Assorted politicians, monarchs, bankers, arms dealers, spooks, CEOs, media execs and lizard-people meet in Copenhagen today for the annual Bilderberg conference. Here is a selected guest list:

Marcus Agius – Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group; former Group Chairman, Barclays

Keith Alexander – Former Commander, U.S. Cyber Command; Former Director, National Security Agency

Roger Altman – Executive Chairman, Evercore

Edward Balls – Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

Ben van Beurden – CEO, Royal Dutch Shell

Philip Breedlove – Four star US general; Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Benoit Coeuré – Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

Sherard Cowper-Coles – Senior Adviser to the Group Chairman and Group CEO, HSBC Holdings plc

Mathias Döpfner – CEO, Axel Springer SE

Robert Dudley- Group Chief Executive, BP plc

Thomas Enders – CEO, Airbus Group

Douglas Flint – Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc

Justine Greening – Secretary of State for International Development

Kenneth Jacobs – Chairman and CEO, Lazard

Henry Kissinger – Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

Christine Lagarde – Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Peter Mandelson – Chairman, Global Counsel LLP

John Micklethwait – Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

George Osborne – George Chancellor of the Exchequer

John Sawers – Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Eric Schmidt – Executive Chairman, Google Inc.

H.M. the Queen of Spain

Martin Wolf – Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

Robert Zoellick – Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group

What could the head of MI6, the former director of the NSA, the boss of Google and Justine Greening be talking about?