Ivan Rogers

Vorlage:Use dmy dates Vorlage:Use British English Vorlage:Infobox officeholder Sir Mark Ivan Rogers KCMG (born 1960) is a 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]

Career

Rogers served in HM 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.[2]

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.[2]

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.[3][4][5]

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

Promoting personal views above his government's policy and Brexit referendum mandate; resignation

In December 2016, an internal memo Rogers had written suggesting difficulties for agreement was leaked,[6] which led to significant criticism of him. Press comment noted Sir Ivan's publicly known view that Brexit might not happen for 10 years; it was doubted in the press whether Downing Street could any longer have confidence in his advice. [7] He resigned in January 2017,[1] nine months ahead of the nominal end of his posting in October 2017.

Distances himself from his ministerial superiors

In January 2017 Ivan Rogers handed in his resignation, unusually for a civil servant expressing scathing personal views about the ministers whose directives he had ostensibly been commissioned to serve, calling on his colleagues to challenge "muddled thinking and...speak truth to power".[8]

Personal life

Rogers was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.

Rogers was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2016 New Year Honours.[9]

Offices held

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References

  1. ↑ a b Alex Barker: Britain’s EU ambassador resigns weeks before Brexit talks. In: Financial Times. 3. Januar 2017, abgerufen am 3. Januar 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Sir Ivan Rogers KCMG - GOV.UK. In: www.gov.uk. Abgerufen am 19. März 2016.
  3. ↑ Change of UK Permanent Representative to European Union - Press releases - GOV.UK. In: www.gov.uk. Abgerufen am 3. Januar 2017.
  4. ↑ Ivan Rogers – Cameron’s sherpa In: POLITICO, 11. Dezember 2013. Abgerufen am 3. Januar 2017 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  5. ↑ David Cameron chooses ‘Europhile’ Ivan Rogers to represent UK in In: The Independent, 6. August 2013. Abgerufen im 3 January 2017 (britisches Englisch). 
  6. ↑ Post-Brexit trade deal could take up to 10 years and still fail, warns UK's EU ambassador In: The Telegraph. Abgerufen im 3 January 2017 
  7. ↑ Sir Ivan Rogers led David Cameron to European doom. Why would Theresa May listen to him on Brexit? In: The Telegraph. Abgerufen im 3 January 2017 
  8. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-theresa-may-eu-ambassador-resignation-sir-ivan-rogers-deal-hopes-brussels-europe-a7507561.html
  9. ↑ Vorlage:LondonGazette
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