Top CEOs heading to Saudi Arabia’s ‘MAGA in the Desert’ conference to boost investing in the US

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Top US corporate titans including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Fink are heading to Saudi Arabia next week for an investor conference — even as President Trump himself flies to the oil-rich kingdom to meet with regional heads of state, The Post has learned.

The Saudi-US Investment Forum — which one insider branded “MAGA in the Desert” — will be held on May 13. Other guests will include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg and David Sacks, the White House czar for AI and crypto.

Government officials set to beat the drum for investing in the US include Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, sources told The Post.

“This is going to be MAGA in the desert. It is ultimately about creating jobs in the US,” said one source, who speculated that the value of the money-spinning investment contracts could be even higher than that sum.

Other business bigwigs including ex-Google financial chief Ruth Porat, Palantir CEO Alex Karp and PIMCO’s Emmanuel Roman will take part in panels and roundtable discussions, but the president himself is not currently set to appear at the event.

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Here are the 32 individuals the White House said joined President Trump’s lunch with Saudi officials.

Elon Musk
Stephen Schwarzman - CEO of the Blackstone Group
Larry Fink - CEO of BlackRock
Reid Hoffman - Cofounder of LinkedIn
Ben Horowitz - Co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
Sam Altman - CEO of OpenAI
Jenny Johnson - CEO of Franklin Templeton Investment
Arvind Krishna - CEO of IBM
Jane Fraser - CEO of CitiGroup
Michael O’Grady - CEO of wealth management company Northern Trust
Kelly Ortberg - CEO of Boeing
Andy Jassy - CEO of Amazon
Jensen Huang - CEO of Nvidia
Alex Karp - Karp is the CEO of Palantir
Lorenzo Simonelli - CEO of Baker Hughes
Jeff Miller - CEO of Haliburton
Olivier Le Peuch - CEO of Schlumberger
Dina Powell - Vice chairman of BDT & MSD Partners
Ray Dalio - Founded Bridgewater Associates
Marcelo Claure - Shein entrepreneur
Travis Kalanick - Uber founder
Neil Blue - Chairman of General Atomics
Jon Ballis - Services chairman of Kirkland & Ellis
Jake Silverstein - CEO of Enfield Investment Partners
Tim Sweeney - CEO of Epic Games
Kathy Warden - CEO of Northrup Grumman
James Quincey - CEO of Coca-Cola
Dara Khosrowshahi - CEO of Uber
Francis Suarez - Mayor of Miami
William Oplinger - CEO of Alcola
William Meaney - CEO of Iron Mountain