Major-General (retired) Cameron Ross, CMM, CD, rmc

Colonel of the Regiment

Major-General (retired) Cameron (Cam) Ross proudly holds the honorary appointment of the Colonel of the Regiment of Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians).  Having retired in 2003 from active military service, his 35-year military career was primarily in command and operational appointments.  Formerly a UN Assistant Secretary General and senior UN official in Syria, he was Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel 1998-2000.  He also served with the UN in Cyprus (UNFICYP) during the 1974 war; in Angola (UNAVEM) as a Military Observer as well as the Chief of Staff during the 1993 war; and, at the UN HQ in New York. 

Senior Canadian Forces command appointments include Commander of Land Forces Atlantic Area (Halifax; 1997), Commander of the Combat Training Centre (Gagetown; 1996), Base Commander (Edmonton; 1995), and Commanding Officer of his armoured regiment, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians).  He has held staff appointments at Brigade, Army, and national joint staff levels including Director of Operations (J3 Ops) for the Canadian Forces and Director General International Security Policy where he oversaw Canada’s international multi/bi-lateral security relations. 

MGen (ret’d) Ross, the son of a Dieppe and Normandy veteran, Major-General Norman Ross of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, is a graduate of the Royal Military College.  He is a Commander within the Order of Military Merit (CMM) and is the recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Polish Order of Merit.  He is the President of HCR Security International Ltd., a private company which provides strategic security advice to governments and the private sector.  Since 2004, he has led strategic security reviews of nine Caribbean countries.  The latest has been a multi-phase review of the national security sector of Trinidad and Tobago covering, amongst other areas, the functioning of the National Security Council, national intelligence systems, national security plans, criminal justice reform, and the Defence Force. 

MGen (ret’d) Ross is Chairman of the Board of the Strathcona Society, an Executive Fellow of the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, a Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, a member of the Selection Committee of DND’s Security Defence Forum, Vice President (West) of the National Security Group, Director of General Magnetic International Inc., formerly Vice-President of International Relations of Emergo Canada of the Emergo Group, and formerly Senior Military Advisor EnCana.  He and his wife Patti reside in Victoria, British Columbia and are the very proud parents of two sons Angus and Hamish.