Ivan Rogers is a senior British civil servant, currently 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.
Rogers had served as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, having been appointed in 2003 at the age of 43.
He was previously Director of Budget and Public Finances and Director, European Policy at HM Treasury, Chief of Staff to Sir Leon Brittan, Vice President of the European Commission and Private Secretary to Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was educated at Balliol College in the University of Oxford. He replaced former secretary Jeremy Heywood, who left to take up a post at Morgan Stanley, the American investment bank, at which point he was replaced by Jeremy Heywood.
On March 23, 2006 it was announced that Rogers would be leaving Downing Street to become senior government banker for the United Kingdom at Citigroup, the U.S. financial conglomerate and is a member of CitiGroup’s UK Banking and Broking Board. He is now a non-executive director to the board of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS