The 12th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Ministerial Meeting. Arindam Bhattacharya, Senior Director, Department of Science and Technology, India; Elsayed Osman Hossameldin Mohammed Salah, Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Egypt; Daniel Almeida Filho, Deputy Minister of Technological Development and Innovation, Brazil; Nomalungelo Ghina, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, South Africa; Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education, Russian Federation; Farah Al Zarooni, Assistant Undersecretary of the UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology for Standardization and Technical Regulation; Jiachang Chen, Vice Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, China; Genet Teshome Jirru, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the Russian Federation; and Sajjad Ahadzadeh, President, Center for Progress and Development, Iran