Chairman of scandal-hit Man City has worked with Trump and Macron as part of UAE elite

GENEVA: Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of the scandal-plagued Manchester City soccer club, sat with Donald Trump in Davos this year, signing on to the US President’s Board of Peace on behalf of the United Arab Emirates government. He was with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles in June at a signing ceremony for a business summit. Al Mubarak, 50, also is a UAE special envoy to China, and welcomed Xi Jinping to the club when the Chinese leader visited England in 2015. Why the head of an English soccer club — albeit one of the wealthiest, most…