10 Facts About Ivan Rogers

Ivan Rogers served in the Treasury, including as Private Secretary, to Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Ivan Rogers 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, Ivan Rogers was chosen to succeed Jeremy Heywood as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

In 2010 Ivan Rogers transferred to be Head of the Public Sector Industry Group, UK and Ireland, at Barclays Capital from 2010 to 2011.

In 2012, Ivan 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, Ivan Rogers succeeded him again, moving to Brussels in 2013.

In December 2016, an internal memo Ivan Rogers had written suggesting difficulties for the agreement was leaked.

Ivan Rogers resigned on 3 January 2017, nine months ahead of the nominal end of his posting in October 2017.

Ivan Rogers was very critical of the strategy pursued by the British team in their negotiations with the EU following the triggering of Article 50.

Ivan Rogers was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2016 New Year Honours.