This is a list of state or government leaders of the BRICS member countries who have represented their countries at each BRICS summit since the group was established in 2009 . The group consists of five countries: Brazil , Russia , India , China and South Africa . BRICS holds an annual summit that is attended by all state or government leaders. Each year, heads of government take turns taking over as chairman, whose job it is to approve the agenda. Also, the country represented by the chairman hosts the organization’s summit in the same year.
The group was originally created as BRIC ( Brazil , Russia , India , China ). In the third year of the group's existence (in 2011 ), South Africa joined it, thereby forming the BRICS .
The data presented in the list are sorted in the order of the BRICS summits.
| Summits | A country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Brazil |  Russia |  India |  China |  South Africa | |
| I BRIC Summit 2009 |  Luis Inacio Lula da Silva [1] [2] |  Dmitry Medvedev [1] [2] [3] [4] |  Manmohan Singh [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] |  Hu Jintao [1] [2] [3] [4] | - |
| II BRIC Summit 2010 | |||||
| III BRICS Summit 2011 |  Dilma Roussef [3] [4] [5] [6] |  Jacob Zuma [3] [4] [5] [6] | |||
| IV BRICS Summit 2012 | |||||
| V BRICS Summit 2013 |  Vladimir Putin [5] [6] |  Xi Jinping [5] [6] | |||
| VI BRICS Summit 2014 |  Narendra Modi [6] | ||||
| VII BRICS Summit 2015 | |||||
| VIII BRICS Summit 2016 |  Michelle Temer | ||||
| IX BRICS Summit 2017 | |||||
| X BRICS Summit 2018 |  Cyril Ramaphos | ||||
| XI BRICS Summit 2019 |  Jair Bolsonaru | ||||
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Andrew E. Kramer. Emerging Economies Meet in Russia . The New York Times (16 June 2009). Date of treatment March 3, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 India, China to become equal partners . Press TV (April 16, 2010). Date of treatment March 3, 2015. Archived July 14, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Sarwar Kashani. BRICS seeks revamp in global monetary system . TwoCircles (April 14, 2011). Date of treatment March 3, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 BRICS summit defends dialogue for Syria, Iran . NDTV Convergence (March 29, 2009). Date of treatment March 3, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Mariam Isa. Brics Summit expected to establish development bank . BDLive (March 24, 2013). Date of treatment March 3, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Modi Likely to Watch FIFA World Cup Final ahead of BRICS Summit . India West (17 June 2014). Date of treatment March 3, 2015.