Jens Stoltenberg has been appointed as a co-chairman, according to the organization’s website Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who was at the helm the bloc for the past decade, has officially joined the secretive Bilderberg Group as co-chairman of the annual closed-door meetings involving the world’s most powerful and wealthy individuals. The elite club was founded in 1954, officially to improve dialogue between Europe and the US. Every year, some 130 political leaders and