Global executive picks LA as world center for urban mobility
LOS ANGELES - John Rossant is founder and chairman of the nonprofit NewCities foundation and creator of LA CoMotion, a big urban mobility conference and festival that's attracting an international crowd to the city Nov. 15-19.
A former journalist who has organized and produced conferences around the world, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Rossant, 62, intends to make LA CoMotion a world-scale annual event. He recently moved with his family from New York to Los Angeles.
Family influence: I grew up in Manhattan. My father was a journalist at the New York Times.
