AOC Aon Corp.

CHICAGO, March 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting, the human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE:AOC), today announced three appointments in its Public Sector practice, comprised of the State and Local Government (SALG) and Federal Government practice groups. The Public Sector practice provides services to clients in all areas of human capital consulting, including health and welfare, retirement, talent management, and human resources outsourcing. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041215/CGW049LOGO ) Phil Peterson will be the Public Sector National Practice Leader. Peterson joined Aon in 1987 and has expertise in the strategic planning, design and administration of defined benefit and international retirement plans, and in the valuation of equity-based compensation. He formerly managed the retirement and equity-based compensation practices in Aon's Philadelphia office. In his new role, Peterson will be responsible for managing and expanding Aon Consulting's presence in all areas of the Public Sector practice, with a focus on assisting clients with the new Government Accounting Standard Board rules for Other Post Employment Benefits. Peterson will be located in Philadelphia. Cecelia Evans will be the Federal Sector Practice Leader. New to Aon, she has 15 years of experience in federal human capital consulting. Evans formerly worked for Monster Government Solutions where she led the consulting solutions practice that provided talent assessment and selection offerings for federal clients. Evans will be responsible for developing new client and partner relationships and expanding Aon Consulting's presence in the federal sector. Evans will be based in Washington, D.C. William "Flick" Fornia will be the lead state retirement system actuary. New to Aon, Fornia has more than 27 years of consulting and actuarial experience. He has served as lead actuary for more than a dozen state retirement systems and numerous local systems, and he will be responsible for expanding Aon Consulting's presence in the state and local government retirement sector. Fornia will be based in Denver. Media contact: Sara Carlson 312-381-5045 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 43,000 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 2006 revenues of $1.282 billion and 6,500 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 obtain regulatory or legislative changes to permit continuous sales of our supplemental Medicare health product, 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, ERISA class actions, the impact of the analysis of practices relating to stock options, 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: Sara Carlson, Aon Corporation, +1-312-381-5045, or Web site: http://www.aon.com/ http://www.aon.com/hcc

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