Here’s a list of the 29 participants from the U.S.:
Rogr Altman, Exec Chrm, Evercore
Sam Altman, Pres, Y Combinator
Anne Applebaum, Columnist, Wash. Post, Dir. of the Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute
Wm J Burns, Pres., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
David M Cote, Chrm & CEO, Honeywell [my brother recently retired from Honeywell in Albuqueraue]
Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News
Niall Ferguson, Prof. of History, Harvard Univ
Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator
Mellody Hobson, Pres., Ariel Investment, LLC
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder & Exec Chrm, Linkedin
Kenneth M Jacobs, Chrm & CEO, Lazard
James A Johnson, Chrm, Johnson Capital Partners
Vernon E Jordan, Jr., Senior Manag. Dir., Lazard Freres & Co. LLC
Alex Karp, CEO, Palantir Technologies
Henry Kissinger, Chrm, Kissinger Associates
Klaus Kleinfeld, Chrm & CEO, Alcoa
Henry R Kravis, Co-Chm & Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Marie-Josee Kravis, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Divesh Makan, CEO, OCONIQ Capital
Scott Malcomson, Author; Pres., Monere Ltd.
Megan McArdle, Columnist, Bloomberg View
John Micklethwait, Ed. in chief, Bloomberg LP
Craig J. Mundie, Principal, Mundie & Assoc.
Charles A Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Peggy Noonan, Author, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
David Petraeus, Chrm, KKR Global Institute
Robert E Rubin, Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations
Eric E Schmidt, Exec Chrm, Alphabet Inc.
Peter Thiel, Pres., Thiel Capital
Looks like I missed the cut again this year.
Note: Bat Guano, again not invited.