
The 1984 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, still known as the European Management Forum, was held in Davos, Switzerland in February 1984.
Own words
By 1984, the Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders (IGWEL) had already become a useful place for leaders to launch and test new ideas. Many initiatives that were later officially undertaken by international organizations or governments were in fact "born" in Davos.[2]
The first steps to organize the UN Conference on Environment and Development, known as "The Earth Summit", that was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, were also taken at an IGWEL.[2]
This year marked the beginning of what would quickly become a very strong relationship between the European Management Forum and India.[3]
Known Participants
23 of the 46 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Raymond Barre | French PM, single Bilderberger |
| Lloyd Bentsen | 5 time Bilderberger US Treasury Secretary |
| Alden Clausen | President of the World Bank from 1981 to 1986, where he scaled up forced structural adjustment programs on lending counties, and attended 2 Bilderberg meeting. Also president and CEO of Bank of America. |
| Kenneth Dam | Economist who was US Deputy Secretary of State, with a heavy Bilderberg habit. |
| Arthur Dunkel | Director-General of the World Trade Organization for over 12 years. 5 Bilderbergs |
| Kurt Furgler | President of Switzerland. 3 Bilderbergs, from 1970 to 1980. Wanted a strong central government and integration with the European Union. |
| Pieter Korteweg | Dutch neoliberal economist and civil servant, Bilderberg Steering committee in the 1990s when he attended 7 Bilderbergs |
| Graf Otto Lambsdorff | Attended the 1980 and 1984 Bilderbergs as West Germany/Federal Minister of Economics. |
| Emile van Lennep | Secretary-General of the OECD for 15 years. Poly Bilderberg |
| Fritz Leutwiler | "I have no use for politicians" |
| Robert Lighthizer | Covington & Burling lawyer. U.S. Trade Representative in the First Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, where he he was central in increasing tariffs and other trade barriers on China. First Bilderberg in 2024 where one of the subjects was "China". Similar role in Trump 2.0. |
| Allan MacEachen | Both Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Canada/President of the Privy Council twice. Attended Bilderberg/1983. |
| Sylvia Ostry | Quad Bilderberg Canadian economist and government advisor |
| Jean-Claude Paye | French civil servant who attended 2 Bilderberg meetings as Secretary-General of the OECD. President of Le Siècle. |
| Raymond Probst | Swiss Ambassador to Washington. Attended 1983 Bilderberg as one of the top civil servants in the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs. |
| Gerhard Schmidt | German business executive who attended the 1980 Bilderberg, Doyen of the German foundation landscape. |
| Klaus Schwab | German economist, Bilderberg Steering committee, World Economic Forum Board of Trustees |
| Mário Soares | Portuguese politician |
| Anthony Solomon | Bilderberger, Group of Thirty, Trilateral Commission |
| Norman Tebbit | UK Conservative politician |
| Hans Tietmeyer | President of the German Bundesbank |
| Pierre Trudeau | Triple Bilderberger Canadian politician and father of the Trudeau clan. |
| Turgut Özal | 1990s Turkish president covertly assassinated by deep state forces |
