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]

Political relationships

  • Lord Colin Sharman, Chairman. Lord Sharman of Redlynch, a Lib Dem peer and former spokesperson for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (8 Jan 2009 to 11 May 2010) has been Chairman of Aviva since January 2006 and a board member since January 2005.[5]
  • Sam White, Group Public Policy Director from November 2010 (announced 9 September 2010). White was a former special adviser to Alistair Darling, then at the Treasury, and also held special adviser roles at the Departments of Trade and Industry and Transport.[6]White has responsibility for global public policy, ‘regulatory agenda and strategy’ across its core markets of the UK and Europe, as well as North America and Asia.[7]
  • Tracey Crouch, former head of public affairs at Aviva. Crouch was elected as a Conservative MP in the 2010 general election. In May Crouch lobbied the government not to scrap the Insurance Industry Working Group, which her former boss, Andrew Moss co-chairs[8]
  • Sarah Cox, ex-Business Development Manager at Aviva CGNU Group from 2000 to 2001. She has been a director at the Cabinet Office since 2007.[9]


Contact

St Helen's
1 Undershaft
London, EC3P 3DQ

Website: www.aviva.com


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. ↑ Jonathan Swift, Darling: insurance industry facing increasingly "challenging" global market, Post, 27 Jul 2009
  5. ↑ Aviva, Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE, accessed 07 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Aviva, Aviva appoints global public policy director, press release, 9 September 2010, (accessed 15 September 2010).
  7. ↑ Public Affairs News, October 2010
  8. ↑ Amy Ellis, Ex-Aviva public affairs head urges Tory colleagues not to scrap IIWG, Post, 20 May 2010
  9. ↑ '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.
  10. ↑ Bank of England, Annual Report 2007, accessed 07 April 2010.
  11. ↑ '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.