Ranald Munro

Education

University of Westminster.

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. He then worked for International Computers (now Fujitsu) and L"Oréal United Kingdom before becoming General counsel and company secretary for Chubb Insurance United Kingdom & 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 United Kingdom 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 restructuring plan known as Army 2020 which includes doubling the size of the Army"s reserve forces.

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

He was succeeded by Brigadier Simon Brooks-Ward in October 2015. Munro has received the following honours and decorations during his military career.

Achievements

• Munro has received the following honours and decorations during his military career. He Has Qualified to Wear the Parachutist Badge. And the Red Beret due to His Service with the Parachute Regiment.