For a notoriously camera-shy conference, a city-centre location was always
going to be a challenge. Of course, some of the delegates relished the attention,
like the catwalk king of Bilderberg, Björn Wahlroos.
Björn is chairman of the huge Finnish finance company the Sampo Group, and
Bilderberg's best dressed man by a country mile. Those butterscotch slacks are
nothing short of a triumph, and he knows it. A stickler for detail, Björn had his
personal assistant spend the entire night getting the crimping right in that
hanky. Worth every minute.
The only person at this year’s Bilderberg who came close to Björn in the style
stakes was Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF.
Alexander is a world expert in privacy (and how to rid the world of it), and it’s
likely he had plenty to say during the conference discussion on the subject:
“Does privacy exist?” Unfortunately I don’t know what he said, because the
discussion was private.
This year, we got to witness a breakaway privacy chat that took place on the
hotel patio ...
by Charlie Skelton with photographs by Hannah Borno
read full article at The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/bilderberg-2014-roundup-privacy-transparency-and-birkin-bags?CMP=twt_gu
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