ransomnote: I skimmed the article and caught the names in the paragraph headers:
Bill Gates
Thomas Pritzker, Hyatt Hotels, Pritzker Organization
Mortimer Zuckerman, co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder
Cecile de Jongh, former first lady of the U.S. Virgin Islands
Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black
Ehud Barak, former Israeli prime minister
Leon Botstein, president of Bard College
William Burns, CIA director
Noam Chomsky
Terje Rød-Larsen, noted ex-diplomat
Joshua Cooper Ramo, a FedEx board member
Ariane de Rothschild, chairwoman of Edmond de Rothschild Group
Kathryn Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs general counsel
Lawrence Summers ex-treasury secretary and Harvard president (previously identified, just more info)
Peter Thiel
Jes Staley, Barclays (banker)
That list needs a correction.
Joshua Cooper Ramo is not with FedEx. He is/was vice chairman and co-chief executive of Kissinger Associates, the consulting firm of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He is also a non-fiction author.
Prior to his work with Barclays, Jes Staley was the CEO of the Investment Bank for JPM Chase. By the way, JES is his nickname, short for “James Edward Staley.”
I am not really surprised. I think at one time he harbored some fantasy of helping to usher in the antichrist - or perhaps even being the man of perdition.
He should have stuck with linguistics. (Unfortunately, those things can all be related.)