Mark Payne

Mark Payne has been a social science researcher for the past twenty years. With a doctorate in political science he started out his career at the Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank and for the past ten years has been working as an economist at the IRS. While the subject matter shifted between these jobs, the common theme focusing his attention has been a passion for asking interesting questions and using data and various statistical approaches to answering them. He has tutored mathematics and physics since 2014. He enjoys helping students to gain confidence in math and science and to discover more about its wide applicability in the world.