Matt Payne

Learning Services Manager

Matt is a Learning Services Manager in the Innovation Skills team. From October 2018 Matt will be leading on the Creative Hubs programme.

Prior to Nesta, Matt was the head of EU exit arts policy at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and has held various strategy and project management roles in local government and the arts and culture sectors.

He has managed the end to end delivery of major international exhibitions at the British Museum and was a key influencer of the Digital Economy Bill 2017.

Outside of work Matt enjoys painting and music production. He is also a keen cyclist, enjoys the outdoors and has a Ragdoll cat called Blue.