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    Saudi Arabia came to L.A. seeking deals to build its post-oil future

    by Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times May 03, 2023 4 minutes
    Faisal Alibrahim, Saudi Arabia’ s minister of economy and planning, right, with Kevin Klowden, chief global strategist at the Milken Institute.

    One simple metric for measuring the Saudi government's commitment to transforming the oil kingdom into a high-tech mecca might be the size of the delegation at this year's Milken Institute Global Conference.

    There were no fewer than four public officials and three prominent business people from the Middle Eastern country featured on panels at the Beverly Hilton confab, the annual investment conference that draws some 3,500 participants and ended Wednesday.

    Kristin Smith Diwan, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, said that while the Saudi elite remain skeptical of American political leadership after a prolonged period of tense relations between the

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