Colonel Michael Ronald Lubbock, MBE, (31 May 1906 – March 1989) was a British military officer and businessman.
He graduated from Oxford University with the degree of Master of Arts in philosophy, political history and economics.
From 1927 to 1943 he had his first job in a London merchant bank; and then became executive assistant to the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, spending 1936–37 at the Canadian head office and travelling extensively throughout Canada, including the Western Arctic.
In 1945–46, after reaching the rank of colonel in the British Army, he became head of the UNRRA Mission (health, refugees, children, social welfare); and moved to UNRRA European headquarters in London for six months, before becoming the first paid staff member of UNICEF in Washington, D.C. in January 1947.
He left UNICEF in June to join the newly formed U.N. Appeal for Children, which he managed and developed in fourteen European countries in 1947–48.