Directorate Change

Aviva PLC
29 January 2004



News release


29 January 2004


                        AVIVA APPOINTS GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR


Aviva plc today announced the appointment of Andrew Moss as Group Finance
Director.


Andrew (45) is currently Director - Finance, Risk Management and Operations at
Lloyd's of London and has extensive international experience of the financial
services industry.  He has played a key role in successfully transforming the
Lloyd's business, including the move from three-year to one-year accounting and
managing the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy.


Before joining Lloyd's in September 2000, he held a number of senior
international management positions at HSBC during his 11 years with the company,
culminating in his appointment as Chief Financial Officer for the investment
bank and treasury businesses.


Richard Harvey, Aviva's group chief executive said: 'Andrew has the right
combination of skills and experience we're looking for, particularly given the
increasingly international nature of our business and I'm delighted he's decided
to join our management team.  His past successes give me every confidence that
he will make a significant contribution to the further development of Aviva as a
major international insurance group.'


Andrew will receive a salary of £440,000 per year.  He will become a main board
executive director of Aviva plc, subject to the necessary regulatory approvals,
and will join the company later in the year on a date to be determined.


Andrew is a Chartered Accountant, having trained as an accountant with Coopers
and Lybrand, and a Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.  He holds
a degree in law from Christ Church, Oxford, and is married with four children.

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Enquiries:


Media:

Hayley Stimpson, director of external affairs                [phone]

Sue Winston, head of group media relations                   [phone]

Alex Child-Villiers, Financial Dynamics                      [phone]


Analysts:

Steve Riley, investor relations director                     [phone]


Notes to editors


- Andrew Moss will be employed on a standard 12 month contract.  As a
result of his resignation from Lloyd's he will forfeit deferred incentive
payments to the value of £540,000.  These will be compensated for by Aviva
through the allocation of an equivalent amount in Aviva shares, vesting to him
on the same timescale as would have been the case at Lloyd's.

- Mike Biggs, the former group finance director, left the company on
31 December 2003.  As previously announced, Philip Twyman took on the
responsibility of the group finance director role from 1 January 2004 in
addition to his responsibility for Aviva's asset management business, Morley
Fund Management, pending the appointment of the group finance director.  Philip
Twyman will retire from the group at his normal retirement date of March 31
2004.


- You can download a photograph of Andrew Moss from the Aviva media
centre www.aviva.com/media or by clicking here.


- Aviva is one of the leading providers of life and pensions to Europe
with substantial positions in other markets around the world, making it the
world's seventh-largest insurance group based on gross world-wide premiums.


- Aviva's principal business activities are long-term savings, fund
management and general insurance, with world-wide premium income and retail
investment sales from continuing operations of £28 billion and assets under
management of more than £200 billion.

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