Who Showed Up at the Saudi Investment Summit
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Participants take their seats in the auditorium on the opening day of the Future Investment Initiative conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, on Oct. 23.
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Ken Moelis showed up.
The founder and chief of his eponymous investment bank traveled to Riyadh to extol the virtues of friendship. He stood out as many of the titans of U.S. finance sat out the kingdom’s signature investment summit amid international outrage over the killing of government critic Jamal Khashoggi. As the conference kicked off Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his lawmakers he rejected the Saudis’ explanations for the Washington Post columnist’s death in their consulate in Istanbul.