12/10/2018
Sir Mark Rogers KCMG 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 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 become the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
In 2006 Rogers left the civil service and became Head of the UK Public Sector Group at Citigroup. After four years he transferred to be Head of the Public Sector Industry Group, UK and Ireland, at Barclays Capital.
Rogers returned to the civil service in 2012 as the Prime Minister's Adviser for Europe and Global Issues and the Head of the European and Global Issues Secretariat. He was 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 following year, Rogers succeeded him again, moving to Brussels in 2013.
Rogers became a key civil servant in the negotiations to leave the EU after the June 2016 Brexit referendum.
I guess, what this means is, Sir Mark Rogers is extremely well qualified to comment on the issues surrounding the EU and Brexit.
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