Davor Bernardić (born 5 January 1980[1]) is a Croatian physicist and politician who served as the president of the Social Democratic Party from 2016 to 2020.

After finishing high school, Bernardić enrolled in the Zagreb Faculty of Science and since he was one of the best students he got a Nacional weekly scholarship which was handed to him by prime minister Ivica Račan.

From 2008 to 2010, Bernardić served as president of the party's Youth Forum, and from 2008 to 2012 as member of the SDP's main board.

[6] Bernardić got involved in national politics in 2008 when he became MP by replacing Milan Bandić who was at the time still the SDP member.

[11][12] After the election, he left the Social Democrats and since August 2024, he is a candidate for mayor of Zagreb, running on an independent platform.

Bernardić is a Roman Catholic who believes that the faith is a personal matter, and that everyone should be free to express it in, according to themselves, the most appropriate manner, adding that social democrats should stand for solidarity, human dignity and equality "which are the values on which Christian doctrine is based."