Years of service 1988 - present Rank Major general Battles/wars Iraq War Service/branch British Army | Name Ranald Munro Allegiance United Kingdom Battles and wars Iraq War | |
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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 General Counsel for Lombard International Assurance, a leading global life insurance-based wealth solutions provider, 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).
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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. 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. He joined SCOR SE in 2015 as their Chief Legal Officer.
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. 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. 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. 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.
He now serves as Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets), the senior tri-service reservist in the UK Armed Forces.
Munro was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours. He was succeeded by Brigadier Simon Brooks-Ward in October 2015.