Directorate Change

Aviva PLC
03 December 2003



3 December 2003


                            AVIVA MANAGEMENT CHANGE


Aviva has previously announced Mike Biggs's resignation from his position as
group finance director and that he will leave the company on 31 December 2003.


The search for a successor is well underway and an announcement will be made in
due course.  Until an appointment is finalised, Philip Twyman, group executive
director, will take on the responsibility of the group finance director role
from 1 January 2004, in addition to his current responsibility for Morley Fund
Management.  He was group finance director for General Accident plc, a
predecessor company, from 1996 to 1998.


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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

•   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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