Editing Bilderberg Meeting (section)

== Chairmen of the Steering Committee ==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!colspan=3|Chairmen of the Steering <br /> Committee of the Bilderberg Meetings
!Tenure as Chairman
!Country
!Office(s)
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Independent (politician)}};"|
| [[File:Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld 1976.jpg|120px|Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]]
| [[Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld]] <br /> <small>(1911–2004)</small>
| 29 May 1954 – 29 September 1976 <br /> ({{Age in years and days|1954|05|29|1976|09|29}}) <br /><ref name="ADH">{{cite news|publisher=Facts on File World News Digest|date=14 May 1977 |title=Twenty-fifth Bilderberg meeting held in St joseph MO}}</ref>
| Netherlands
| [[List of Dutch consorts|Prince consort of the Netherlands]] <br /> (1948–1980) <br /> [[Inspector general]] of the [[Armed forces of the Netherlands]] <br /> (1970–1976) <br /> [[Inspector general]] of the [[Royal Netherlands Air Force]] <br /> (1953–1970) <br /> [[Inspector general]] of the [[Royal Netherlands Navy]] <br /> (1946–1970) <br /> [[Inspector general]] of the [[Royal Netherlands Army]] <br /> (1945–1970) <br /> [[Commander-in-chief]] of the [[Armed forces of the Netherlands]] <br /> (1944–1945)
|-
! style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| [[File:Lord Alec Douglas-Home Allan Warren.jpg|120px|Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel]]
| [[Alec Douglas-Home|Alec Douglas-Home, <br /> Baron Home of the Hirsel]] <br /> <small>(1903–1995)</small>
| 22 April 1977 – 20 April 1980 <br /> ({{Age in years and days|1977|04|22|1980|04|20}}) <br /><ref name="ADH" />
| United Kingdom
| [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] <br /> (1963–1964) <br /> [[Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)|Leader of the Conservative Party]] <br /> (1963–1965) <br /> [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] <br /> (1960–1963, 1970–1974) <br /> [[Lord President of the Council]] <br /> (1957, 1959–1960) <br /> [[Leader of the House of Lords]] <br /> (1957–1960) <br /> [[Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations]] <br /> (1955–1960) <br /> [[House of Lords|Member of the House of Lords]] <br /> (1951–1963, 1974–1995) <br /> [[House of Commons|Member of Parliament]] <br /> (1931–1945, 1950–1951, 1963–1974)
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Free Democratic Party (Germany)}};"|
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-047-20, Walter Scheel.jpg|120px|Walter Scheel]]
| [[Walter Scheel]] <br /> <small>(1919–2016)</small>
| 15 May 1981 – 12 May 1985 <br /> ({{Age in years and days|1981|05|15|1985|05|12}}) <br /><ref>{{cite web|title=Bilderberg Meetings Conference Report 1981|url=http://fr.scribd.com/doc/172648498/Bilderberg-Meetings-Conference-Report-1981}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bilderberg Meetings Conference Report 1985|url=http://fr.scribd.com/doc/172649225/Bilderberg-Meetings-Conference-Report-1985}}</ref>
| Germany
| [[President of Germany]] <br /> (1974–1979) <br /> (Acting) [[Chancellor of Germany]] <br /> (1974) <br /> [[Vice-Chancellor of Germany|Vice-Chancellor]] <br /> (1969–1974) <br /> [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Germany)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] <br /> (1969–1974) <br /> [[Free Democratic Party (Germany)#Leadership|Leader of the Free Democratic Party]] <br /> (1968–1974) <br /> [[Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development|Minister of Economic Cooperation]] <br /> (1961–1969) <br /> [[Member of the European Parliament]] <br /> (1956–1961) <br /> [[Bundestag|Member of the Bundestag]] <br /> (1953–1974)
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Independent (politician)}};"|
|
| [[Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden]] <br /> <small>(1907–2005)</small>
| 25 April 1986 – 14 May 1989 <br /> ({{Age in years and days|1986|04|25|1989|05|14}}) <br /><ref name="whoswho99">{{cite book |title=Who's Who |year=1999|title-link=Who's Who (UK)}}</ref>
| United Kingdom
| [[House of Lords|Member of the House of Lords]] <br /> (1977–2005)
|-
! style="background-Color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| [[File:Peter Carington 1984.jpg|120px|Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington]]
| [[Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington]] <br /> <small>(1919–2018)</small>
| 11 May 1990 – 17 May 1998 <br /> ({{Age in years and days|1990|05|11|1998|05|17}}) <br /><ref name="rockefeller" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Bilderberg Meetings Conference Report 1990|url=http://fr.scribd.com/doc/172343239/Bilderberg-Meetings-Conference-Report-1990}}</ref>
| United Kingdom
| [[Secretary General of NATO]] <br /> (1984–1988) <br /> [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] <br /> (1979–1982) <br /> [[Department of Energy (United Kingdom)|Secretary of State for Energy]] <br /> (1974) <br /> [[Chairman of the Conservative Party]] <br /> (1972–1974) <br /> [[Secretary of State for Defence]] <br /> (1970–1974) <br /> [[Leader of the House of Lords]] <br /> (1963–1964) <br /> [[Minister without portfolio]] <br /> (1963–1964) <br /> [[List of the First Lords of the Admiralty|First Lord of the Admiralty]] <br /> (1959–1963) <br /> [[List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Australia|High Commissioner to Australia]] <br /> (1956–1959) <br /> [[House of Lords|Member of the House of Lords]] <br /> (1941–2018)
|-
! style="background-Color:{{party color|Humanist Democratic Centre}};"|
| [[File:Etienne Davignon1.jpg|120px|Étienne Davignon, Viscount Davignon]]
| [[Étienne Davignon|Étienne Davignon, Viscount Davignon]] <br /> <small>(born 1932)</small>
| 3 June 1999 – 12 June 2011 <br /> ({{Age in years and days|1999|06|03|2011|06|12}}) <br /><ref name="bbc05" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Booklet of the 1999 annual conference|url=http://www.schnews.org.uk/bilderberg/introduction.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000302093537/http://www.schnews.org.uk/bilderberg/introduction.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2000-03-02|website=Schnews}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Final List of Participants of the 2011 Bilderberg annual conference |url=https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants_2011.html |website=Official website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828210925/http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants_2011.html |archive-date=28 August 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref>
| Belgium
| [[European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship|European Commissioner for Industrial Affairs]] and [[European Commissioner for Energy|Energy]] <br /> (1981–1985) <br /> [[European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services|European Commissioner for Internal Market]], <br /> [[European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud|Customs Union]] and [[European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship|Industrial Affairs]] <br /> (1977–1981)
|-
! style="background:{{party color|Independent (politician)}};"|
| [[File:Henri de Castries.jpg|120px|Henri de Castries, 5th Count of Castries]]
| [[Henri de Castries|Henri de Castries, 5th Count of Castries]] <br /> <small>(born 1954)</small>
| 31 May 2012 – 2019 <br /> (7 years) <br /><ref>{{cite web|title=Final List of Participants of the 2012 Bilderberg annual conference|url=https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2012.html|publisher=Bilderberg Meetings|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726214724/http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2012.html|archive-date=26 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
| France
| Chairman and [[CEO]] of [[AXA]] (2000–2016)
|}