Paul Ross is a Yorkshireman by birth and temperament, shaped by candlelit evenings during Britain’s three-day week and an early fascination with history, travel, and how other people live. His professional life led him into global engineering and business development, a career that inadvertently funded decades of travel to places most guidebooks politely ignore.

Saudi Arabia first entered Paul’s life in the mid 1990s through work, but his curiosity quickly replaced commercial purpose. What began as a routine market visit became a long-running relationship with the often misunderstood country. Over many years, Paul travelled extensively across the Kingdom, not as a tourist, but as an observer with time to listen, get lost, and be corrected.