Country Report
Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030”, introduced in 2016, reinterprets the role of external cultural policy (ECP) and sees a stronger investment in arts and culture. The programmes and institutions created as part of Vision 2030 complement the country's strongly education-oriented foreign cultural policy. These include several schools abroad and extensive scholarship programmes. However, Saudi Arabia has also encountered distrust abroad, particularly because of the country’s human rights record and recent scandals attributed to its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto leader.
