Jovo Bakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јово Бакић; born 23 March 1970) is a Serbian sociologist, political activist, and an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

Bakić defended his doctoral dissertation "Development of Interpretation of the Process of the Disappearance of Yugoslavia" at the Department of Sociology at the Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 2009.

[3] Bakić's vision for the new party was such that he argued for a left-libertarian movement based on secularism, democracy, anti-capitalism, internationalism, and opposition to NATO expansion.

[3] In response to Bakić's disagreement, Stefanović said that anyone who accepted the party's program should qualify as a member, regardless of their previous political affiliations.

[5] As the main initiator of the reorganization of the SDU, as well unification with the other minor Serbian leftist, labour and student organizations, and the merger of the SDU party into the Party of the Radical Left (PRL), in which he continued his political activities.