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.

Summit Year, Host	Country
	Brazil	Russia	India	China	South Africa
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)
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