Ivan Rogers

Sir Ivan Rogers
KCMG
British Permanent Representative to the EU
In office
4 November 2013 – 3 January 2017
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
In office
2012–2013
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Sir Jon Cunliffe
Succeeded by Tom Scholar
Principal Private Secretary
to the Prime Minister
In office
2003–2006
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Sir Jeremy Heywood
Succeeded by Oliver Robbins
Personal details
Born Mark Ivan Rogers
March 1960 (age 58)
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford

Sir Mark Ivan Rogers KCMG (born March 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.[1]

Education

Rogers was educated at a grammar school in his hometown, the south-coast town of Bournemouth in Dorset,[2] at which his father taught history.[2] 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, though he did not finish his degree.[2]

Career

Rogers successfully 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.[2] 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.[3]

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.[3]

In 2012, Rogers returned to the civil service as the Prime Minister's Adviser for Europe and Global Issues and the Head of the European and Global Issues Secretariat, based in the Prime Minister's Office at Number 10, replacing Jon Cunliffe who had become the senior British diplomat at the EU. On Cunliffe's move to the Bank of England the next year, Rogers succeeded him again, moving to Brussels in 2013.[4][5][6]

As of 2015, Rogers was paid a salary of between £170,000 and £174,999 by the Foreign Office, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[7]

Following the Brexit referendum in June 2016, Rogers became a key civil servant in the negotiations to leave.

Personal views of the EU and resignation

In December 2016, an internal memo Rogers had written suggesting difficulties for agreement was leaked.[8] According to this leaked memo, Sir Ivan privately held the view that a settlement between the UK and the European Union might not be reached for 10 years, if at all, which did not reflect the Government's view. Questions were raised in the press whether Downing Street could any longer have confidence in his advice.[9] He resigned on 3 January 2017,[1] nine months ahead of the nominal end of his posting in October 2017.

Personal life

Rogers was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2016 New Year Honours.[10]

Offices held

Government offices
Preceded by
Jeremy Heywood		 Principal Private Secretary
to the Prime Minister
2003–2006		 Succeeded by
Oliver Robbins
Preceded by
Sir Jon Cunliffe		 Prime Minister's Adviser,
European and Global Issues
2012–2013		 Succeeded by
Tom Scholar
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Sir Jon Cunliffe		 British Permanent Representative
to the European Union
2013–2017		 Succeeded by
Sir Tim Barrow

See also

Tim Barrow#Ambassadorships and EU work

References

  1. 1 2 Barker, Alex (3 January 2017). "Britain's EU ambassador resigns weeks before Brexit talks". Financial Times. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tim Jones (12 November 2013). "Ivan Rogers – Cameron's sherpa – Profile of UK's permanent representative". European Voice, Politico.EU. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  3. 1 2 "Sir Ivan Rogers KCMG – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  4. ↑ "Change of UK Permanent Representative to European Union – Press releases – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  5. ↑ "Ivan Rogers – Cameron's sherpa". POLITICO. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  6. ↑ "David Cameron chooses 'Europhile' Ivan Rogers to represent UK in". The Independent. 6 August 2013. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  7. ↑ "Senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2015 – GOV.UK". gov.uk. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  8. ↑ "Post-Brexit trade deal could take up to 10 years and still fail, warns UK's EU ambassador". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  9. ↑ "Sir Ivan Rogers led David Cameron to European doom. Why would Theresa May listen to him on Brexit?". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
  10. ↑ "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N4.
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