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. The group consists of the five countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. 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.

The group was formed as BRIC, including all of today's members minus South Africa. South Africa joined in the third year of the group's existence, 2011, forming BRICS.

Summit Year Host	Country
	Brazil	Russia	India	China	South Africa
1st 2009  Russia	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [1][2]	Dmitry Medvedev [1][2][3][4]	Manmohan Singh [1][2][3][4][5]	Hu Jintao [1][2][3][4]	N/A (Guest in 2010)
2nd 2010  Brazil
3rd 2011  China	Dilma Rousseff [3][4][5][6]				Jacob Zuma [3][4][5][6]
4th 2012  India
5th 2013  South Africa		Vladimir Putin [5][6]		Xi Jinping [note 1][5][6]
6th 2014  Brazil			Narendra Modi [6]
7th 2015  Russia
8th 2016  India	Michel Temer
9th 2017  China
10th 2018  South Africa					Cyril Ramaphosa
11th 2019  Brazil	Jair Bolsonaro

References

1. Kramer, Andrew E. "Emerging Economies Meet in Russia". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
2. "India, China to become equal partners". Press TV. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
3. Kashani, Sarwar. "BRICS seeks revamp in global monetary system". TwoCircles. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
4. "BRICS summit defends dialogue for Syria, Iran". NDTV Convergence. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
5. Isa, Mariam. "Brics Summit expected to establish development bank". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
6. "Modi Likely to Watch FIFA World Cup Final ahead of BRICS Summit". India West. Retrieved 19 June 2014.

Notes

1. The de jure head of government of China is the Premier, whose current holder is Li Keqiang. The President of China is legally a ceremonial office, but the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (de facto leader) has always held this office since 1993 except for the months of transition, and the current paramount leader is President Xi Jinping.