This 92-page special report, featuring interviews, news, and analysis, navigates the major challenges, prospects, and trends that will guide the sector over the coming years. It features insights from the leading decision makers in the sector and seeks to be a reference for those wanting impactful information on investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia.

We conducted more than 200 face-to-face interviews with Saudi Arabia’s business leaders and government representatives in preparation for this special 10th anniversary edition of The Business Year in Saudi Arabia. In partnership with the Federation of Saudi Chambers, we have compiled a comprehensive analysis of the burgeoning trends defining the economy of Saudi Arabia, with a strong focus on Vision 2030, the Gulf nation’s transformative blueprint for economic diversification. This over 300-page publication features interviews from every major sector of the economy, as well as a range of articles and analysis.

This 56-page special report, one of a series examining the resilience of GCC economies in the face of COVID-19 and produced in partnership with Parsons, casts an eye across key sectors of the economy during this period, including transformative technologies, resources, logistics, education, and investment, drawing on the words of the businesspeople we have spoken with in recent months. It aims to paint a picture of the resilience of Saudi Arabia at this crucial time, as well as one of the country's potential fortunes in the post-COVID-19 environment.

Saudi Arabia has in recent years committed large-scale investments in digitalizing its economy. In this special report, we delve deeper into these developments through the eyes of the business and political leaders who are leading the charge. This special report comes in a new series of online publications, focusing on a certain aspect or industry in one of our 35 global markets. Our reports are consumed by investors, analysts, and decision makers around the world. This 74-page report covers digital governance, financial technology, telecoms and cybersecurity, logistics, industry, and education.

Contrary to most places, Dubai is experiencing more of an acceleration of ongoing trends rather than total disruption at the macro-economic level. Led by DP World, those active within the Emirate's trade ecosystem continue to develop innovative, technology-driven solutions. The novel coronavirus outbreak brought more urgent necessity and faster adoption of such initiatives. This 27-page report features 27 conversations with leading voices throughout the network, such as DP World, Dubai South, DAFZA, Maersk, and Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, to build a clear picture of the state of the sector at this crucial time.

This publication was compiled over the course of several months of interviews in Saudi Arabia after the COVID-19 outbreak. The pace of internal reform in the Kingdom has been significant over the past three-five years, and in many cases the old, low-tech, and sclerotic public service that had so long been a feature of Saudi Arabia was vastly changed when the pandemic arrived in Riyadh. Nonetheless, this virus has challenged the modernizing bureaucracy in the desert at a magnitude that no other event, be it war or reform, has even come close to doing.

The Business Year's latest report on the Saudi economy, Special Report: Digital Kingdom—How COVID-19 Changed the Conversation in Saudi Arabia, examines how COVID-19 accelerated digitalization efforts across the public and private sectors and better helped the kingdom see beyond oil and gas. This 112-page special report contains interviews with top business leaders from across the economy, as well as a range of news and analysis.