John Rossant is Founder and Chairman of the NewCities Foundation, a major global non-profit network devoted to improving the quality of life and work in 21st century cities. He is also CEO of CoMotion Inc. , the Los Angeles-based events and media group which organizes the big CoMotion LA conference on the future of urban mobility. John Rossant was previously Executive Chairman of Geneva-based PublicisLive, the global events management company responsible for the production of the world’s most prestigious international conferences such as the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.