Russian wealth fund chief meets Saudi Arabian delegation – Riyadh sauce

MOSCOW – Russian sovereign wealth fund chief Kiril Dmitriev met with the US delegation in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to focus on strengthening relations and increasing economic cooperation, a source in Riyadh told Reuters.

The conference involving Dmitriev is the first confirmation that a former US-educated Goldman Sachs banker will be involved in consultations with the United States.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet Saudi Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, alongside Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz and White House Middle Eastern envoy Steve Witkov.

Dmitriev, 49, is an investment banker who studied at Harvard and Stanford in the 1990s. He worked for US companies Goldman Sachs and McKinsey before returning to Moscow.

Dmitriev was appointed Putin after running the Delta Equity Partner, a US capital-backed private equity company in Russia, and was established in 2011 to promote foreign investment in Russia.

He made the role that led to the OPEC oil price contract, which led to early contacts with Moscow and Trump’s team when Trump was first elected president in 2016. It’s done.

Dmitriev met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman several times.

Saudi Arabia has been mentioned by both sides as a possible venue for the planned Putin Trump Summit.

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