Ivan Rogers

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Sir Mark Ivan Rogers KCMG (* 1960 in Bournemouth ) is a senior British official , who until his resignation on January 3, 2017. the November 4th, 2014 Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union (English. Permanent Representatives to the European Union) was.

Life

Rogers studied at Balliol College , Oxford . He was in the British Treasury ( Treasury ) as private secretary to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke worked. He was later transferred to the European Commission as Leon Brittan's Chief of Staff and eventually became Director of European Strategy and Policy. Under Gordon Brown he was also director of state budget and public finance.

Followed in 2003 by Rogers Sir Jeremy John Heywood , Office of the Chief of Cabinet of Prime Minister Tony Blair after. After three years he moved into the private sector and became head of the public sector at Citigroup . From 2010 to 2011, Rogers headed the public industrial sector for Barclays Investment Bank in the UK and Ireland.

In 2012, Rogers returned to the civil service and became an advisor to the Prime Minister on Europe and Global Affairs. He was also Head of the Secretariat for European and Global Affairs. He succeeded Jon Cunliffe , who had become the highest ranking British diplomat in the EU. After Cunliffe moved to the Bank of England , Rogers was again his successor and in 2013 moved to the EU Commission in Brussels.

Rogers was an opponent of Brexit . In December 2016, an internal communication by Rogers was made public in which he criticized the Brexit negotiations, which is why Rogers himself came under fire. He resigned on January 3, 2017. His successor is the British EU ambassador Tim Barrow .

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Awards

Rogers was named Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) in the 2016 New Year Honors .

Individual evidence

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  6. Laura Hughes: Post-Brexit trade deal could take up to 10 years and still fail, warns UK's EU ambassador. In: The Telegraph. December 15, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  7. ^ Asa Bennett: Sir Ivan Rogers led David Cameron to European doom. Why would Theresa May listen to him on Brexit? In: The Telegraph. December 15, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  8. red / AFP: Tim Barrow is supposed to succeed Ivan Rogers. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. January 4, 2017, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  9. Tim Barrow is to become the new British EU ambassador. In: RP Online. January 4, 2017, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  10. Barrow becomes the new British EU ambassador. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine. January 4, 2017, accessed January 4, 2017 .
  11. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 61450, HMSO, London, December 30, 2015, p. N4 ( PDF , English).