Ms. Bousfield succeeds Bill Robertson who has decided to leave AEGON following a career spanning ten years in a variety of roles in Edinburgh and The Hague. Ms. Bousfield began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she worked with clients in the UK insurance and investment management industry, including an assignment in the United States, from 1990 to 2001. At Swiss Re, she was Chief Financial Officer for the UK Life & Health business and for the UK, Ireland and Africa Region prior to assuming a Group role.

Ms. Bousfield graduated in Statistics from the University of St. Andrews and
completed the Advanced Management Program at leading French management school INSEAD in 2009.

Jan Nooitgedagt, Member of the Management Board and AEGON’s CFO said, “We are delighted to have attracted a person of Clare Bousfield’s caliber. Her broad international experience in finance and the insurance sector will be invaluable as we adapt to the changing landscape for our business. Clare’s appointment, together with that of the newly-appointed Chief Operating Officer Adrian Grace and newly-appointed Chief Risk Officer Charles Garthwaite, comprises a strong team in the UK under the leadership of Otto Thoresen. We are grateful to Bill Robertson for his many years of service and innumerable contributions to AEGON during the past ten years. We wish him every success in his new endeavors.”

Clare Bousfield said, “I am delighted to be joining AEGON UK in the role of
CFO. It’s an important time for the insurance sector with a changing economic and regulatory environment and I’m looking forward to working with the team to make the most of the opportunities ahead.”

Mr. Streppel, who has served as CFO since 1998 and a member of the Executive Board since 2000, will retire from AEGON at the next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in line with AEGON’s retirement policy for Executive Board members.

Mr. Nooitgedagt, age 55 and a Dutch national, is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Dutch and Belgian firms of Ernst & Young. Mr. Nooitgedagt will bring considerable experience to his new post, having served as chairman of the Financial Services sector group of Ernst & Young from 2000 until 2005. He became a partner of Ernst & Young Accountants in 1989.

“I am excited and honored by the prospect of joining AEGON as CFO,” said Mr. Nooitgedagt. “These are particularly interesting times to join a global insurance company and I look forward to building on the solid platform that has been established in recent years.”

Mr. Nooitgedagt’s appointment is subject to the standard procedure of having to be approved by the Dutch Central Bank.

As an international life insurance, pension and investment company based in The Hague, AEGON has businesses in over twenty markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia. AEGON companies employ almost 32,000 people and have over 40 million customers across the globe.