Leo McNeir

Before becoming a full-time writer, Leo McNeir was for over twenty years language consultant to the European Association of Local Government Chief Executives. In that capacity he edited twelve dictionaries in fifteen languages, the first one published by Cassell in 1993. He was the first professor of language policy at the European University for Local Government in Rome and also edited the official dictionaries of the National Assembly for Wales (English and Welsh), the Scottish Parliament (English and Gaelic) and a joint project for the Irish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly (English and Irish).

Leo and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra McNeir, live in a 300 year-old cottage in rural Northamptonshire.