Ranald Munro

Major-General Ranald Torquil Ian Munro TD & bar (born 1960) is General counsel and company secretary for Chubb Insurance Europe as well as the most senior serving Reservist in the British Army and is currently serving as the Deputy Commander Land Forces (Reserves).

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 UK & Ireland in 1997 and then General counsel and company secretary for Chubb Insurance Europe in 2000.

Military
Munro was commissioned into the 10th (City of London) Parachute Battalion (Territorial Army) in 1988. 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.

As the Deputy Commander Land Forces, he is responsible for shaping the role of the Reserve as part of the British Army restucturing plan known as Army 2020 which includes doubling the size of the Army's reserve forces.