Sir Mark Ivan Rogers KCMG (born March 1960) is a British former senior 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.
This was followed by another three years at Balliol, at which he pursued doctoral studies in the history of socio-biology and eugenic thinking on the political left, though he did not finish his degree.
[2] Rogers successfully applied for a place on the civil service's 'fast track', and chose the Department of Health and Social Security.
After three years in this role, Rogers left the civil service in 2006 to become Head of the UK Public Sector Group at Citigroup.
[11] In a lecture that Rogers delivered on 13 December 2018 at the University of Liverpool, he said that the EU was always adroit at reframing things that have already been agreed, such as the "backstop", in ways that "make the medicine slip down".