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Meg O’Neill, top left, was the only Australian executive invited to a heavyweight meeting of US and Saudi Arabian officials. Getty
Donald Trump was beaming as he stood on a stage at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital. Dressed in a blue suit and cranberry-coloured tie, the US president was on his first scheduled trip abroad after being re-elected. Trump was attending the exclusive US-Saudi Investment Forum, and he was there to do deals, tremendous deals – deals that would Make America Great Again.
Travelling with him were entrepreneurs and visionaries who also happened to be some of the world’s most powerful business titans. Among them were Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Tesla’s Elon Musk, Amazon’s Andy Jassy and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Also present was Meg O’Neill, the 54-year-old chief executive of Woodside Energy.
Anne HylandCompanies editorAnne Hyland is the Financial Review’s companies editor. She’s a former deputy editor of Good Weekend and Asia correspondent for the AFR. Email Anne at ahyland@afr.com
