Jaques Wagner

Jaques Wagner
Senator for Bahia
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2019
Preceded by	Roberto Muniz
Ministerial positions Chief of Staff of the Presidency In office 2 October 2015 – 16 March 2016 President Dilma Rousseff Preceded by Aloizio Mercadante Succeeded by Eliseu Padilha Minister of Defence In office 1 January 2015 – 2 October 2015 President Dilma Rousseff Preceded by Celso Amorim Succeeded by Aldo Rebelo Minister of Institutional Affairs In office 20 July 2005 – 31 March 2006 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Preceded by Aldo Rebelo Succeeded by Tarso Genro Minister of Labour and Employment In office 1 January 2003 – 23 January 2004 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Preceded by Paulo Jobim Filho Succeeded by Ricardo Berzoini
50th Governor of Bahia
In office 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2014
Vice Governor	Edmundo Santos (2007–2010) Otto Alencar (2011–2014)
Preceded by	Paulo Souto
Succeeded by	Rui Costa
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 February 1991 – 1 January 2003
Constituency	Bahia
Personal details
Born	(1951-03-16) 16 March 1951 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Party	PT (since 1980)
Spouse	Fátima Mendonça ​ (m. 1990)​
Alma mater	Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (dropped out)

Jaques Wagner (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʒaks ˈvaɡneʁ]; born 16 March 1951) is a Brazilian politician who was Governor of Bahia from 2007 to 2015¹ and Minister of Defence² in 2015.

Wagner, whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. In his youth, he was a member of the Labor Zionist youth organization Habonim Dror. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT), as well as the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), a union which has organized more than seven million members. He won reelection in the 2010 Bahia gubernatorial election.³⁴

Since 2019, he serves as a Senator for the state of Bahia.⁵