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D. Cameron Findlay is executive vice president and general counsel of Aon Corporation. As the company’s chief legal officer and a member of Aon’s senior management team Findlay leads Aon’s Global Law Department and manages myriad legal regulatory and government relations matters for Aon and its business units throughout the world.
Before joining Aon Findlay served from 2001 to 2003 as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor in the administration of President George W. Bush. In that capacity he acted as the number-two official and chief operating officer of a cabinet department with a $70 billion budget several operating agencies and 17 000 employees. Findlay was responsible for formulating the department’s budget overseeing major policy initiatives representing the department before Congress and the public and implementing the President's Management Agenda at DOL. While in government Findlay also served as President Bush’s appointee to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Before his service at the Department of Labor Findlay was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP one of the world’s largest law firms. From 1989 to 1992 he served in the administration of President George H.W. Bush both at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Chief of Staff and at the Department of Transportation as Counselor to the Secretary of Transportation.
Prior to that Findlay served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Findlay has been active with many civic and professional organizations. He serves on the Boards of Northwestern University the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Children’s Home and Aid Society. He also is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation and the Board of Visitors of Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences which he chairs. Under his leadership the Aon Law Department received an Employer of Choice Award from the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
Findlay received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Northwestern University his master’s degree with first-class honours from Oxford University which he attended as a Marshall Scholar and his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. | 