Ranald Munro

Air Vice-Marshal Ranald Torquil Ian Munro, (born 1960) is a general counsel and company secretary; he was a senior officer in the Army Reserve before transferring to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.

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 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. 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. Munro became Commandant General Royal Auxiliary Air Force in the rank of air vice-marshal with effect from 23 September 2019. His service was extended for two years in 2023, and he was appointed an aide-de-camp to King Charles III on 6 December 2024.

Munro was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2023 Birthday Honours.