Which isn’t surprising. The country’s home to Al-Ghawar, the world’s largest oil field which pumps out a stonking 5 million barrels of crude oil per day. Ironically (or perhaps fortunately?) it lies under the world’s largest single stretch of sand, the Rub’ al-Khali or “Empty Quarter” which covers over a quarter of the country.
The country has some other more surprising “world’s largest” facts: it’s the world’s second largest country without any major permanent water sources and the world’s twelfth largest country overall.
All of which gives me pause for thought. Part of CSR and the business sustainability agenda is to create robust and socially inclusive economies. Saudi Arabia’s economy is pretty well single industry and, to put it delicately, it’s not renowned for being particularly socially inclusive.
So when I “met” Bushra Azhar on Twitter, founder of Middle Eastern business sustainability consultancy Good Business Sense and based in Saudi Arabia … well, I just had to get hold of her and ask her all about it!
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