# 2025 G20 Johannesburg Summit

The G20 Johannesburg Summit will be the twentieth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a meeting of heads of state and government held from 22 to 23 November 2025. It will be the first G20 summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa and on the African continent. The summit will cost the South African government R691 million.

## Presidency

South Africa assumed the G20 presidency from 1 December 2024 to November 2025, approximately five years ahead of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 deadline.
There are high expectations that South Africa will lead a progressive, people-centred, development-oriented and solution-oriented presidency, in a fractured global geopolitical context, until it hands over the presidency to the United States on 1 December 2025.
South Africa’s participation in the G20 is guided by its four strategic foreign policy pillars (national interests, the African Agenda, South-South Cooperation and Multilateralism).

## Summit topic

For the G20 to make a meaningful contribution in addressing the polycrisis confronting the world, South Africa has adopted the theme “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability”.
This theme reflects South Africa’s intention to build on the efforts and successes of the last three G20 Presidencies of the Global South and to advance the development agenda.
Through solidarity, we seek to achieve a people-centred, development-oriented and inclusive future. In an interconnected world, the challenges facing one nation affect all nations. By promoting equality, we seek to ensure fair treatment, opportunities and progress for all people and nations, regardless of their economic status, gender, race, geographic location or other characteristics. Sustainability is about meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own.

## Agenda priorities

South Africa will continue to use the G20 as a premier forum for economic and financial cooperation, bringing together developed and developing countries, and emerging markets to find solutions to global challenges. During the 2024 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “we will put Africa’s development at the top of the agenda when we host the G20 in 2025.”
South Africa will use its G20 Presidency to advocate and mobilise support for developing economies in Africa and the Global South, building on the efforts and successes of the Indonesian, Indian and Brazilian Presidencies to champion the development agenda.
The South African G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level outcomes and priorities, which will be expressed in the work of the Sherpa and Finance Tracks

### High-level priorities

South Africa’s G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level deliverables, and priorities, which will find expression in the work of the Sherpa and Finance Tracks:
* Priority 1 – Inclusive economic growth, industrialisation, employment and reducing inequality
* Priority 2 – Food security
* Priority 3 – Artificial intelligence and innovation for sustainable development

## Participating leaders

* Argentina Javier Milei, President
* Australia Subject to the 2025 Australian federal election, Prime Minister
* Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President
* Canada Subject to the 2025 Canadian federal election, Prime Minister
* China Xi Jinping, President
* France Emmanuel Macron, President
* Germany Subject to 2025 German federal election, Chancellor
* India Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
* Indonesia Prabowo Subianto, President
* Italy Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister
* Japan Shigeru Ishiba, Prime Minister
* Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum, President
* Russia Vladimir Putin, President
* Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister
* South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, President (Host)
* South Korea Subject to the ongoing trial of the incumbent that potentially result in an 2025 election, President
* Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President
* United Kingdom Keir Starmer, Prime Minister
* United States Donald Trump, President
* European Union Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
* European Union Antonio Costa, President of the European Council
* African Union João Lourenço, Chairperson of the African Union

## Invited guests

The following country leaders have been invited to the summit:
* Denmark Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister
* Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President
* Finland Petteri Orpo, Prime Minister
* Ireland Micheál Martin, Taoiseach
* Netherlands Dick Schoof, Prime Minister
* New Zealand Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister
* Nigeria Bola Tinubu, President
* Norway Subject to 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election, Prime Minister
* Portugal Subject to 2025 Portuguese legislative election, Prime Minister
* Singapore Lawrence Wong, Prime Minister
* Spain Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister
* Switzerland Karin Keller-Sutter, President
* United Arab Emirates Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President

## Invited organizations

The following organization leaders have been invited to the summit:
* African Continental Free Trade Area Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General
* African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina, President
* Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa Chileshe Kapwepwe, Secretary General
* East African Community Veronica Nduva, Secretary General
* Economic Community of Central African States Ahmad Allam-Mi, Secretary General
* Economic Community of West African States 2025 Chairman
* Financial Stability Board Klaas Knot, Chair
* Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Qu Dongyu, Director-General
* International Labour Organization Gilbert Houngbo, Director-General
* International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director
* International Telecommunication Union Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-general
* New Development Bank Dilma Rousseff, President
* Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Mathias Cormann, Secretary General
* South Centre Carlos M. Correa, Executive Director
* Southern African Development Community Elias Magosi, Executive Secretary
* UN Trade and Development Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General
* United Nations António Guterres, Secretary-General
* United Nations Development Programme Achim Steiner, Administrator
* United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary
* United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Audrey Azoulay, Director-General
* World Bank Ajay Banga, President
* World Customs Organization Ian Saunders, Secretary General
* World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General
* World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General