The King Abdullah Financial District, a business district in Riyadh that houses the regional headquarters of Deloitte, the British consulting giant. (Credit: AFP)
Every Saturday, the last day of the weekend in Saudi Arabia, Ronan Kelly leaves his family in Doha for a five-hour drive to Riyadh, where he recently established a new office for Rathmore, his consultancy specializing in building and public works (BTP).Although he would prefer to relocate his family to the Saudi capital, the international schools there are fully booked. In Riyadh, Kelly shares a villa with two other Western consultants in a similar situation, before returning to Qatar on Thursday evenings.“Everyone left Doha because there was no more work after the World Cup,” Kelly explained. “In Dubai, they are constructing a new The Palm [a collection of luxury peninsulas shaped like a giant palm tree, twice the size of the original].”“But nothing compares to the scale of the projects in Saudi Arabia,” he said.Amidst the Vision 2030...
Every Saturday, the last day of the weekend in Saudi Arabia, Ronan Kelly leaves his family in Doha for a five-hour drive to Riyadh, where he recently established a new office for Rathmore, his consultancy specializing in building and public works (BTP).Although he would prefer to relocate his family to the Saudi capital, the international schools there are fully booked. In Riyadh, Kelly shares a villa with two other Western consultants in a similar situation, before returning to Qatar on Thursday evenings.“Everyone left Doha because there was no more work after the World Cup,” Kelly explained. “In Dubai, they are constructing a new The Palm [a collection of luxury peninsulas shaped like a giant palm tree, twice the size of the original].”“But nothing compares to the scale of the projects in Saudi Arabia,” he said.Amidst the...
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