List of BRICS summit attendees

This is a list of representative leaders of BRICS states at each BRICS Summit since the group's inception in 2009.

BRICS holds an annual summit, which each state or government leader attends. Each year the heads of government take turns assuming the presidency, whose job it is to set the agenda for, and host, the annual summit.

In 2023, Sergey Lavrov represented Russia instead of Vladimir Putin, and in 2024, Mauro Vieira represented Brazil instead of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Top leaders of BRICS countries

• President of Brazil
• President of Russia
• Prime Minister of India
• General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
• President of South Africa
• President of Egypt
• Prime Minister of Ethiopia
• President of Iran
• President of the United Arab Emirates
• President of Indonesia

Summit Year, Host	Country
	Brazil	Russia	India	China	South Africa	Iran	Egypt	Ethiopia	UAE	Indonesia
1st 2009   Russia	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [1]	Dmitry Medvedev [1] [2] [3]	Manmohan Singh [1] [2] [3] [4]	Hu Jintao [1] [2] [3]	— (N/A)	— (N/A)	— (N/A)	— (N/A)	— (N/A)	— (N/A)
2nd 2010   Brazil
3rd 2011   China	Dilma Rousseff [2] [3] [4] [5]				Jacob Zuma [2] [3] [4] [5]
4th 2012   India
5th 2013   South Africa		Vladimir Putin [4] [5]		Xi Jinping [4] [5]
6th 2014   Brazil			Narendra Modi [5]
7th 2015   Russia
8th 2016   India	Michel Temer
9th 2017   China
10th 2018   South Africa					Cyril Ramaphosa
11th 2019   Brazil	Jair Bolsonaro
12th 2020   Russia [note 1]
13th 2021   India [note 1]
14th 2022   China [note 1]
15th 2023   South Africa	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Sergey Lavrov
16th 2024   Russia	Mauro Vieira	Vladimir Putin				Masoud Pezeshkian	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	Abiy Ahmed	Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

References

1. Kramer, Andrew E. (16 June 2009). "Emerging Economies Meet in Russia". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
2. Kashani, Sarwar (14 April 2011). "BRICS seeks revamp in global monetary system". TwoCircles. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
3. "BRICS summit defends dialogue for Syria, Iran". NDTV Convergence. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
4. Isa, Mariam. "Brics Summit expected to establish development bank" . Retrieved 19 June 2014.
5. "Modi Likely to Watch FIFA World Cup Final ahead of BRICS Summit". India West. Retrieved 19 June 2014.

Notes

1. Held virtually due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.