Editing Bilderberg Meeting (section)

== Participants ==
{{Main|List of Bilderberg participants}}
The participants are between 120 and 150 people, including [[political leaders]], experts from [[Private industry|industry]], [[finance]], [[NATO]], [[academia]] and the [[media (communication)|media]].<ref name="something"/> About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; one third from [[politics]] and [[government]] and the rest from other fields.<ref name="something"/><ref name="BBC News Magazine 2011" /> Historically, attendee lists have been weighted toward bankers, politicians, directors of large businesses<ref name="Moorehead 1977">{{cite news |title=An exclusive club, perhaps without power, but certainly with influence: The Bilderberg group |author=Moorehead, Caroline |work=The Times |location =London |date=18 April 1977}}</ref> and board members from large publicly traded corporations, including [[Wallenberg family|Wallenberg]]-owned conglomerate holding company [[Investor AB]] and other Wallenberg-owned multinationals such as [[Ericsson]] and [[ABB]], [[IBM]], [[Xerox]], [[Royal Dutch Shell]], [[Nokia]] and [[Daimler AG|Daimler]].<ref name="prweb97" /> Heads of state, including former [[Monarchy of Spain|King]] [[Juan Carlos I of Spain]] and former [[Monarchy of the Netherlands|Queen]] [[Beatrix of the Netherlands]], have attended meetings.<ref name="prweb97">{{cite press release |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430211149/http://www.prnewswire.de/cgi/release?id=42594 |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url=http://www.prnewswire.de/cgi/release?id=42594 |title=Bilderberg Meeting of 1997 Assembles |date=13 June 1997 |publisher=[[PR Newswire]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Bilderberg group |author=Oliver, Mark |date=4 June 2004 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/04/netnotes.markoliver |location=London}}</ref>  A source connected to the group told ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' in 2013 that others, whose names are not publicly issued, sometimes turn up "just for the day" at the group's meetings.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10102168/Bilderberg-Group-No-conspiracy-just-the-most-influential-group-in-the-world.html "Bilderberg Group? No conspiracy, just the most influential group in the world"]. ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London). 6 June 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.</ref>

The Swedish banker and industrialist [[Marcus Wallenberg Jr.]] was a member of the steering committee and attended the meeting twenty-two times from the 1950s to 1981, a year prior to his death. His grandson [[Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956)|Marcus Wallenberg]] has attended it eight times and his other grandson, [[Jacob Wallenberg]], seventeen times.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Karl |first1=Hellberg |title=Bilderberggruppen och Wallenberg bakom selekteringen av svenskt regeringsstyre sedan 1950-talet |url=https://newsvoice.se/2018/08/bilderberggruppen-wallenberg-svenska-regeringar/ |website=Newsvoice|date=11 August 2018 }}</ref>