Ranald Munro

Air Vice-Marshal Ranald Torquil Ian Munro, CBE, TD, VR (born 1960) is the General Counsel for Lombard International Assurance, a life insurance company, as well as a senior officer serving in the Army Reserve and now the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.

Ranald Munro
Born	1960 (age 59–60)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Air Force (formerly Army Reserve)
Years of service	1988 - present
Rank	Air vice-marshal/Major-general
Battles/wars	Iraq War
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Territorial Decoration Volunteer Reserves Service Medal

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 was Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets), the senior tri-service reservist in the UK Armed Forces.[4] Munro became Commandant General Royal Auxiliary Air Force in the rank of Air Vice-Marshal with effect from 23 September 2019.[5]

Munro was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours.[6][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)

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. "Royal Air Force Senior Appointments". raf.mod.uk. Royal Air Force. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019. Major General R T I Munro CBE TD DL to be Commandant General Royal Auxiliary Air Force in the rank of Air Vice-Marshal with effect from 23 September 2019 in succession to Air Vice-Marshal the Lord Beaverbrook who has retired from the Service.
6. "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b6.
7. "2014 Birthday Honours for service personnel and defence civilians". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2015.

Military offices
Preceded by The Duke of Westminster	Deputy Commander Land Forces (Reserves) 2012–2015	Succeeded by Simon Brooks-Ward