This interview was originally published in the GulfWire e-newsletter in February 2001. It was the result of an audience with then Crown Prince Abdullah during which Patrick W. Ryan and Dr. John Duke Anthony has an extended conversation with the future king.
When King Salman talks with President Barack Obama in their upcoming meeting, which is the Saudi king’s first White House visit as ruler, much of the attention will be on critical questions of regional security crisis management and bilateral defense issues. How to deal with conflicts besetting Yemen, Iraq and Syria, and emergence of post-nuclear deal Iran will top the leaders’ agenda.
In this interview originally published at SUSRIS.com, Patrick Ryan spoke with Dr. Hanan Edrees about the legacy of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
At a time when conversations about energy markets were focused on crude oil production freezes, pricing and bloated global inventories, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman grabbed the attention of oil industry watchers with news of a Saudi Aramco IPO of up to 5 percent.
Amid a magnificent welcoming from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman arrived in Cairo for a summit accompanied by a large delegation of Saudi ministers and officials on Thursday.
When President Barack Obama travels to Saudi Arabia this week there will be more on his agenda than the announced US-GCC Summit with talks about security cooperation, intensifying pressure on ISIS, addressing regional conflicts and de-escalating regional and sectarian tensions, as announced by the White House last month.
Paul Crompton's article in Al Arabiya today cited Patrick Ryan on the question of US-Saudi trade on the occasion of President Obama's summit meeting in Riyadh.
It may be a case of, “Gentlemen, we have run out of money; it’s time to start thinking,” variously attributed to Winston Churchill and physicist Ernest Rutherford, but the need to reform Saudi Arabia’s oil-dependent economy has actually been the subject of “thinking” for decades.
Al Arabiya's article on the recent purchase of a $3.5 billion stake in Uber included insights from Patrick W. Ryan.
Patrick Ryan is a regular contributor to Al Arabiya English. Today he wrote on the prospects for US-Saudi business relations in view of the upcoming visit of Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed.