Editing Aleksander Kwaśniewski (section)

==Post-presidency==

On 7 March 2006, Kwaśniewski was appointed Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership at [[Georgetown University]], where he teaches students in the [[School of Foreign Service|Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service]] about contemporary European politics, the trans-Atlantic relationship, and democratization in Central and Eastern Europe. He also teaches a course on political leadership, convened by Professor Carol Lancaster, with former Spanish Prime Minister [[José María Aznar]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=13238 |title=Former Polish President Joins SFS Faculty |access-date=8 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317011436/http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=13238 |archive-date=17 March 2006 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> He is also Chairman of the supervisory board of the [[International Centre for Policy Studies]] in Kyiv, Ukraine and a member of the International Honorary Council<ref>{{cite web |url=http://diplomats.pl/en/component/content/article/473.html |title=Aleksander Kwaśniewski  |website=diplomats.pl |access-date=2012-09-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202143035/http://diplomats.pl/en/component/content/article/473.html |archive-date=2 February 2014  }}</ref> of the European Academy of Diplomacy. In 2008 Aleksander Kwaśniewski became Chairman of the [[European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation]], a not-for-profit organization established to monitor [[Toleration|tolerance]] in Europe, prepare practical recommendations to governments and [[international organisation]]s on improving interreligious and interethnic relations on the continent. The organization is co-chaired by [[European Jewish Fund]] President [[Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor]]. Since June 2012 Kwaśniewski and [[Pat Cox]] lead a [[European Parliament]] monitoring mission in [[Ukraine]] to monitor the [[Criminal cases against Yulia Tymoshenko since 2010|criminal cases against Yulia Tymoshenko]], [[Yuriy Lutsenko]] and [[Valeriy Ivaschenko]].<ref>[http://www.interfax.co.uk/ukraine-news/ukraine-welcomes-prolongation-of-cox-kwasniewski-mission-until-fall-says-kozhara/ Ukraine welcomes prolongation of Cox-Kwasniewski mission until fall, says Kozhara], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (18 April 2013)<br />[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/145261.html Cox-Kwasniewski mission to visit Ukraine in late March, planning to visit Tymoshenko], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (19 March 2013)</ref> Since 2011, Kwaśniewski has served on the [[Concordia Summit|Leadership Council for Concordia]], a nonpartisan, nonprofit based in New York City focused on promoting effective public-private collaboration to create a more prosperous and sustainable future. Kwaśniewski was also involved with the EU talks with the Ukrainian government about the association agreement with the EU that the Ukrainian parliament failed to ratify in November 2013.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 21, 2013 |title=After Kyiv Snub, Kwasniewski Says EU-Ukraine Deal Is Off |url=https://nioxin.uk.com |work=nioxin.uk.com}}</ref> After the [[Euromaidan|Maidan unrest]] had installed the transitional government under [[Arseniy Yatsenyuk|Yatsenyuk]], who signed the EU association agreement for Ukraine in 2014, Kwaśniewski took up in a director's post in the gas company ″[[Burisma Holdings]] Limited″ which owns licenses for the major Ukrainian gas fields.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://burisma.com/board-of-directors/ |title=Board of Directors |website=burisma.com |access-date=2014-05-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514022640/http://burisma.com/board-of-directors/ |archive-date=14 May 2014  }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/biden-aleksander-kwasniewski-poland-europe-37424b8a0a994c1a935c5831643a84e3 |title=AP Interview: Ex-Polish president defends Biden and Burisma |website=apnews.com |author=Vanessa Gera |date=28 November 2019 |access-date=11 November 2023}}</ref>

In 2019, he became a Member of the [[International Advisory Council]] (IAC) to Uzbekistan. In 2020, he assumed the position of Chair of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Commission on Drugs.<ref name=":2" />

===Possible illegal lobbying on behalf of Paul Manafort===
In a plea agreement [[Trials of Paul Manafort|filed in United States Federal court]] on 14 September 2018, former Donald Trump campaign chair [[Paul Manafort]] admitted to organizing a group of former European heads of state to illegally lobby, starting in 2011, on behalf of then-Ukrainian president [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. The plea agreement describes one of the heads of state involved in this secret lobbying as a "former Polish President" who "was also a representative of the European Parliament with oversight responsibility for Ukraine."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/302-paul-manafort-court-documents/c44625ae1d687a0163b2/optimized/full.pdf#page=36 |title=Re: United States vs. Paul J. Manafort, Jr. |access-date=15 September 2018}}</ref> At least one press report claimed that Kwaśniewski was this former Polish President.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/2c4acbc2-b894-11e8-bbc3-ccd7de085ffe |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/2c4acbc2-b894-11e8-bbc3-ccd7de085ffe |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |title=Prosecutors expose dark arts of Manafort lobbying |newspaper=Financial Times |date=15 September 2018 |access-date=15 September 2018}}</ref>