Strabag (Austria's leading construction company) on 18 June 2010. At the same time he was to become chairman of the board of trustees of the private foundation established by Strabag's chairman, Hans Peter Haselsteiner. In an article about Western leaders working for authoritarian regimes, Associated Press reported that Gusenbauer works as a consultant to Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev. In September 2013, he became an advisor to Serbian deputy prime minister and leader of the Serbian Progressive Party Aleksandar Vucic. In 2018, reports surfaced claiming that Gusenbauer had met with members of Congress in Washington as part of a 2013 lobbying campaign orchestrated by Paul Manafort on behalf of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Other positions include: Citigroup, member of the European Advisory Board CUDOS Capital AG, chairman of the supervisory board Equitas Capital, member of the board and chairman of European Funds (since 2009) Gabriel Resources, member of the board of directors (Member of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee) Haselsteiner Familien-Privatstiftung, chairman RHI AG, member of the supervisory board (since 2013) Wartenfels Privatstiftung, chairman of the board Non-profit organizations From 2009 to 2011, Gusenbauer was the first Leitner Global Fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York. Other positions include: Austrian Society for China Studies (ÖGCF), president of the board of trustees Austrian-Spanish Chamber of Commerce, president Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik (BAPP), member of the board of trustees Club de Madrid, Member Dr. Karl Renner Institute, president Verein für Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung, member of the board of trustees Controversy In 1984, Gusenbauer, then leader of Austria's Young Socialists, caused controversy in Austria when he knelt and kissed the still-Communist tarmac at Moscow's Domodedovo airport – in mockery of Pope John Paul II. Paradise Papers In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism cited his name in the list of politicians named in the "Paradise Papers" allegations. Manafort indictment The 2018 February 16 indictment of Paul Manafort unsealed on 23 February as part of the Mueller special counsel investigation alleges that foreign politicians hypothesized to be Romano Prodi and Gusenbauer took payments exceeding $2m from Manafort to promote the case of his client, then-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich. See also Gusenbauer cabinet References External links |- 1960 births Living people 21st-century Chancellors of Austria University of Vienna alumni Columbia University fellows Chancellors of Austria Social Democratic