Ivan Bauer

Ivan Bauer (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Бауер; born November 28, 1967) is a politician, academic, and media personality in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia for most of the time since 2012, with a short interruption in 2016. Bauer as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS).

Bauer was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. His party biography indicates that he is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade and holds a master of economic sciences degree from Singidunum University. His Ph.D. thesis is entitled, "Digital marketing techniques and perspectives of their application in Serbia." Since 2008, he has taught digital marketing at Singidunum. Bauer has also written several newspaper articles and hosted the popular television quiz shows Muzička slagalica and Sam protiv svih.

Bauer became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia in 2010. For the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, the SDPS joined the Choice for a Better Life electoral alliance led by Boris Tadić's Democratic Party. Bauer received the eighty-third position on the alliance's electoral list, which won sixty-seven mandates. He was not immediately declared elected but was able to take his seat in the assembly on July 30, 2012, after SDPS leader Rasim Ljajić resigned from parliament to take a cabinet position in a new coalition government led by Ivica Dačić.

The SDPS joined the Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list led by the Serbian Progressive Party for the 2014 parliamentary election. Bauer received the fortieth position on the list and was returned for a second term when the list won a landslide victory. For the 2016 election, he received the 235th position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list. This low placement virtually ensured that he would not be elected outright on election day; nonetheless, he was able to begin a third term in the legislature on August 11, 2016, after Ljajić once again resigned his assembly seat to take a cabinet post.

A photogenic figure, Bauer has often served as a public spokesperson for the SDPS, including in its proposals for electoral reform in 2013. His parliamentary biography indicates that member of the parliamentary committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a deputy member of the committees on European Integration and on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.