Dubai (CNN Business)Saudi Arabia’s investment conference this week was until recently the hottest ticket in business and finance.
Now the program has been stripped of names and the list of speakers, once a who’s who of global business, has been heavily revised.
Most of the top global CEOs and finance officials who were due to participate in the Future Investment Initiative, dubbed “Davos in the desert,” pulled out in the past 10 days following the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2.
