Jaques Wagner is a Brazilian politician who was Governor of Bahia from 2007 to 2015 and Minister of Defence 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, as well as the Central Única dos Trabalhadores, a union which has organized more than seven million members. He won reelection in the 2010 Bahia gubernatorial election.
Since 2019, he serves as a Senator for the state of Bahia.