Grant Foster has been appointed head of enterprise risk management (ERM) at Aon, the insurance broker and risk management firm. Grant was recently a key member of the team that won a 2009 British Insurance Award for Risk Management for Aon’s Risk Detox product.
The ERM team, under Grant’s leadership, will continue to focus on supporting Aon’s insurance broking operations, in order to provide an end-to-end risk management programme for Aon’s clients.
Grant will be heading the UK team but will further integrate the UK into Aon’s pan-EMEA and global risk management for world-wide businesses.
Previously the UK head of general industries consulting for Det Norske Veritas, Grant is also a chartered engineer, holds PhD in the field of distributed systems modelling and a BSc (First Class) in Cybernetics and Mathematics from the University of Reading.
Grant commented: “This is a very exciting time to be heading up such a fantastic team and to be a part of a global business like Aon. Pandemics, financial crises and climate change, just as a few examples, really allow ERM to shine and show how powerful this type of risk management is. I am truly happy to be leading this team, at this time, at this company and look forward to the challenges ahead and growing this successful business.”
