section_path: Rotating BRICS presidency
section_name: Rotating BRICS presidency
paragraph_text: Rotating BRICS presidency
  
  Leaders' meetings (or leaders' summits) are held once a year on a rotating basis. The group at each summit elects one of the heads of state of the component countries to serve as President Pro Tempore of the BRICS. A number of ministerial meetings are held during the year, for example, between foreign ministers, finance ministers, central bank governors, trade ministers and energy ministers. Technical level meetings focus on project implementation and technical exchanges, such as the meeting of BRICS heads of national statistics offices. There are working groups on technology, culture, education, health etc. Specialized forums exist such as the BRICS Business Forum, and the BRICS Think Tank Council. The BRICS has neither a permanent seat or secretariat.
  
  In 2019, the President Pro Tempore position was held by the president of Brazil. The priorities of the Brazilian Pro Tempore Presidency for 2019 were the following: strengthening the cooperation in science, technology, and innovation, enhancement of the cooperation on digital economy, invigoration of cooperation on the fight against transnational crime —especially organized crime, money laundering, and drug trafficking, and rapprochement between the New Development Bank (NDB) and the BRICS Business Council. In 2024 BRICS President Pro Tempore was from Russia and their goals were: investing in BRICS countries to strengthen their economies, cooperating in the energy and environmental industries, helping with young children, and coming up with resolutions on migration and peacekeeping. Brazil has the current Pro Tempore Presidency in 2025.