diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8942c48d1..a59298fcb 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ BugReports: https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 ByteCompile: TRUE
 Authors@R: c(
-  person("Matt","Dowle",           role=c("aut","cre"), email="mattjdowle@gmail.com"),
+  person("Tyson","Barrett",        role=c("aut","cre"), email="t.barrett88@gmail.com"),
+  person("Matt","Dowle",           role="aut",          email="mattjdowle@gmail.com"),
   person("Arun","Srinivasan",      role="aut",          email="asrini@pm.me"),
   person("Jan","Gorecki",          role="ctb"),
   person("Michael","Chirico",      role="ctb"),
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@ Authors@R: c(
   person("Davis","Vaughan",        role="ctb"),
   person("Toby","Hocking",         role="ctb"),
   person("Leonardo","Silvestri",   role="ctb"),
-  person("Tyson","Barrett",        role="ctb"),
   person("Jim","Hester",           role="ctb"),
   person("Anthony","Damico",       role="ctb"),
   person("Sebastian","Freundt",    role="ctb"),