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CHICAGO, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting, the human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), announced today the appointment of Edouard Merette as chief executive officer of Aon Consulting Asia Pacific. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) Merette was with Mercer Human Resource Consulting since 1984. During that time, he served as president, Asia Pacific, responsible for operations in 13 countries, and was a member of the Mercer Global Executive Committee. In addition, Merette directed efforts in Europe and Eastern Canada, and served as managing director in Asia. He began his career as a consultant in Montreal. "We are excited to have such a strong and proven leader join Aon Consulting," said Andrew Appel, chief executive officer of Aon Consulting Worldwide. "Edouard has a successful track record of more than 20 years in the human capital consulting industry, including significant leadership experience in the Asia Pacific region. The addition of Edouard is further proof that Aon is not only committed to building a world-class team, but that the industry's best want to be a part of Aon as well." "We welcome Edouard to Aon Consulting," said Bernard Fung, chairman and chief executive officer of Aon Asia Pacific. "He is the ideal person for this position, and I am confident he will have a tremendous impact, as Aon Consulting Asia Pacific works to provide even greater value to clients." Merette earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and actuarial sciences from Laval University, and he is a Fellow with the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries in the U.S. Merette is based in Singapore and will begin serving as chief executive officer of Aon Consulting Asia Pacific this winter. For more information, contact: Joe Micucci, Aon Consulting, 312-381-4786, About Aon Aon Corporation ( http://www.aon.com/ ) is a leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting, and specialty insurance underwriting. There are 47,000 employees working in Aon's 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Backed by broad resources, industry knowledge and technical expertise, Aon professionals help a wide range of clients develop effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon Consulting Worldwide ( http://www.aon.com/hcc ) is among the top global human capital consulting firms, with 2005 revenues of $1.255 billion and 6,800 professionals in 117 offices worldwide. Aon Consulting is reshaping the workplace of the future through benefits, talent management and rewards strategies and solutions. In August 2006, Aon Consulting was named the best employee benefit consulting firm by the readers of Business Insurance magazine. This press release contains certain statements related to future results, or states our intentions, beliefs and expectations or predictions for the future which are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from either historical or anticipated results depending on a variety of factors. Potential factors that could impact results include: general economic conditions in different countries in which we do business around the world, changes in global equity and fixed income markets that could affect the return on invested assets, fluctuations in exchange and interest rates that could influence revenue and expense, rating agency actions that could affect our ability to borrow funds, funding of our various pension plans, changes in the competitive environment, our ability to implement restructuring initiatives and other initiatives intended to yield cost savings, our ability to execute the stock repurchase program, our ability to execute the planned sale of the Aon Warranty Group, changes in commercial property and casualty markets and commercial premium rates that could impact revenues, changes in revenues and earnings due to the elimination of contingent commissions, other uncertainties surrounding a new compensation model, the impact of investigations brought by state attorneys general, state insurance regulators, federal prosecutors, and federal regulators, the impact of class actions and individual lawsuits including client class actions, securities class actions, derivative actions, and ERISA class actions, the cost of resolution of other contingent liabilities and loss contingencies, and the difference in ultimate paid claims in our underwriting companies from actuarial estimates. Further information concerning the Company and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the Company's financial results, is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Aon Corporation CONTACT: Joe Micucci, Aon Consulting, +1-312-381-4786, Web site: http://www.aon.com/

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