Jared Kushner
Jared Kushner is an American businessman and investor who served as Senior Advisor to the President from 2017 to 2021 during Donald Trump's first administration. He is the founder and principal of Affinity Partners, a Miami-based private equity firm that has raised billions from sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Kushner is best known for his role in brokering the 2020 Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and several Arab states, and he returned to an informal advisory role in the second Trump administration, focusing on Middle East diplomacy.
“One big change from prior years is the absence of politicians. No senators, members of Congress, or Cabinet secretaries. The closest would be Jared Kushner or former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.”
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