Compensation is a difficult management issue, not least due to the human element to it. Ray Everett. chief executive of Aon Hewitt in the Middle East, a position that he has held for the past year, and Asia-Pacific and Middle East and Africa regional head of McLagan (a division of Aon Hewitt focusing on financial services). Aon Hewitt is one of the world’s pre-eminent human resources consulting companies and there is a lot to learn from them in this series.