Carolyn Payne is a Commissioning Editor at National Geographic. Commissions include the hit series Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist, Primal Survivor, Nazi Megastructures, Banged Up Abroad and Car SOS, and hit singles Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings, Drain Alcatraz, Drain the Oceans: WWII, Comet Catcher: The Rosetta Landing, Mission Saturn and Mission Pluto,
Before joining Nat Geo Carolyn was a freelance producer making award winning shows such as: BBC's World's Strictest Parents, and Nat Geo's The Witch Doctor Will See You Now, and Bafta winning BBC children's shows Operation Ouch and Election.