Ivan Rogers is a former British civil servant, latterly serving as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

The Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister is a senior official of the British Civil Service who acts as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The holder of this office was formerly the head of the Prime Minister's Office, during Tony Blair's...

, 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

HM Treasury

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, 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

University of Oxford

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. He replaced former secretary Jeremy Heywood

Jeremy Heywood

Jeremy John Heywood CB, CVO is a British civil servant. He is currently Permanent Secretary at Downing Street, having previously served as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister....

, who left to take up a post at Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley

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, 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

Citigroup

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, the U.S. financial conglomerate and is a member of CitiGroup

Citigroup

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’s UK Banking and Broking Board. He is now a non-executive director to the board of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS

External links

• 'Citibank hires Blair's top private secretary' at Yahoo!
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