Aviva

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Aviva plc is the world’s sixth-largest insurance group and the largest insurance services provider in the UK.[1] It has 54,758 employees worldwide and on Fortune Global 500, they ranked 35 in 2005, 28 in 2006, 50 in 2007, 69 in 2008 and 221 in 2009.[2]


Healthcare

It is UK's third-largest private medical insurer, growing from having 30 employees in 1990 to employing 1,800 staff in 2010.

Health lobbying

Aviva Health employs lobbying and PR form Fleishman-Hillard to lobby for it.[3]

People

  • U.K. Life Peer, Colin Sharman, Lord Sharman of Redlynch, has been Chairman of Aviva PLC since January 2006 and a board member since January 2005.[4]
  • Andrew Moss, CEO
  • Sarah Cox, a Director at the Cabinet Office since 2007 was a Business Development Manager at Aviva CGNU Group from 2000 to 2001.[5]
  • Mary Francis, an independent non-executive director of Aviva PLC, is a former non-executive director of the Bank of England from 2001 to 2007.[6][7]
  • Sam White, group public policy director from November 2010 (announced 9 September 2010). He is a former special adviser to Alistair Darling at the Treasury, and also held special adviser roles at the Departments of Trade and Industry and Transport.[8]


Contact

St Helen's
1 Undershaft
London, EC3P 3DQ

Website: www.aviva.com

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Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Aviva website, group at a glance, accessed Nov 2010
  2. ↑ CNN, Fortune Global 500, accessed 07 April 2010.
  3. ↑ APPC register of interests to August 2010
  4. ↑ Aviva, Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE, accessed 07 April 2010.
  5. ↑ 'Cox, Sarah Elizabeth,' Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, Cox, Sarah Elizabeth, December 2008, accessed 24 March 2009.
  6. ↑ Bank of England, Annual Report 2007, accessed 07 April 2010.
  7. ↑ 'Francis, Mary Elizabeth,' Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, Francis, Mary Elizabeth, December 2008, accessed 24 March 2009.
  8. ↑ Aviva, Aviva appoints global public policy director, press release, 9 September 2010, (accessed 15 September 2010).