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Richard Attias: ‘I feel more welcome here than in France’

Over a Parisian-length lunch in Riyadh, Richard Attias, CEO of the FII Institute, gives Frank Kane a taster of next week’s record-breaking investment gathering in Saudi Arabia – and explains the failure of leadership in today’s polarised world

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Attias, left, tells Kane that the Future Investment Initiative summit has evolved since the first one in 2017

Just for a moment in Les Deux Magots in Riyadh, Richard Attias and I forget we are in the Saudi capital and not in the more illustrious restaurant of the same name in Paris.

“A glass of wine, perhaps?” I suggest.

“No, I’m just rather busy th...