Ranald Munro

Ranald Munro
Born	1960
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1988 - present
Rank	Major-General
Battles/wars	Iraq War
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Territorial Decoration Volunteer Reserves Service Medal

Major-General Ranald Torquil Ian Munro, CBE, TD, VR (born 1960) is the Chief Legal Officer for SCOR Global P&C as well as the most senior serving reservist in the Ministry of Defence and is currently serving as the Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets).

Career

Civilian

Educated at Merchiston Castle School, Middlesex Polytechnic and the Polytechnic of Central London, Munro trained as a barrister at the Inns of Court School of Law and was called to the bar in 1986 before becoming a senior prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service.^[1] He then worked for International Computers (now Fujitsu) and L'Oréal UK before becoming General counsel and company secretary for Chubb Insurance company of Europe in 1997.^[2] He joined SCOR SE in 2015 as their Chief Legal Officer.^[2]

Military

Munro was commissioned into the 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Territorial Army) in 1986. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he became Chief Instructor to the London District Specialist Training Team in 1998.^[3] He went on to be Staff Officer responsible for Territorial Army operations and Training in 2001, commanding officer of Bristol University Officers Training Corps in 2002 and then full-time Chief of Military Operations (Operational Law) in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate in Baghdad in May 2005.^[3] On return to the UK he became part-time Colonel Territorial Army at the Directorate of Individual Training (Army) in October 2005, Deputy Commander 43rd (Wessex) Brigade in April 2008 and Colonel (Reserves) on the General Staff in January 2009.^[3] More recently, having been promoted to brigadier, he became Assistant Commander the 4th Division in November 2009, Assistant Commander Support Command in January 2012 and, having been promoted to major-general, Deputy Commander Land Forces (Reserves) later that year.^[3]

He now serves as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets), the senior tri-service reservist in the UK Armed Forces.^[4]

Munro was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours.^[5][6] He was succeeded by Brigadier Simon Brooks-Ward in October 2015.^[7]

Honours and Decorations

• Munro has received the following honours and decorations during his military career.

Ribbon	Description	Notes
	Order of the British Empire (CBE)	Military Division 2014
	Iraq Medal
	Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal	2002 UK Version of this Medal
	Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal	2012 UK Version of this Medal
	Territorial Decoration (TD)
	Volunteer Reserves Service Medal (VR)

• He Has Qualified to Wear the Parachutist Badge. And the Maroon Beret due to His Service with the Parachute Regiment.

References

1. "Ranald Munro: Chubb Insurance Company of Europe". The Lawyer. 2 August 2004. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
2. "Appointments at SCOR". SCOR. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
3. "Our patrons". Defence Medical Welfare Service. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
4. "Reserve Forces & Future Reserves 2020 Programme Update – Spring 2016" (PDF). Retrieved 2 November 2016.
5. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60895. p. b6. 14 June 2014.
6. "2014 Birthday Honours for service personnel and defence civilians". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
7. The Daily Telegraph (London), 2015, Senior army appointment, SECTION: FEATURES; Pg. 32, The Daily Telegraph (London), August 24 2015.