LONDON, 4 August 2009 Grant Foster has been appointed head of enterprise risk management (ERM) at Aon, the world’s largest insurance broker and risk management firm. Grant was recently a key member of the team that won a 2009 British Insurance Award for Risk Management for Aon’s Risk Detox product.

The ERM team, under Grant’s leadership, will continue to focus on supporting Aon’s insurance broking operations, in order to provide an end-to-end risk management programme for Aon’s clients.

Grant will be heading the UK team but will further integrate the UK into Aon’s pan-EMEA and global risk management for world-wide businesses.

Previously the UK head of general industries consulting for Det Norske Veritas, Grant is also a chartered engineer, holds PhD in the field of distributed systems modelling and a BSc (First Class) in Cybernetics and Mathematics from the University of Reading.

Grant commented: “This is a very exciting time to be heading up such a fantastic team and to be a part of a global business like Aon. Pandemics, financial crises and climate change, just as a few examples, really allow ERM to shine and show how powerful this type of risk management is. I am truly happy to be leading this team, at this time, at this company and look forward to the challenges ahead and growing this successful business.”

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Alexandra Lewis
020 7882 0541
Alexandra.lewis@aon.co.uk
http://aon.mediaroom.com

David Skapinker
David.skapinker@aon.co.uk
http://Aon.mediaroom.com

About Aon
Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 37,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 and 2008 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/.

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