Sameer Hashmi
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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Hello and welcome to Business Daily on BBC World Service.
I'm Samir Hashmi in Riyadh.
Today we are looking at the sweeping economic changes the kingdom has undergone since the launch of Vision 2030 nearly a decade ago.
A reform drive aimed at reducing its dependence on oil.
Some of those bets are now beginning to pay off, with a handful of sectors emerging as meaningful contributors to non-oil revenues.
But those gains are now being tested as the Iran war adds a new layer of risk.
That's all coming up on Business Daily from the BBC.
A young Saudi royal being welcomed on the world stage.
It's August 2015.
Mohammed bin Salman has been appointed Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia at the age of 30.
And this is one of his first overseas visits.
He's walking the red carpet in Amman, welcomed by Jordan's King Abdullah, a military band playing, royal guards standing to attention.
At the time, few outside the region knew much about him.
Within a few years, this young prince would become crown prince of Saudi Arabia and the kingdom's de facto ruler.
By the time he became Crown Prince in 2017, he had already pitched a confident economic vision for Saudi Arabia, known as Vision 2030, an ambitious plan to transform the country's economy.
In a television interview, he explained what he saw as Saudi Arabia's core economic problem.
This is very dangerous.
We have a state of oil addiction.
The diagnosis became the foundation of Vision 2030, an economic strategy to reduce Saudi Arabia's dependence on oil and reshape Saudi society itself.
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter.
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