Fernando Haddad (born 25 January 1960) is a Brazilian academic and politician. He was Mayor of São Paulo, Brazil's largest city, from 2013 to 2017. He was the Minister of Education from 2005 to 2012 in the cabinets of Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
Haddad was the Workers' Party candidate for President in the 2018 elections, replacing former president Lula, whose candidacy was banned by the Superior Electoral Court under the Clean Slate law. He lost the second round of the election on 28 October 2018 to Jair Bolsonaro.