Career
Rogers served in Her Majesty Treasury, including as Private Secretary to Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 2003, Rogers was chosen to succeed Jeremy (later Sir Jeremy) Heywood as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. After three years in this role, Rogers left the service in 2006 to become Head of the United Kingdom Public Sector Group at Citigroup.
In 2010 Rogers transferred to be Head of the Public Sector Industry Group, United Kingdom and Ireland, at Barclays Capital from 2010 to 2011.
In 2012, Rogers returned to government 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" General’ s Office at Number 10, replacing Jon Cunliffe who had become the senior British diplomat at the European Union. On Cunliffe"s move to the Bank of England the next year, Rogers succeeded him again, moving to Brussels in 2013. As of 2015, Rogers was paid a salary of between £170,000 and £174,999 by the Foreign Office, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
Rogers was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.