Sir Ivan Rogers KCMG |
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British Permanent Representative to the EU | |
In office 4 November 2013 – 3 January 2017 |
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Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
Minister |
William Hague Philip Hammond Boris Johnson |
Preceded by | Sir Jon Cunliffe |
Succeeded by | Sir Tim Barrow |
Prime Minister's Adviser for Europe and Global Issues |
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In office 2012–2013 |
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Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | Sir Jon Cunliffe |
Succeeded by | Tom Scholar |
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister |
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In office 2003–2006 |
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Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Sir Jeremy Heywood |
Succeeded by | Oliver Robbins |
Personal details | |
Born |
Mark Ivan Rogers 1960 (age 56–57) |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Sir Mark Ivan Rogers KCMG (born 1960) is a former senior British civil servant, who was the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 4 November 2013 until his resignation on 3 January 2017.
Rogers was educated at a grammar school in his hometown, the south-coast town of Bournemouth in Dorset, at which his father taught history. After a gap year in Bremen, in north-western Germany, he studied History for three years at Balliol College at the University of Oxford, followed by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. This was followed by another three years at Balliol, at which he pursued doctoral studies in the history of socio-biology and eugenic thinking on the political left.
Rogers applied for a place on the civil service’s ‘fast track’, and chose the Department of Health and Social Security. In 1992, he was seconded to the Treasury and did not return to his former department. He served in the Treasury, including as Private Secretary, to Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer. He then was seconded to the European Commission as Chief of Staff to Sir Leon Brittan, returning to be Director, European Strategy and Policy and later Director of Budget and Public Finances under Gordon Brown.
In 2003, Rogers was chosen to succeed Jeremy (later Sir Jeremy) Heywood as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. After three years in this role, Rogers left the civil service in 2006 to become Head of the UK Public Sector Group at Citigroup. In 2010 Rogers transferred to be Head of the Public Sector Industry Group, UK and Ireland, at Barclays Capital from 2010 to 2011.