John Rossant
| John Rossant | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 29, 1955 New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Occupation | Chairman |
| Employer | New Cities Foundation |
| Spouse(s) | Antonella Caruso |
| Children | Jordan, Matteo, and Alexandre |
| Parent(s) | Murray Rossant, Naima Landman |
| Relatives | James Rossant, Juliette Rossant, Susie Orbach, Colette Rossant |
John Rossant (born January 29, 1955) is the founder and Chairman of the New Cities Foundation, one of the leading organizations looking at the future of the urban world. He is also the Managing Partner of Rossant & Partners LLC., the global advisory firm based in New York and Paris.
Rossant was born and brought up in New York City, the second son Murray Rossant and Naima Landman. His father was a journalist, who worked for Business Week, served on the Editorial Board on the New York Times, and later headed the progressive public policy group, the Twentieth Century Fund (now known as The Century Foundation).
After graduating from Collegiate School on New York’s Upper West Side in 1972, he was admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he achieved a BA (Hons) in 1977. Interested in the Middle East and Classical Arabic, he obtained a CASA postgraduate scholarship to study at the American University of Cairo in Egypt, completing his course in 1978.
On returning to New York from Egypt, he became a journalist: his first full-time job was as the Riyadh-based correspondent of Arab News, the English-language daily newspaper in Saudi Arabia, from 1979 to 1981. This was a particularly turbulent period in the Middle East which saw the Second Oil Shock and the 1979 assault by Islamist extremists on the Great Mosque of Mecca – both events covered extensively by Rossant. Rossant returned to the US, where he helped found a newsletter on the global energy market, Petroleum Information International, before joining the staff of BusinessWeek in 1983. In 1984, he was then posted to Paris as BusinessWeek correspondent, where he remained until 1989, when he moved to Italy as BusinessWeek's Rome Bureau Chief and Middle Eastern Correspondent. After spending a decade in the Italian capital, he returned to Paris in 1999 as BusinessWeek's European Editor, managing the correspondents and support staff of the magazine’s four Europe-based news bureaus until 2005.
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