Aon Consulting Hires Leader for South Korea

November 6, 2009

Opinion leader and Industry veteran Dr. Ki Ryung (Charlie) Kim to lead Korea business

SINGAPORE, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC), today announced that opinion leader and industry veteran Dr. Ki Ryung (Charlie) Kim has joined the firm as Chief Executive Officer of Aon Consulting Korea.

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In his new role, Kim will lead his team in expanding the solutions in health & benefits and human capital consulting in South Korea. In addition, he will be developing consulting solutions for Korean multinationals around the world.

"I am pleased to welcome Charlie to Aon Consulting," said Edouard Merette, Chief Executive Officer of Aon Consulting in Asia Pacific. "With a respected academic and industry expert joining our leadership team, I am confident Charlie will bring innovative solutions to the Korean market that will help clients achieve long-term value."

A well-known opinion leader in Korea in the area of HR management, Kim is a regular columnist with The Magazine of Human Resource Management. He joins Aon from Hay Group, where he was the Representative Director in Korea. Kim specializes in strategy development and execution, leadership, change management, organizational culture, and talent management. Prior to that, he was with Mercer as Worldwide Partner and the Representative Director for Mercer Korea.

Kim has a PhD and Master's degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is an Academic Professor with Le Cordon-Bleu Hospitality MBA, and an Advising Professor for the Federation of Korean Industries. He is also a Director at the Korea Academy of Leadership.

Based in Seoul, Kim joined Aon Consulting Oct. 1.

About Aon Consulting

Aon Consulting Worldwide is among the top global human capital consulting firms, with 2008 revenues of $1.358 billion and more than 6,300 professionals in 229 offices worldwide. Aon Consulting works with organizations to improve business performance and shape the workplace of the future through employee benefits, talent management and rewards strategies and solutions. Aon Consulting was named the best employee benefit consulting firm by the readers of Business Insurance magazine in 2006, 2007 and 2008. For more information on Aon, please visit www.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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