MICHAEL RUNDELL is one of the directors of Lexicography MasterClass Ltd. He has been a professional lexicographer since 1980, working on a wide range of dictionaries. His special area is monolingual English dictionaries designed for learners. He has managed complex dictionary projects for a number of leading British publishers including Longman and Macmillan, and has been involved in the design and development of several major language corpora. His last project was Dante, a new lexical database for English (completed in September 2010), where he was (together with Sue Atkins) in charge of the database design, quality control and project management.